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Andrew Skowron Exposes The Everyday Reality Of Farm Animals And It Might Turn You Into A Vegetarian (30 Pics)
Andrew Skowron has been an animal rights activist for over 20 years, and for many years he's been documenting the reality of animals in factory farms. The places he visits and the images he sees on a daily basis are unbearable for most people, but Andrew keeps coming back and fighting even harder for the world to see the animals for who they truly are - friends, not food.
For the new decade, Andrew wrote a letter to everybody who loves animals and wants to see them free and happy.
Andrew
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#1
A Fox Making An Eye Contact During An Intervention On A Fur Farm
"Hi, my name is Andrew. I've been working as a farm animal photographer for many years. Today, I want to ask you a favor for the new decade."
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#2
A Pig Transported To Slaughter
#3
Sleeping Piglets On A Pig Farm
"Every year, I visit numerous factory farms. Very often people don't want to look at my photos, not because they are bad, but because they show the reality our society doesn't want to see. We don't want to see the pain, the neglect, the suffering. We don't want to acknowledge the terrible crime we, as humans, committed towards the animals. And I get it, trust me. I know how difficult it is to see another living creature hurt. I've been to more factory farms than I can count, and the things I've seen will haunt me forever."
#4
A Pig Interacting With The Activists
Chyppa Homer 5 years ago
Pigs are actually on par with dogs when it comes to intelligence. They just have a hard time getting through to people. You ever get to know one, let me tell you, they will never taste the same
Claire 5 years ago
How can you see a picture like this of an innocent animal and wish him/her death? How sick do you have to be to think that this smart, and aware being is better off as food?
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The Zen Panda 5 years ago
mmmmmm unprocessed human tell me, why do we have more of a right to live than them
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A Sleeping Chinchilla On A Fur Farm
"Calves crying for their mothers, as they are taken away from them right after birth. Exhausted, exploited laying hens, practically featherless, barely breathing. Broiler chickens too heavy to lift their own bodies, unable to get to water or food. Minks and foxes going crazy in tiny cages of fur farms, with injuries to their paws and bodies. Quails kept in cages so small and dirty, they couldn't even dream of spreading their wings. Piglets having their tails cut off, teeth clipped, castrated with no anesthesia, screaming for help. Sows kept in farrowing crates, where they can't even turn around. Geese transported to slaughter in 40-degree heat."
#6
Motherhood In Factory Farms, Pig Farm
#7
Pigs Consoling Each Other, Pig Farm
Ronald odom 5 years ago
How do they know they at consoling each other. I wish people had this kind of love for their fellow humans.
"I've been to hell and I keep coming back. I get it - it's difficult to watch. But we cannot turn a blind eye on the way animals are treated on factory farms anymore. We cannot pretend they are not there, just because we can't hear their screams from our apartments. It's time to wake up. It's time to make an uprising."
#8
A Meeting With A Bull, Dairy Farm
#9
A Piglet Having Its Tail Cut Off Without Anesthesia
Kelley Shy 5 years ago
Teeth are cut because they are super sharp and while nursing, they will cause damage while nursing. This leads to a huge increase in mama pig getting an infection and possibly sick or worse, die. The piglets will also fight each other over where to nurse, causing injuries that can produce life long struggles...like losing an eye etc. Teeth cutting, tail docking, and castration are all done without anesthesia because...pigs do HORRIBLE on anesthesia. The risk of the pig dying while under the influence of anesthesia, for a procedure that takes less than 5mins, is not worth it...basic risk benefit analysis. The procedures are done sterile and quickly as possible...for the sake of the pig. They are back to doing Pig Things in less than 5minutes from being let go after procedure. Under anesthesia, the recover is hours and dying is a huge possibility.
"This next decade, I am asking you to be more open-minded. To do your research. I am asking you not to skip that slaughterhouse video. I am asking you to live according to your values - if you really love animals, help them. Don't eat them. Support animal rights activists, fight for the better world with us. Open your mind, eyes, and heart. The nightmare we created for the animals is real and difficult to accept, but if we unite and act now, as a community - we will win this fight and make this world a better place for the animals. And for ourselves."
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Broiler Chicken, Unable To Move
Laura Thai 5 years ago
meat chickens are designed for this unfortunately. generally people slaughter them a bit before they splay out. Eventually they are too heavy. I raised meat birds. They lived a happy life until they died.
