Wednesday, December 10, 2014

You’re in for a big surprise, but no picnic

1222: 

On the farms and especially the factory farms, the psychological torment suffered by the animals is unarguable.  But people in general know almost nothing about this – they are ignorant or they pretend to be.  We most of us live in towns and cities.  We hardly ever go to the country and when we do, we see the pretty farm buildings nestling amongst trees, surrounded by green paddocks.  We never see the interiors of the sheds, nor want to.

If we get to know, from pictures or TV footage, that the animals are kept in slum conditions (and therefore realise that our food comes from these places) we still don’t react.  We aren’t aroused by the possibility that there’s anything wrong going on, let alone anything diabolical.  We aren’t encouraged or even allowed to check out conditions on farms, let alone abattoirs.


If you go down to the farm today you’re in for a big surprise - if you ever get to see inside one it would be a case of ‘once seen never forgotten’. 

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