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From CNN: “Half-million Pigs To Be Slaughtered in Chile Health Emergency”
A factory farm is closing in Chile this week, after pigs were abandoned to live and starve in their own filth for five days, deeming them too unsanitary for human consumption. 500,000 lives, each one more intelligent than the dog sleeping at my feet, lost. For greed and bacon. My heart is broken. RIP babies. 

“They are going to be slaughtered. They are not going to another farm, nor to another plant.”
- Jose Guzman, CEO of Agrosuper, owner of the farm

From CNN: “Half-million Pigs To Be Slaughtered in Chile Health Emergency”

A factory farm is closing in Chile this week, after pigs were abandoned to live and starve in their own filth for five days, deeming them too unsanitary for human consumption. 500,000 lives, each one more intelligent than the dog sleeping at my feet, lost. For greed and bacon. My heart is broken. RIP babies. 

“They are going to be slaughtered. They are not going to another farm, nor to another plant.”

- Jose Guzman, CEO of Agrosuper, owner of the farm

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I know I’ve been the world’s worst blogger lately- thank you to those of you who haven’t abandoned me! I promise, there’s an explanation, accompanied by HUGE news. Which I’ll be sharing with you tomorrow or Saturday. But in the meantime, go vegan. You’ll live longer, providing you many more years in which you can help fix the world. We need you. xo, TK

I know I’ve been the world’s worst blogger lately- thank you to those of you who haven’t abandoned me! I promise, there’s an explanation, accompanied by HUGE news. Which I’ll be sharing with you tomorrow or Saturday. But in the meantime, go vegan. You’ll live longer, providing you many more years in which you can help fix the world. We need you. xo, TK

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I served Michael Clarke Duncan a few gourmet vegan dinners back in my server days, and let me assure you- this dude is HUGE, strong, and not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. Love it.
Check out his brilliant interview here!

I served Michael Clarke Duncan a few gourmet vegan dinners back in my server days, and let me assure you- this dude is HUGE, strong, and not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. Love it.

Check out his brilliant interview here!

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As a lifelong lover of pigs (the film ‘Gordy’ turned me veg at 8 yrs old), gestation crates are, for me, one of the most heartbreaking elements of the factory farming system.

More than 6 million pigs in the U.S. are kept as breeding sows on factory farms…For a 400-pound sow, it’s such a tight fit that she can’t turn around, lie down comfortably or take more than a step forward and back for most of her life.

- Farm Sanctuary

Because most humans prioritize a momentary experience of gustatory pleasure above not only animal welfare but also their own health, mama pigs are subjected to a lifetime of loneliness, discomfort, and confusion

We can fight this by choosing and promoting a cruelty-free lifestyle (it’s fun, I promise!).

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Accountability in Our Diets
If you wouldn’t personally castrate an animal without anesthetic,
if you wouldn’t work at a factory farm,
if you wouldn’t take a baby away from his mother,
if you wouldn’t brand someone’s skin,
if you wouldn’t cut off beaks, toes or tails,
if you wouldn’t deprive someone of light,
if you wouldn’t deny someone space to stretch or even walk,
if you wouldn’t drive the transport truck,
if you wouldn’t use the bolt gun or the electric prod or wield the knife,
why would you support the end product?
(via sheldrakillher)

Accountability in Our Diets

If you wouldn’t personally castrate an animal without anesthetic,

if you wouldn’t work at a factory farm,

if you wouldn’t take a baby away from his mother,

if you wouldn’t brand someone’s skin,

if you wouldn’t cut off beaks, toes or tails,

if you wouldn’t deprive someone of light,

if you wouldn’t deny someone space to stretch or even walk,

if you wouldn’t drive the transport truck,

if you wouldn’t use the bolt gun or the electric prod or wield the knife,

why would you support the end product?

(via sheldrakillher)

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How Eating Meat Makes Men EVEN SEXIER ;)

I think you guys will like this.  Original article can be found here on The Huffington Post.

Five Reasons Why Man = Meat

Posted: 7/31/11 09:14 PM ET

To my fellow men:

It’s time to bring forward some reasoned arguments against the wave of “evidence” and public opinion claiming that meat is unhealthy, unethical, and unattractive. The next time you’re being bullied by the carrot mobs, give them a spoonful of sloppy joe and the following five reasons why you’ve made the choice (it’s a free country!) to keep on eating 222 pounds of meat a year.

1. Fecal Soup.
99 percent of chickens take a long, cold bath in massive tanks of water and communal feces before their meat leaves the slaughter plant. The chicken industry literally calls it, “fecal soup.” Here’s the cool thing: A small, but now extinct tribe of men in Burundi believed that inhaling chicken crap gave them “special” powers. We could have those powersAnd the USDA legally requires companies to indicate what percentage of their chicken meat is infused with crap water.Unfortunately, the law doesn’t allow for more than 11 percent liquid absorption. The next time you buy chicken, just look closely at the small print on the bottom-right of the package. Anything over 5 percentshould be enough to give you superhuman qualities.

2. Sex. 
You’ll get it less. Mostly because eating lots of meat (read: inhaling cholesterol) has been linked in study after study to impotence. And the first blocked artery in men is usually pumping blood to, yep, the penis. If you think strategically, though, your impending arousal issues should mean that you’ll become even moreirresistible to your partner. The “hard to get strategy” worked with your last two ex-girlfriends, right? It’s time to bring that same strategy to the bedroom. Side note that you should probably keep to yourself:Erectile dysfunction is the canary in the coal mine for heart disease.

3. Strength.
Modern women aren’t attracted to men that challenge stereotypes, have the strength to act in alignment with their deepest values, and live with compassion and integrity. And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can’t turn around, and then blurt out, “But, I love me some bacon!” It’s a turn on. Go ask them.

4. Salt.
Eating lots of meat will make your “stuff” smell like a decomposing — but salty — pig carcass. The digestion of animal protein creates a dumpster-like bacterial environment, giving your girl that, “Did I just throw up in my mouth?” taste. See, the less a woman is interested in all that down there, the more satisfying it’ll be the two times a year (read: your birthday and Valentines Day) that she’s brave enough to give it a try. Common sense dictates another strip of bacon on that BLT.

5. Sympathy.
Colon cancer has been linked to slurping down red and processed meats, presumably related to the armies of nitrates swimming around in every bite. And “vegetarians have the lowest rates of coronary heart disease of any group in the country,” said Dr. Castelli, director of the longest-running study of diet and heart disease in the world. What should all that “science” mean to you? In romantic relationships, the sympathy card is always a winner. And getting sick means lots of it. Expect more massages and more home cooked breakfasts — a silver lining, even if you’re crapping blood.

Strap on a pair, and enjoy your dinner.

 

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The Last Day.

Pigs photographed by activists en route to slaughter.  Pictures taken today, July 21, 2001.

The eyes.

Conditions so cramped and temperatures so high, pigs were enduring cuts on their snouts in exchange for access to fresh air.

Knowing that these sweet babies were headed for a fate like this utterly guts me. Rest In Peace.

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Please enjoy this latest undercover video from Mercy For Animals (which, you probably know by now, is my very favorite of all animal protection/rights/liberation groups), starring the always reliable & dependable employees of our nation’s factory farms.

Everything you see in this video is both legal and standard practice.  Animals need not suffer for our gluttony.  We are better than this.  Please, if you need any help transitioning to a cruelty-free lifestyle, that’s what I’m here for!

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