scholars, public intellectuals and journalist speaking out against such corporate farming. One such powerful protest was the publication "Dominion" by Mathew Scully, a leading conservative journalist. The book is a comprehensive coverage and interrogation of all forms of animal cruelties. The question Scully poses to the public is:"Can glorious man peer into these places of stinking, nightmarish bedlam, down to the creatures that creepeth therein, into their brutish hearts to grasp their suffering? Not only can we grasp it-it is our own worst nightmare." There is a moral urgency in Scully's message:"What makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat." Scully also gave a detailed report in the book of his visit to the Smithfield owned factory farms in Virginia. They are the world's largest producer of pigs (from raising the animals to packing plant as well as advertising). Here, animal farms are not farms but metal and concrete warehouses identified only by numbers that resemble concentration camps. Sentient beings are treated as if they are agricultural crops. These numbered buildings, in every sense, are asylums of innocent and sane animals that have been driven mad from fear, boredom, depression and hysteria: "Confinement doesn't describe their situation. They are encased, pinned down, unable to do anything but sit and suffer and scream at the sight of gods." Further, for these gentle creatures, every waking minutes is: "Never leaving except to die, hardly able to turn or lie down, by every opening of the door, biting and fighting and going mad." portrayed by Scully. The ingestion of toxic tissues and cells from cows, pigs, chicken or turkey is responsible for the degradation of human health. The overcrowding condition of factory farms is the breeding ground for infectious diseases including streptococcus and other drug resistant bacteria and viruses. These animals are routinely fed with growth hormones, antibiotics and pesticides from their feed. Pigs are also fed with the remains of their own kind. Recent studies confirmed that these animals have developed severe
scholars, public intellectuals and journalist speaking out against such corporate farming. One such powerful protest was the publication "Dominion" by Mathew Scully, a leading conservative journalist. The book is a comprehensive coverage and interrogation of all forms of animal cruelties. The question Scully poses to the public is:"Can glorious man peer into these places of stinking, nightmarish bedlam, down to the creatures that creepeth therein, into their brutish hearts to grasp their suffering? Not only can we grasp it-it is our own worst nightmare." There is a moral urgency in Scully's message:"What makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat." Scully also gave a detailed report in the book of his visit to the Smithfield owned factory farms in Virginia. They are the world's largest producer of pigs (from raising the animals to packing plant as well as advertising). Here, animal farms are not farms but metal and concrete warehouses identified only by numbers that resemble concentration camps. Sentient beings are treated as if they are agricultural crops. These numbered buildings, in every sense, are asylums of innocent and sane animals that have been driven mad from fear, boredom, depression and hysteria: "Confinement doesn't describe their situation. They are encased, pinned down, unable to do anything but sit and suffer and scream at the sight of gods." Further, for these gentle creatures, every waking minutes is: "Never leaving except to die, hardly able to turn or lie down, by every opening of the door, biting and fighting and going mad." portrayed by Scully. The ingestion of toxic tissues and cells from cows, pigs, chicken or turkey is responsible for the degradation of human health. The overcrowding condition of factory farms is the breeding ground for infectious diseases including streptococcus and other drug resistant bacteria and viruses. These animals are routinely fed with growth hormones, antibiotics and pesticides from their feed. Pigs are also fed with the remains of their own kind. Recent studies confirmed that these animals have developed severe
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