ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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From birth to premature death it is impossible to eliminate the acute cruelty and suffering inherent in modern farming. Pigs are kept indoors, forced to exist in the heat and squalor of sweat-boxes, where, restricted by iron bars, unable to move or turn around, they are chained by the neck. Calves are thrust into crates where they stay for their fourteen weeks of life on slats, unable to turn around. Battery hens are crowded into cages where it is impossible to move. In darkness, they see the light of day for the first time as they are bundled into crates to be taken to slaughter.
A quotation from Farm and Home, May 1885 is true today:
"Mercenary motives and mismanagement cause most of the ailments of animals of the farm."
Modern farm animals suffer: unnatural interference with the breeding rhythm of nature, deprivation of contact between mothers and their offspring, of suckling which is important to health, of their mothers' milk in favour of substitution of chemical imitations, and of exercise.