| Pain on Your Plate |
| Part VI -- Life and Death on the Factory Farm |
Hamburgers are not picked by Ronald McDonald from the "hamburger patch."
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Hamburgers are the remains of living, feeling, innocent beings who are imprisoned for life
in horrible conditions and brutally murdered for you.
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Animals raised for human consumption are not treated humanely.
The Animal Welfare Act specifically excludes animals intended for use as food from its regulations.
Legally, you can be as cruel as you like to an animal, provided it's going to be eaten!
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The vast majority of animals raised for food are penned up in intolerable conditions...
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...in which they are denied freedom of movement in hopelessly overcrowded cages or stalls where they never see the light of day.
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- Their offspring are stolen from them.
- Their bodies are painfully mutilated.
- They are fed unnatural diets laced with drugs.
- And their artificial environment is constantly manipulated in an effort to make them produce more profit.
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Their deaths are often excrutiatingly painful ordeals.
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This is particularly true in Kosher rituals in which the animal is slowly bled to death after cutting its throat.
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