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This is a complex issue and the article I found is a heavy read, but it has a lot of information and some very clear statistics.
It is dealing primarily with the farm animal situation in the USA, but many of the big companies function globally so changing them in one country has an effect on their workings in other countries.

It is worth the read.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

I am impressed to hear about the Open Philanthropy Project and how their money is being used to help farm animals.
The whole system needs to be changed. People are eating less meat, but I think there will continue to be meat consumption at least for the foreseeable future.


We can at least make things better.

Work your way through the article. It is long and covers so many issues, but it is encouraging in spite of the nature of the subject.

This is a very interesting article Catherine.
Unfortunately Huffpost doesn't load very well for me at this time in the evening. I shall take a deeper look later.

It is true that the bad treatment of farm animals is a huge percentage of the worldwide "cruelty to animals" problem. Even the hundreds of dogs who die horribly at Yulin is a small percentage compared to the way we treat, chickens, cows, pigs...etc. The farm animals are kept in dreadful slavery for every moment of their short lives. The only possible escape for them is death, and that never comes in a good way.

I hope you can get the article to load later. It is well thought out and covers the whole issue very well.

The whole way we use animals for food is inherently cruel. Things were planned to create profits and the animals involved were merely commodities. They were never considered as living beings that could feel. I guess factory farming has its roots in a time when people believed animals had no feelings and no intelligence. We have so much to answer for in the way we have treated animals and in the way we have treated the whole planet.

What is happening now is part of a larger  change in our thinking. We have to change. Things can't go on the way they are.
The planet cannot continue to sustain our farming methods. They put a terrible strain on things and are a major cause of climate change.

I can't wait to hear what you think of the article.