(05-01-2012, 06:05 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 06:01 PM)Valtor Wrote: I am not saying that judging is wrong, because I believe that nothing is wrong.

In 6D, yes. But we are in 3D.

This was discussed on the radio show a couple of weeks ago, by the way. You might wish to check it out.

(05-01-2012, 06:05 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 06:01 PM)Valtor Wrote: But imposing your judgment on him does result in negativity to you AND does not change anything regarding his act. It's not helping one bit.

You're saying that I'm saying "judge him" which would have "no effect on his action" but that is opposite of what I'm saying, which is "don't judge him, but DO stop him from harming another, if the other person is calling for help and it's within your power to answer the call."

Our responsibility is to answer the call, not support the person involved in an STS action. That's not judging him; it's simply declining his STS act of service. This is acceptable. Even Ra did this.

(05-01-2012, 06:05 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 06:01 PM)Valtor Wrote: The person in need of help would get my help. And in so doing, I would indeed try to stop the would-be murderer/rapist.

??? well that is EXACTLY what we're trying to do!!

The animals are calling for help. We are trying to help them. And in so doing, we are trying to stop the oppressors (whether consciously contributing to the oppression or unconsciously contributing).

It is exactly the same scenario! The only difference is that the attacker might actually be STS motivated, whereas most people who eat meat aren't doing it out of any STS motivation. So the intention is different. But that's all the MORE reason to answer the call for help!

(05-01-2012, 06:05 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 06:01 PM)Valtor Wrote: I am not nearly balanced enough to simply watch this while only feeling compassion for both.

If you're saying a totally balanced person would do nothing, then we have very very very different paradigms. I think there is a gross misunderstanding of what 'balanced' is.

Quote:42.3 Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say, a bull, in a pen attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. Or, you do not have much of an emotional response other than the fear response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self seeing both as the Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.

42.4 Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

42.5 Questioner: In the illusion that we now experience it is difficult to maintain this response especially if the entity’s attack results in physical pain, but I assume that this response should be maintained even through physical loss of life or extreme pain. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and further is of a major or principle importance in understanding, shall we say, the principle of balance. Balance is not indifference but rather the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation but rather fully imbued with love.

(05-01-2012, 06:46 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I agree about Ra's meaning. But that's precisely my point:

Contributing to planetary darkness by adding to the suffering of our younger other-selves is not doing nothing.

It's doing something.

(05-01-2012, 06:46 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 06:31 PM)Valtor Wrote: Would you accept it if I start pointing out logical fallacies in the arguments we make here ?

I've already been doing that, and got only resentment. And you and I don't even agree on logic, so I don't see how this would help. It'll still just end up being disagreement about what's logical. I attempted to use logic to apply concepts, and it backfired.

If everyone was equally educated in logic, it might work. But such is not the case.

(05-01-2012, 06:50 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I don't know that much about chickens.

(05-01-2012, 06:50 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Are you sure dairy cows are miserable?

(05-01-2012, 06:50 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Have you been to a dairy? I have, and the cows certainly didn't look miserable. Also, we have a milk cow, and I know from experience that she gives more milk and cream when she's happy and well-fed. I suspect that it would be the same for commercial animals.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)Valtor Wrote: My understanding of this comes directly from the Ra material.

Quote:42.3 Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say, a bull, in a pen attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. Or, you do not have much of an emotional response other than the fear response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self seeing both as the Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.

42.4 Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

42.5 Questioner: In the illusion that we now experience it is difficult to maintain this response especially if the entity’s attack results in physical pain, but I assume that this response should be maintained even through physical loss of life or extreme pain. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and further is of a major or principle importance in understanding, shall we say, the principle of balance. Balance is not indifference but rather the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation but rather fully imbued with love.

As I see it, what is missing in the above explanation is that Ra does not say to do nothing if attacked, in other words, not to defend one's self (or an other-self). Ra says that regardless of what happens, love would be the balanced emotional response.


[quote='Valtor' pid='83924' dateline='1335913551']Is that a yes ?

(05-01-2012, 12:07 PM)Valtor Wrote: "What would be the value in that, other than to indulge the perpetrator?"

