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POOR COW
The brutality of the beef and dairy industries........................2
SHEAR TORTURE
How sheep suffer for meat and wool......................................4
FLOCK IN HELL
The misery behind eggs and poultry meat..............................6
BATTERED LIVES
Fish supper? Fish suffer.............................................................8
A PIG OF A TIME
The life and death of your bacon sandwich...........................10
A BUG’S LIFE
The tiny creatures behind honey, silk and shellac..................11
GO VEGAN
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ANIMALS
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POOR COW
THE BRUTALITY OF THE BEEF AND DAIRY INDUSTRIES
MEAT HOW THEY ARE KILLED
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The mother and calf form a strong bond
very quickly and the cow continuously calls
after her calf has been taken away from
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her. The separation also causes a lot of
confusion and distress for the calf.
months after she has given birth, and while and stressful. Male cattle are also castrated
she is still producing milk, she will be made by methods that cause the animal acute
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Moreover, the calf is taken away soon after Female calves are often kept to produce
birth so that any milk produced by the cow milk. Male calves are usually sent abroad
can be sold for humans to drink. for veal or deemed ‘useless’ and killed.
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SHEAR MISERY
HOW SHEEP SUFFER FOR MEAT AND WOOL
TAIL-DOCKING
CASTRATION
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SHEARING
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FLOCK IN HELL
THE MISERY BEHIND EGGS AND POULTRY MEAT
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THE KILLING
Most laying hens are kept in battery cages In 2012 it is expected that legislation will be
with several birds to one cage. The amount passed banning the use of conventional
of room in which each bird spends her life (battery) cages for laying hens across Europe,
is roughly the same size as an A4 sheet of although World Trade Organisation rules
paper or a microwave oven. mean that it may not happen. ‘Furnished’
cages will be allowed, which have slightly
more room but many if not all of the
problems that conventional cages have.
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BATTERED LIVES
FISH SUPPER? FISH SUFFER
FISH AND PAIN THE WAY THEY DIE
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FISHING HAS DEVASTATED THE OCEANS
KILLING
The rearing of farmed fish can be Fish-farms may be rife with disease so
compared to other types of factory large quantities of chemicals are used in
farming. With very limited space the fish an attempt to control it. Defra has noted
can barely exercise and injuries to the snout that, “To date there are no easy
and fins are common. These are generally treatments for any of these diseases”
caused by rubbing against the net or by (Carp disease SVC, Trout BKD and Salmon
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collision or aggression between fish. Disease).
Wild salmon migrate over hundreds of Ironically fish-farming also affects wild
miles and this is completely frustrated by fish, who are fed to farmed fish such as
keeping them in the small static cages that salmon, trout and cod. It takes up to
fish-farming involves. The stocking density three tons of wild fish to produce one ton
of salmon is equivalent to keeping a two- of farmed salmon and up to five tons to
foot salmon in a bath, whilst trout have produce a ton of farmed cod or
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even less space to move. haddock.
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A PIG OF A TIME
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF YOUR BACON SANDWICH
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A BUG’S LIFE
THE TINY CREATURES BEHIND HONEY, SILK AND SHELLAC
HONEY SILK
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