Mother Hen and Chick from Tribe of Heart on Vimeo. “Every day, all over the world, countless millions of chicken eggs are eaten, and countless millions of chickens are killed, their flesh ending up on dinner plates and in soup bowls. Yet, in spite of our civilization’s ever expanding use and killing of these animals [...]
As many workers take this holiday Monday to relax, spend time with family, and enjoy the final days of summer, most spare no thought for those enslaved to human masters on farms around this country — those who get no holiday. Historically, animals have made up the foundation of a nation’s work force. They pulled [...]
“…the production of milk and eggs involves as much cruelty and killing as meat production does: surplus cockerels and calves, as well as spent hens and cows, have been slaughtered and otherwise brutally destroyed through the ages. Historically, there have been two main solutions to the problem of unwanted bull calves: club them to death [...]
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau explains the inherent exploitation of the female reproductive system in the dairy and egg industries. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
The drug Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses. Mares are cruelly confined and subjected to invasive procedures throughout their pregnancy only to have their colts taken away from them after birth. This perversion of the reproductive cycles of female horses produces a harmful drug that is marketed to women by convincing them [...]
Note from the editor: the purpose of including this article is not to defend PETA’s campaigns which exploit female bodies, but rather to call attention to the incongruity of the feminist who is not vegan since animal agriculture is built upon the exploitation of the female animal and her reproductive system. The following essay is [...]