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Stop trying to pull at my emotions PETA. Those video clips are not from regular farm/ factory farm operations. I've been to my friend's pig farm, and I can say that the pigs were not suffering, dying of "various diseases" waiting to go to a slaughterhouse.
Everything was sanitized, including myself, to avoid bringing infection to these pigs. Sickness is a pig farmer's worst nightmare. A transmittable disease can easily wipe out the whole farm of animals. The hormones injected into these animals to help them grow big is necessary, because a farm that doesn't will soon go bankrupt. The pressure is equally great for grain, fruit, and vegetable farms. Many of our crops could not survive in the wild. Key words in agriculture are "crop yield", "maturation time". Farmers need bigger, faster, just to survive. Also, if you are a vegetarian, consider yourself lucky to live in a society that is able to grow and transport crops around the world to give your body the necessary amino acids it needs to function. The truth is, Homo Sapiens Sapiens is an Omnivore. We have canines, evolved over many millenia for the purpose of tearing meat off bone in bite site pieces. Our versatility is not something we should be ashamed of. I see PETA almost as a "spoiled brat", a product of our technologically advanced civilization, and would soon see the truth of the world if the cushion was snatched out from under them.
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