How Farm Animals Live and Die
- Today's Freaks: An A to Z of How Farm Animals Live and Die
- December 26, 2011 by Sue Cross pacificfreepress.com
How are all the animals we use for food reared, fed and slaughtered: the chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese; the laying hens, quail and pheasants; the pigs, lambs, dairy cattle, beef cattle, and veal calves; the fish and shellfish; the goats, dogs and horses?
This A to Z tells how.
Today's Freaks goes behind the scenes of animal farming. It shows for instance
that in some parts of the world breeding dogs for meat is preferred to breeding
pigs. And that in factory farms, if it
were not for the routine use of antibiotics, animals would be unlikely to stay
alive until their slaughter date - see Antibiotics, Diet and also Disease; or go
to Health.
Under Supermarket Food find that ingredients that originate from animals are in all sorts of products you might not expect – like gelatine in sweets (which is made by boiling animal skins and bones until the mixture becomes soft and elastic). This book also looks at all sorts of topics not normally associated with food production: Fear, Injuries, Pain. Butchering, Gassing, Electrocution. Bullying, Cannibalism, Mutilations.
There are Questions too – for
example: Is it wrong to treat farm animals as if they were inanimate
agricultural products? And if so what can we do about it? Above all this
book shows how
animals reared in factory farms have been bred to become so unlike their natural
selves (see Double-muscled Mutants) that they are unlikely - even in natural
surroundings - to be able to lead anything like normal lives. Hence the title of
this book – Today's Freaks. 
April 13, 2013 Christian Ethics: Are They Found Wanting With Regard to Factory Farming?
April 2023 The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs by Hope Bohanec, is a big book tackling big and often unseen issues — from the cruelties inherent in the do-it-yourself backyard egg business to a newly applauded movement in which women “find themselves” by killing sentient animals.
The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? exposing what advocates now refer to as “humanewashing” – strategic marketing that causes customers to perceive that animals used for food are being treated well, when in reality they are not. Hope Bohanec, author
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