The value is unconditional love and acceptance of that which is.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I'm not suggesting it's fabricated, and I'm not oblivious to it.

I'm asking if you personally have been to any farms, feedlots, or slaughterhouses; I'm suggesting that the PETA videos don't show enterprises that are respectful to animals, and I'm suggesting that there are many of those.

(05-01-2012, 07:08 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: So would you perhaps edit Ra's quote to say that wanderers will lighten the planetary vibration "unless they eat meat?"

(05-01-2012, 07:28 PM)Diana Wrote: As I see it, what is missing in the above explanation is that Ra does not say to do nothing if attacked, in other words, not to defend one's self (or an other-self). Ra says that regardless of what happens, love would be the balanced emotional response.

(05-01-2012, 07:45 PM)Valtor Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 07:28 PM)Diana Wrote: As I see it, what is missing in the above explanation is that Ra does not say to do nothing if attacked, in other words, not to defend one's self (or an other-self). Ra says that regardless of what happens, love would be the balanced emotional response.

Ra would certainly not tell us what to do.

(05-01-2012, 07:33 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: 1. Why does it matter if I've ever been to one personally? Must I travel to Africa to know that there are starving children there? But in answer to your question, I've seen the cattle feedlots from the road. I couldn't stomach going inside.

2. Why are PETA videos disregarded? Why does it matter who filmed the video? the footage is REAL.

3. Of course not ALL farms are this bad. Yes, there are still some old-fashioned, small-time farmers, like the ones in your area. But please watch the BBC film. This is the wave of the future! This method of 'farming' [sic] is being touted as the only way to feed the world's population, and is being promoted to the British "here, learn how they do it in the US." But regardless, there fact is that these do exist, and they are becoming more and more widespread. To disregard the reality of these abominations, because some 'humane' farmers still exist, is to miss the point.

(05-01-2012, 07:33 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: As the other vegetarians and I have stated numerous times, our overall vibration is based on the sum total of all our choices, not any particular choice, so it's impossible to answer that. Eating meat is one of many choices that affects our overall vibration. But it's a biggie, in my opinion, precisely because of the magnitude of its impact. And because, in most cases, it's not necessary.

(05-01-2012, 07:29 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: The point of Ra's compassion was to teach us how to achieve acceptance, IMO.

(05-01-2012, 07:29 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: I don't think their compassion was to push our thoughts toward the yellow ray concerns.

(05-01-2012, 07:58 PM)Diana Wrote: Right. But Ra didn't say that we are to just do nothing, and let someone attack us or our family. Responding with love is not the same as doing nothing and letting everything be. For one thing, there is the respect for the physical body which houses our consciousness, and which we are caretakers of.

Quote:33.11 Questioner: This motion picture brought out this point of which we have been talking. And the entity, the Colonel, had to make a decision at that point. I was just wondering, with respect to polarity, his polarization. He could have either knuckled under, you might say, to the negative forces, but he chose to defend his friend instead. Is it possible for you to estimate which is more positively polarizing: to defend the positively oriented entity, or to allow the suppression by the negatively oriented entities? Can you answer this even?

Ra: I am Ra. This question takes in the scope of fourth density as well as your own and its answer may best be seen by the action of the entity called Jehoshuah, which you call Jesus. This entity was to be defended by its friends. The entity reminded its friends to put away the sword. This entity then delivered itself to be put to the physical death. The impulse to protect the loved other-self is one which persists through the fourth density, a density abounding in compassion. More than this we cannot and need not say.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: Trying to change society is yellow ray. Having compassion for animals, and answering their call, is green ray.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: 1. It's possible you might find the reality on the ground is not quite so dire as you believe.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: 2. I don't think PETA videos are disregarded.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I'm suggesting that the PETA videos don't show enterprises that are respectful to animals, and I'm suggesting that there are many of those.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: 3. The future is not set in stone. It seems to me that if animals activists worked with humane farmers we might be able to get some traction.

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I believe it's possible to be a compassionate omnivore and also that, as Edgar Cayce quoted Jesus, what comes out of our mouths is more important (and relevant to our vibration) than what goes in.

(05-01-2012, 08:41 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 07:58 PM)Diana Wrote: Right. But Ra didn't say that we are to just do nothing, and let someone attack us or our family.

