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FOR
THE ANIMALS Despite the
common belief that drinking milk or eating
eggs does not kill animals, commercially-raised
dairy cows and egg-laying chickens, whether
factory-farmed or "free range", are slaughtered
when their production rates decline.(1)
The same factory farm methods that are used
to produce most meats are also used to produce
most milk and eggs.(2)
These cows and chickens live their short
lives caged, drugged, mutilated, and deprived
of their most basic freedoms.
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U.S. farms, an average of 7 egg-laying hens
spend their entire lives in a battery cage
with a floor area the size of a vinyl record
cover.(3)
Living on wire floors that deform their feet,
in cages so tiny they cannot stretch their
wings, and covered with excrement from cages
above them, these chickens suffer lameness,
bone disease, and obsessive pecking, which
is curbed by searing the beaks off young chicks.(4)
Although chickens can live up to 15 years,
they are usually slaughtered when their egg
production rates decline after two years.
Hatcheries have no use for male chicks, so
they are killed by suffocation, decapitation,
gassing, or crushing.(5) |
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As
with any mammal, cows produce milk only when
pregnant and stop after their calves have
been weaned. When a dairy cow delivers a female
calf, the calf becomes a dairy cow herself,
born to live in the same conditions as her
mother. But when a dairy cow delivers a male
calf, the calf is sold to a veal farm within
days of birth, where he is tethered to a stall,
deprived of food and exercise, and soon slaughtered
for meat.(6)
Life is only a few years longer for the mother.
Because it is unprofitable to keep cows alive
once their milk production declines, dairy
cows are usually slaughtered at 5 years of
age.(7)
Thus, a cow's normal lifespan of 25 years
is cut 20 years short just to cut costs and
maximize production. |
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