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ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2008) — Researchers at the UC, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have manifested new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors.
A recent investigation into industrialized agriculture feeding practices has revealed some disturbing information of which many may not be aware. Commercial animal husbandry practices often involve feeding livestock mass amounts of animal waste, including chicken litter, which contains chicken feces, bedding, feathers, and other unknown residue.
tax it like tobacco.tax it even higher to get the behavior you wish. my elk in the freezer and I will never notice.nor my baccy plants. glad I abandoned this silly society.
The preemptive, constant feeding of antibiotics to prevent disease. Humans consuming dairy and meat products from factory farms may develop immunities to antibiotics and thus lose the ability to fight certain strains of bacteria.
Tightly controlled light cycles to simulate longer or shorter days. This confuses an animal's body and forces an unnatural growth response.
Altering animals' bodies to prevent them from acting out on the aggression and anxiety caused by living in such extreme confinement.
Forcing breeding animals to reproduce at unnaturally accelerated rates, causing them exhaustion, stress and early deaths.
Rough transportation of livestock to slaughterhouses, after which sick or injured animals who fell or died on the way (referred to as "downers") are forced onto slaughter trucks―often with a bulldozer.
God forbid you should do something healthy and ecologically positive.
Yes, it's your right as an American to eat an entire cow and sh*t all over God's green Earth, but doing so because you think its some perverse expression of your independence and freedom is perverse.
...and all this while I've been eating it because I LIKE IT.
The preemptive, constant feeding of antibiotics to prevent disease. Humans consuming dairy and meat products from factory farms may develop immunities to antibiotics and thus lose the ability to fight certain strains of bacteria.
Tightly controlled light cycles to simulate longer or shorter days. This confuses an animal's body and forces an unnatural growth response.
Altering animals' bodies to prevent them from acting out on the aggression and anxiety caused by living in such extreme confinement.
Forcing breeding animals to reproduce at unnaturally accelerated rates, causing them exhaustion, stress and early deaths.
Rough transportation of livestock to slaughterhouses, after which sick or injured animals who fell or died on the way (referred to as "downers") are forced onto slaughter trucks―often with a bulldozer.
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I'm going to eat it, that doesn't get much worse then that.
Losing a limb is minor when you are going to die anyway.
Of coarse, that too will eventually be outlawed if you keep letting them take baby steps to ending your freedoms.
Ain't that the truth. hunting gets harder and harder every year. More and more hoops to jump through to get a license or a place to hunt.
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