Actually, they did imply that in higher densities that's exactly what we'd do.

(05-01-2012, 08:41 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote:

Quote:Ra: I am Ra. ...The impulse to protect the loved other-self is one which persists through the fourth density, a density abounding in compassion. More than this we cannot and need not say.

(05-01-2012, 08:41 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 08:39 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: Trying to change society is yellow ray. Having compassion for animals, and answering their call, is green ray.

Trying to change society in order that animals be better treated is yellow ray, but there's nothing wrong with that.

(05-01-2012, 07:58 PM)Diana Wrote:

(05-01-2012, 07:45 PM)Valtor Wrote: Ra would certainly not tell us what to do.

Right. But Ra didn't say that we are to just do nothing, and let someone attack us or our family. Responding with love is not the same as doing nothing and letting everything be. For one thing, there is the respect for the physical body which houses our consciousness, and which we are caretakers of.

With regard to eating meat and supporting the industry, to just let it be because one doesn't want to interfere with any human free will is to ignore it. Just as not doing anything about an attacker is ignoring the situation. One can still respond with love and defend oneself. The idea of responding with love is what is in your heart. You may hate the attacker and defend yourself. You may also love the attacker and defend yourself.

Again, with regard to the meat industry, the question has been asked by the creator of this thread, which opened the door to opinions and viewpoints. The door is open, and the question asked, so I feel I am causing no infringement upon any member's free will by expressing my thoughts. (And this goes for everyone here.)

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: No, not possible, for the simple reason that those videos are real. It's impossible to say "that's not really happening."

The most one could do is say that it's not as widespread as they say.

On the other hand, it's possible, and I'd say quite probable, that it's far more widespread than they say. Certainly much more widespread than you seem to think.

Why do you seem to be downplaying these atrocities?

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: What difference does it make who did the filming? The film is real; that's all that matters. Of course PETA doesn't film cute cozy farms, the same as charities don't report on happy, well-fed children. What would be the point of that?

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: They're already doing that. But even 'spiritually oriented' Law of One students can't even agree that animals even deserve any compassion, so I don't have much hope for the general population.

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I disagree. They said they declined the service of the STS entities. They also gave instructions for how the LL team could decline the service. They, Ra, declined the service also.

...

This is only part of the picture. The rest of the picture is that Jesus had a particular mission, and he lacked wisdom, which was fine in order to complete his mission. Another piece of the puzzle is declining the offer of STS service.

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: ...But even 'spiritually oriented' Law of One students can't even agree that animals even deserve any compassion, so I don't have much hope for the general population...

(05-01-2012, 08:57 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I'm not downplaying them, but yes, I'm suggesting that things are not monolithically bad.

Quote:Across the United States, nearly 10 billion land animals are raised and killed each year for meat, eggs, and milk.3,4
More than half of all confined farm animals by weight—54%—are concentrated in just 5% of the country‟s industrial animal production farms.5
The realities of today‟s animal agribusiness practices are a far cry from the ones embraced by the small, family farms that once supplied the marketplace. Industrialization and raising unprecedented numbers of farm animals have resulted in the intensive confinement of these chickens, pigs, turkeys, cattle, and other animals—and the intensive problems faced by those who must contend with the impacts of factory farming.
Replacing Family Farms
Factory farms have made it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for independent family farmers to survive as they are unable to compete against these massive corporate operations. Many once-independent farmers are resorting to contractual arrangements with large agribusiness corporations, 6raising the companies‟ animals until
slaughter. “Contract growing” now makes up much of the factory farming industry, particularly in the pig and poultry sectors. 6By 1999, contract production accounted for more than 60% of U.S. pig production and 35% of cattle production.7 Today, poultry production is now almost entirely contract-based.

Although the terms “factory farm,” “concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO),” and “animal feeding operation (AFO)” are often used interchangeably, “factory farm” is a general term that refers to industrial animal production facilities, while “AFO” and “CAFO” have precise legal
definitions. An AFO is a facility in which crops and vegetation are not sustained during the normal growing season, and land animals are confined for 45 days or more within a 12-month period.28,29
As described by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “AFOs congregate animals, feed, manure and urine, dead animals, and production operations on a small land area.”30
The EPA estimates that there are approximately 450,000 AFOs in the United States.31

(05-01-2012, 08:57 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I didn't say it mattered who did the filming, just that the reality may be less homogenous than the films portray.

