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10 Cruel Things Done to Farm Animals That No Sane Person Would Do to a Cat or Dog:
1. Cutting Their Tails Off
In order to prevent tails being mutilated or bitten off due to overcrowding in pens, tails are cut off shortly after birth, without anesthesia or pain killers.
2. Ripping Their Teeth Out
Piglets also have their teeth ripped out at the same time as they have their tails docked to prevent them from causing harm to each other when they’re confined in their tiny pens.
3. Locking Them in Cages Where They Cannot Turn Around
Factory farmed animals are often kept in cages where there is not even enough room to turn around, stretch their wings fully, or extend their legs.
4. Taking Away Their Babies Immediately After Birth
It’s standard practice to take calves away from their mothers within a day of birth, a process which causes immense emotional stress and deprives the newborn of its mother’s milk.
5. Forcing a Tube Down Their Throat
Geese in the foie gras industry are force fed huge volumes of corn slop through long metal tubes, giving them no choice but to consume it.
6. Stealing Their Milk
Cows produce milk to feed their own babies, yet in the dairy industry, they are hooked up to machines which steal the milk for human consumption instead.
7. Filling Them Full of Drugs to Make Them Grow Faster
Almost all farm animals on intensive farms are routinely fed drugs and antibiotics in order to make them grow much faster than nature intended. Chickens are forced to grow so big that many suffer from broken legs and joint troubles.
8. Branding or Tagging Them for Identification
One method of identifying cows and pigs is by branding them with a hot iron which causes considerable pain and discomfort. Another way of doing it, for sheep, goats, and sometimes cows, is by punching a tag through the ear, which is also very painful and can become infected.
9. Depriving Them of Sunlight
Locking animals away in darkness and depriving them of ever seeing the sunlight is an industry norm for many industrialized farms.
10. Slaughtering Them at a Young Age and Eating Their Dead Bodies
Farm animal lives are cut extremely short because as soon as they reach the desired size, or they become less productive milk producers or egg layers, they are sent to the slaughter for people to eat.
Even though society deems it acceptable to do every single one of these things on a regular basis to certain animals, if someone were to do them to a dog or a cat, they’d probably be arrested for animal cruelty.
The thought of cutting a dog’s tail off, ripping her teeth out, branding her instead of giving her a name, shoving her in a tiny cage for her entire life, making her have puppies and then taking them away, and continuing to milk her so that you can drink the milk, before finally killing her and making dinner with her carcass sounds pretty psychotic. Yet this is what happens to billions of farm animals every single year.
If the thought of doing this to a cat or dog makes you feel disgusted, then you should ask yourself — do you believe this is an acceptable way to treat any animal?
Pixar’s Short Film ‘Kittbull’ Shows Friendship Between a Stray Kitten and an Abused Pitbull
by Sharon Vega
Pixar really aimed at tugging heartstrings with one of their latest short films. It’s a sweet story with a lovely message. Pit bulls get such bad reputations and are sadly misunderstood, but they are just as worthy of love as all other dogs. The director of this SparkShorts film, Rosana Sullivan says she was inspired by sweet and funny cat videos. We love cat videos too, so we understand Sullivan completely.
Kittbull starts with a wide-eyed stray kitten trying to survive, an excellent way to get the attention of people who love cat videos. The sweet kitten becomes friends with a pit bull who is sadly abused by his cruel owner. Thankfully, they find each other and we don’t want to spoil the ending because we think you should watch for yourself. Just have some tissues nearby!
If you enjoy kitten friendship videos and videos that display the pure lovability of pitties, check out Squirrel Reunites With His Best Cat BuddyandHere’s Proof Pit Bulls are Lovers, Not Fighters.
Original article on One Green Planet.
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I made this sweet potato mac and cheese recipe from @onegreenplanet.
the original recipe is below however I would definitely cute the nutmeg quantity by half and if you’re not a fan of spice the cayenne by half too.
ingredients:
2 medium sweet potatoes
450g dried pasta shells
1/3 cup vegan butter
1/3 cup flour
2 cups unsweetened non-dairy milk
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tsp dijon mustard
2 tsp white miso
½ tsp cayenne
1 tsp nutmeg
½ tsp salt
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
2 cups baby spinach, chopped
ground pepper, to taste
method:
↠ preheat oven to 220°c. poke a few holes with a fork into sweet potatoes and wrap them in foil. bake until cooked through, about 60 minutes. when sweet potatoes are cooked and slightly cool, scoop out the flesh and discard the skins. set flesh aside.
↠ cook pasta according to package instructions. drain and set aside.
in a medium pot, melt the butter. stir in flour and cook, stirring frequently for 3-5 minutes until mixture thickens. stir in half the non-dairy milk and continue stirring another 2 minutes or so as mixture continues to thicken. stir in sweet potatoes. add in remaining milk, garlic, mustard, miso, cayenne, nutmeg, nutritional yeast, and salt. continue cooking another few minutes until a thick sauce consistency is reached.
↠ transfer sauce to a blender and blend until smooth. place cooked pasta into the sauce pot. over low heat, pour blended sauce over pasta and stir well. stir in baby spinach and cook about 2 minutes until pasta is warm and spinach is wilted. serve with freshly ground pepper.
