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Slaughter

Today as meat is bought neatly and hygienically packaged, we don’t often get to see the ghastly sight of blood flowing from the throat of an animal following a slaughter. Slaughter methods dictate that animals should be treated in humane manner and rendered unconscious before slaughter. They are usually rendered unconscious by stunning or electrocution. Animals are reared and slaughtered for food because majority of the people of all civilized countries eat meat. In developing countries, one billion animals are killed for food every year. Out of this about 60% is killed without pre-stunning. Animals can feel pain as much as we can. Though animals are required to be stunned before they are killed, there is a religious exemption for Jewish and Muslim slaughterhouses. More...

Leather

Every time you choose to buy a leather jacket or leather shoes, you sentence animals to a lifetime of suffering. More...

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Animal Factories

• Every year, 35.7 million cows are stunned, hung upside down, bled to death, and skinned in slaughterhouses.
• Goats may be boiled alive to make kid gloves.
• Alligators on factory farms are packed into half-sunken sheds.
• Crocodiles are often caught in the wild with huge hooks and wires and reeled in when they become weakened from blood loss or drown.
• Many animals are skinned when they are still alive.
• Snakes and lizards are often skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying imparts suppleness to the finished leather.More...