Quote:Factory farms, also known as CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) or IFAP (Industrial Farm Animal Production) facilities,1 can house more than 125,000 animals2 under one roof and are designed to produce the highest possible output at the lowest possible cost to the operator. These farms and their associated industrial slaughterhouses produce “cheap” meat, eggs, and dairy by externalizing their costs. The costs to the public from the ecological damage and health problems created by factory farms are not considered any more than the law requires, and companies have often found it less expensive to pay fines than to alter their methods. For this reason, the true cost of meat is never reflected in the price consumers pay. Animal suffering is given no meaningful consideration except in a few idiosyncratic cases.

Factory farming now accounts for more than 99 percent of all farmed animals raised and slaughtered in the United States.3 (Virtually all seafood comes to us by way of industrial fishing or factory fish farms.)

Farmed animals are remarkable creatures who experience pleasure (pasture-raised pigs, for instance, are known to jump for joy)4 and have complex social structures (cows develop friendships over time and will sometimes hold grudges against other animals who treat them badly).5 The cheap animal products churned out by factory farms come at a high cost to the animals themselves (many are confined so intensively that they cannot turn around or stretch a wing).6 The structure of factory farming ensures that even the animals’ most fundamental needs—clean air, sunshine, freedom from chronic pain and illness—are denied them.

(05-01-2012, 08:57 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I think we're all in favor of compassion for animals.

Quote: You're probably thinking: "That's insane!". Right?

(05-01-2012, 09:14 PM)Valtor Wrote: I did not read the whole thread, but I do not remember even one poster who did not agree that animals deserve compassion.

Quote:Activism has played a major role in ending slavery, challenging dictatorships, protecting workers from exploitation, protecting the environment, promoting equality for women, opposing racism, and many other important issues. Activism can also be used for aims such as attacking minorities or promoting war.

(05-01-2012, 09:50 PM)Valtor Wrote: Incidentally, has any activism ever been shown to actually help promote their cause in the collective? By this I mean getting actual results in what the cause is about.

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I disagree. They said they declined the service of the STS entities. They also gave instructions for how the LL team could decline the service. They, Ra, declined the service also.

Quote:Across the United States, nearly 10 billion land animals are raised and killed each year for meat, eggs, and milk.3,4
More than half of all confined farm animals by weight—54%—are concentrated in just 5% of the country‟s industrial animal production farms.5

(05-01-2012, 08:48 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I don't get that at all from this thread.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)Valtor Wrote: I already did, I co-submitted this question with you.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)Valtor Wrote: I would agree with you that successfully living by 6d values in 3d is not realist. But I see no problem in trying.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)Valtor Wrote: I already said that I believe animals (and plants for that matter) should be treated with compassion, just like humans.

But I also believe this to be a different debate than eating meat per se.

(05-01-2012, 07:05 PM)Valtor Wrote: I understand this. It's simply that I sincerely do not believe that eating meat is the issue here.

(05-01-2012, 08:56 PM)Valtor Wrote: Lets assume for an instant that eating meat is an act that polarizes somewhat in the negative. Have you ever considered that all these animals are evolving much faster toward 3d because of what they go through in their short lives?

(05-01-2012, 08:56 PM)Valtor Wrote: Kind of like us under the influence of the Elites, where we live about 90 years and our normal lifespan should be 900 years. We are evolving much faster because of this negativity.

Quote: I shudder to think of the violent world those creatures will inhabit when they become human...It may make this planet look like a paradise by comparison.

(05-01-2012, 09:54 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I was thinking about this some more. They said the instinct to protect continues through fourth density. If you think about it, they didn't protect L/L. They advised them, true, but they didn't shield them.

(05-01-2012, 09:54 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote:

Quote:Across the United States, nearly 10 billion land animals are raised and killed each year for meat, eggs, and milk.3,4
More than half of all confined farm animals by weight—54%—are concentrated in just 5% of the country‟s industrial animal production farms.5

So 46% of confined farm animals are produced by the other 95%.

