March 2012
Marc Bekoff, author, former Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of
Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, writes about the inherent,
systematic, legal, egregious abuse in factory farms. He mentiones a recent
undercover investigation at the Harling farm, in Norfolk, UK, where
undercover investigators took 200 hours of footage showing despicable acts
of cruelty to pigs. Bekoff clearly states that this farm is not an exception
but instead a typical factory farm and that "No one has to eat bacon, pork,
or sausage."
Sadly, the abuse at Harling farm happens all across the globe in factory
farms. When God's animals are commodified and treated as mere objects, we
are clearly harming them and harming ourselves in the process. Unless we
realize that our acts toward all sentient beings have consequences, we won't
be able to have peace, love and joy in our hearts.
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