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It’s Tuesday, November 20.

The poultry industry is responsible for the death of 65 billion chickens every year, making chickens the most killed land animal on Earth. Their lives are truly heartbreaking. They begin and end their lives on a farm, often without ever seeing the light of day.

Chickens are well-hidden from the general public. They reach consumers without even a whisper of the suffering they’ve endured at the hands of chicken farmers. Labels read cage-free, even humane, but don’t be misled. Chicken is not cruelty-free. By sheer magnitude, factory farmed chicken represents one of the cruelest and most widely accepted mistreatments of animals. And there’s something you can do about it.

Read more of Poultry Farming: The Shocking Reality of a Factory Farm Chicken.

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Your Five-A-Day

  1. 👊 Animal rights protesters occupied a Salt Lake City Whole Foods over the weekend. Police were called to the scene to monitor the situation. No arrests were reported. Imagine. Activists flood a supermarket with signs that read “Being vegan aligns my actions with my values” and “Animal liberation now” while customers fumble for their shopping lists. [FOX 13]
  2. This disturbing 18-minute video from an undercover PETA investigation shows sheep being kicked by workers during shearing. Collected from 49 different English and Scottish farms, the footage shows that animal abuse is an industry-wide problem, despite what sheering operations want us to think. Stand up for sheep and take wool products off your holiday shopping list. [Guardian]
  3. 🌱 Vegan foods are nearly 20 times more efficient to grow than animals. If we replaced all animal products with vegan ones today, we would have enough food to feed 350 million more people. ICYMI the world’s population could reach 10 billion as soon as 2050. The future is vegan, my friend. [LIVEKINDLY]
  4. ✌️ Canada just invested $150 million in plant-based protein to help meet North America’s growing demand for meat alternatives. The move is projected to add 4,500 jobs and $4.5 billion to Canada's economy over the next 10 years. [Cision Newswire]
  5. 💗 YAY! Beyond Meat is going public. The plant-based meat maker famously served at TGI Fridays filed paperwork with Nasdaq with an initial public offering of $100 million. Look out! Their symbol will be BYND. [CNN]

Read This Book

Veganism is shaping up to be the ethical fight of the century. Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism (Routledge 2018) is a brilliant tribute to the fight ahead, edited by Clair Linzey and Andrew Linzey of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

Finally, arguing for the end of animal suffering is getting the time and space it deserves. There really is not a single topic more ethically frustrating and important to talk about. Trillions of animals are killed for food every year. How do we continue to ignore the loss of life on such a massive scale?

Ignorance is not bliss—not for animals. And while public protest, through things like open rescues, marches, and petitions, stands up to the cruel systems causing animals to suffer, there is another form a protest that hits even closer to home. Given the choice, what we eat is an ethical dilemma that most of us go through life never talking about.

Read the full review of Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism.
 
 


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