(05-01-2012, 09:54 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: In other words, it's not monolithic.

(05-01-2012, 09:54 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Also, they are apparently not counting the non-confined animals.

(05-01-2012, 09:54 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: It's there, I think. Maybe compassion takes different forms than you expect?

(05-01-2012, 08:38 AM)norral Wrote: just want to 2nd what diana said. its all about disconnect. lets make it all sanitary and pretty , nothing to see here, no suffering , animals are not people they are animals. yet many animals display a far greater loyalty than human beings do to one another. and they are so so trusting in many cases. they look to us with eyes of pure love. i say if any of us had to work a full day in a slaughterhouse we wouldnt eat meat again for a long long time. and its the same thing with war, pretty cool bombs dropped so accurately designed to minimize civilian casualties.

(05-01-2012, 01:41 PM)Oldern Wrote: Monica, are you familiar with Law of Attraction?

(05-01-2012, 06:01 PM)Valtor Wrote: The person in need of help would get my help. And in so doing, I would indeed try to stop the would-be murderer/rapist.

I am not nearly balanced enough to simply watch this while only feeling compassion for both.

(05-01-2012, 09:50 PM)Valtor Wrote: Incidentally, has any activism ever been shown to actually help promote their cause in the collective? By this I mean getting actual results in what the cause is about.

EDIT:
I guess this answers my question.

http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/07Anderson.html

Quote:Activism has played a major role in ending slavery, challenging dictatorships, protecting workers from exploitation, protecting the environment, promoting equality for women, opposing racism, and many other important issues. Activism can also be used for aims such as attacking minorities or promoting war.

(05-01-2012, 05:16 PM)Valtor Wrote: Do you believe you are contributing to slavery by using money? Probably not, because that is probably not your intent. In the same way you can eat meat without the intent to contribute to animal abuse.

(05-01-2012, 05:37 PM)Diana Wrote: The money is inert, and does respond to intention in your life.

(05-01-2012, 05:22 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Retreating within and saying "it's OK" would seem to be included in that it would lighten the planetary consciousness.

(05-02-2012, 12:52 AM)Pickle Wrote: I see this as a misconception by a few here..........

42.7 Questioner: I would like to try to make an analogy for third-density of this concept. Many entities here feel great compassion for relieving the physical problems of third-density other-selves by administering to them in many ways, with food if there is hunger as there is now in the African nations, by bringing them medicine if they feel that there is a need to minister to them medically, and being selfless in all of these services to a very great extent.

This is creating a vibration that is in harmony with green-ray or fourth-density but it is not balanced with the understanding of fifth-density that these entities are experiencing catalysts and a more balanced administration to their needs would be to provide them with the learning necessary to reach the state of awareness of fourth-density than it would be to minister to their physical needs at this time. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. To a mind/body/spirit complex which is starving, the appropriate response is the feeding of the body. You may extrapolate from this.

Quote:But a new interactive map points out that in many parts of the country, eggs, dairy, and meat products marketed as "local" could actually be coming from a factory farm in your county. Which means some of the local food sold in grocery stores could be from animals raised in inhumane conditions and in such high concentrations that they pollute your local water supply and air. Since many industrial farming operations are inconspicuous—they look like warehouses, with no animals to be seen—many people have no idea that they live near a factory farm, also known as a concentrated animal-feeding operation, or CAFO. The new and improved Factory Farm Map, created by Food and Water Watch, uses color coding and easy-to-understand stats to help consumers find factory-farm hotspots throughout the country. Using U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data, consumers can easily drill down to the county level to see how many industrial farm animals are in each county of the United States.

...And virtually no region in the country is untouched by factory-farm operations that often deprive animals of sunlight, cleanliness, pasture, room to move, and high-quality feed. These large-scale operations also threaten local air and water quality, as raw manure runoff laced with antibiotics potentially contaminates groundwater. "While more and more light is being shed on the ways our food system is broken and consumers are increasingly interested in knowing where their food comes from, there is still a lot of information that’s hidden from public view," says Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch. "The purpose of the Factory Farm Map is to provide an easy-to-use tool that anyone can access to learn more about where our food is really coming from."

