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Monday, April 16th, 2018

If You’re Like Most Americans, You Think Farmed Animals Are Treated Well: That’s Simply Not True

Author:     Nate Lotze
Source:     Alternet
Publication Date:     April 6, 2018, 6:30 PM GMT
 Link: If You’re Like Most Americans, You Think Farmed Animals Are Treated Well: That’s Simply Not True
Stephan:   Because profit is the only priority in American society everyone from humans to animals takes second place to money. Did you think industrial animal husbandry included compassionate treatment of food animals. You know, as depicted in all those television ads about happy chickens, pigs and lambs. Let me disabuse you of that myth.

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The California-based nonprofit Factory Farming Awareness Coalition has a simple mission: to educate people about what really happens on factory farms. Why is this necessary? Most Americans think farm animals are treated well, despite the fact that 99% of animal products come from factory farms. And factory farming, in addition to being extremely cruel to animals, is a leading driver of global warming, deforestation, species extinction, water waste, and pollution.

FFAC executive director Katie Cantrell founded the organization in 2010, shortly after graduating from UC Berkeley. She’d read the book Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer’s gripping exploration into why we eat some animals and not others, and she was inspired to expose the truth about factory farming.

Cantrell hopes to raise awareness, not just about the cruelty inherent in raising animals industrially, but the often-overlooked social justice, environmental and public health impacts of factory farming. Since its inception, FFAC has delivered highly visual, compelling, and even life-changing presentations (see for yourself) to more than 75,000 people in schools and businesses, including Stanford, Google and Tesla, convincing many to embrace a plant-based […]

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