Undercover Investigations

A few weeks ago, a vegan organization on campus handed me some pamphlets about animal cruelty. I happened to come across on of these pamphlets the other day, and what I read was horrific. It discussed the multitude of inhumane methods that animal factories in our country use to increase efficiency and profit with no thought and absolutely no respect to the well-being of the animals. I read about the debeaking of chickens, cramped quarters of pigs and cows, various antibiotics animals are injected with to keep them alive in the inhumane conditions that actually effect the meat we eat, trickery companies use to convince consumers that their methods are humane when in fact they are far from. They included a link to some videos that undercover investigators have taken in various factories around our country. They are animal rights activists who accepted jobs at these factories to secretly take video of conditions for animals and workers. The link for some of these videos is http://www.veganoutreach.org/video/, they are incredibly graphic and show animals being tortured, beaten, killed without euthanasia. For any of us who eat meat from many of the big companies in our nation, like I have, it is incredibly eye opening to see what we are actually eating.

-Ryan Sharnbroich