Quote:Number of cows and calves slaughtered every 24 hours in the US: 90,000
Number of chickens slaughtered every minute in the US: 14,000
Food animals (not counting fish and other aquatic creatures) slaughtered per year in the US: 10 billion
Slaughterhouse:
Transcript of New York Times full page ad published June 22, 2001 detailing the horrors of our modern-day slaughterhouses. With 309-330 cows per hour coming by on the "disassembly" line, there are many who are still fully conscious with eyes wide open when skinned and cut apart. They die literally piece by piece.
Factory Farm Animals with Diseases from Intensive Conditions:
A report by the USDA estimates that 89% of US beef patties contain traces of the deadly E. coli strain. Reuters News Service 8/10/00
US pigs raised in total confinement factories where they never see the light of day until being trucked to slaughter: 65 million (total confinement factories are banned in Britain)

Some Dude Wrote:Definition of COMPASSION
: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it

Synonyms: commiseration, sympathy, feeling

Quote:Professor John Webster, Department of Animal Husbandry, Bristol University says:

"The dairy cow is a supreme example of an overworked mother. She is the hardest working of all our farm animals and it can be scientifically calculated. It is equivalent to a jogger who goes out for six to eight hours a day which is a lunatic pursuit”. He states that almost 100 per cent of cows suffer from laminitis - a disease which causes 'great pain to the cow' (MAFF). Tissue lining of the foot becomes inflamed and may lead to ulcers. Professor Webster continues: "To understand the pain of laminitis it helps to imagine crushing your finger nails in the door then standing on your fingertips.
...The genetic manipulation and dietary controls which have led to their extraordinary output of milk carry with them a cost, all borne by the cow. She has a one-in-three chance of her udders secreting pus and painfully swelling with mastitis, and the antibiotics forced up her udders don't have much success in controlling the disease.

Because of the strain of carrying her oversized udders, she is likely to be amongst the one third of cows who are lame from foot and leg disorders. And her body consumes so much energy for milk production that her muscles simply waste away...the ugly truth is that a quarter of dairy cows are so exhausted by the process they never see their third year, despite having a life expectancy of 21 years or more. Most cows are killed at four to seven years, often pregnant when they die."

Quote:Contrary to the industry's advertising campaign filled with green pastures and happy cows, many of the nation's nine million dairy cows never step on a blade of grass in their lives.

Quote:Far from leading the carefree lives portrayed in the dairy industry's "happy cow" commercials, the vast majority of cows used for dairy production today lead lives of deprivation, confinement, painful mutilations and cruel handling. These curious and intelligent animals are denied access to open pasture and treated as mere milk-producing machines - forced to live on manure-coated concrete floors in overcrowded sheds.

A new Mercy For Animals investigation is pulling back the curtains on the largest dairy factory farm in New York State – Willet Dairy in Locke. In early 2009 an MFA undercover investigator worked at the mega-dairy, secretly documenting egregious acts of animal cruelty, including neglect, with a hidden camera.

Evidence gathered during the investigation reveals:

Cows with bloody open wounds, prolapsed uteruses, pus-filled infections, and swollen joints, apparently left to suffer without veterinary care
"Downed" cows – those too sick or injured to even stand – left to suffer for weeks before dying or being killed
Workers hitting, kicking, punching, and electric-shocking cows and calves
Calves having their horns burned off without painkillers, as a worker shoved his fingers into the calves' eyes to restrain them
Calves having their tails cut off - a painful practice opposed by the American Veterinary Medical Association
Newborn calves forcibly dragged away from their mothers by their legs, causing emotional distress to both mother and calf
Cows living in overcrowded sheds on manure-coated concrete flooring
Workers injecting cows with a controversial bovine growth hormone, used to increase milk production
...Sadly, the inhumane conditions uncovered at this factory farm are not isolated. Whether raised for meat, dairy or eggs, animals used in food production are frequently subjected to appalling confinement, mutilations, brutal handling and slaughter. Because agribusiness values profit over ethical principles, cruelty to animals continues to run rampant on factory farms.

Thankfully, compassionate consumers can choose to withdraw their support of these abusive industries by adopting a vegan diet. Each time we eat we can choose kindness over cruelty.