#11
A Piglet Screaming In Pain, Pig Farm
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Pigs scream at literally everything they dislike, its their main defense mechanism. There is no guarantee this one is in pain rather than just unhappy
"I believe in you. I believe your heart is stronger than your taste buds. I believe you don't want animals to suffer. I believe we're in this together. Let's make this new decade a new era."
#12
Terrified Fox, Waiting To Be Rescued, Fur Farm
Brenda Pereira 5 years ago
I hope he got rescued. There is no reason to wear fur in a world where it can be made from fabrics that are hard to tell from the real thing. What benefit is there in owning real fur?
#13
Determining The Sex Of The Chickens
#14
Dirty And Exhausted Pig On A Pig Farm In Poland
Erling Brendefur 5 years ago
This is how pigs look. It is not possible to tell if this pig is sad or not from this picture.
#15
A Pig Breathing Fresh Air For The First Time
Ronald odom 5 years ago (edited)
1) there is no context to show where they are at. 2) carbon dioxide and oxygen are colorless so you can not tell how fresh it is. 3) if they did not get fresh air they would be dead.
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Ducklings On A Duck Farm, Ukraine
#17
Pigs Going To Slaughter In An Overcrowded Truck
Charlese Bonca 5 years ago
Look like they just came from a fair. I can tell because of the blue stripes on the back.
#18
A Lamb Drinking Milk From Its Mother
#19
A Raccoon Dog, Fur Farm In Poland
The Girl on Fire 5 years ago
People buy raccoon fur? And fox fur? Why. It's not only inhumane and stupid, it's ugly too
#20
Sad And Lonely, Pig Farm
#21
An Activist Holding A One-Day-Old Broiler Chicken
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
You can't rescue broilers. They are genetically bred to get so heavy so fast they break legs, end up with deformed beaks etc. They cannot have quality of life beyond 6-8 weeks
#22
A Crying Cow On The Way To Slaughterhouse
Charlese Bonca 5 years ago
Animals don't shed tears due to sadness. It's to clean their eyes. Just like dogs and cats and pigs and lambs.
#23
A Curious Fox On A Fur Farm, Looking At Activists
#24
Laboratory Rabbit
The Random Merp 5 years ago
There's so much wrong in this picture! Bunnies need a carpeted flooring, or else they'll get feet pains with their overly fluffy feet bottoms. Bunny has nothing to do, either, and nowhere to hide!
#25
A Terrified Raccoon Dog, Fur Farm In Poland
#26
Calves In Igloo Booths, Dairy Farm
Lauren Misek 5 years ago
This is actually pretty nice compared to the single sheet uninsulated plywood calf shacks I've seen in my local rural areas. It's very sad but these little guys have it better than most.
#27
Calves Separated From Their Mothers And Each Other, Dairy Farm
#28
Pigs Going To Slaughter, Trying To Breathe Fresh Air For The First Time
Kelley Shy 5 years ago
To assume that the pigs are "struggling to get fresh air" is absurd. Pigs are like dogs in a lot of ways. They are very curious in nature, have great hearing, and incredible sense of smell...for rooting out food that is underneath the soil. Pigs will always smell to get a sense of their surroundings, when their vision is blocked by something...just like dogs. If you have ever seen a pig pile (where all the pigs lay all over each other while they sleep), their snouts are crammed quite often, which they don't care...otherwise they would move to a more comfortable position.
#29
Pig Screaming In Pain
#30
A Calf On A Dairy Farm, Kept In An Igloo Booth
Erling Brendefur 5 years ago
The calf is happy, waiting for its next meal. That is what most of them are all about. That and sleeping. Like human babies. 🙂
#31
Piglets Hugging And Playing, Pig Farm
#32
A Chicken Transported To Slaughter
#33
A Sick Quail On A Ukrainian Quail Farm
#34
A Fish Caught In The Net
#35
Exhausted Broiler Chicken
Ava Florine 5 years ago
I think that chicken is molting. It's completely normal. It just means they lose their feathers and grow new ones. I think chickens like this are in horrible conditions so don't get me wrong when I say this chicken is normal besides the fact that they're in bad conditions.
#36
A Dirty, Scared Pig, Pig Factory Farm
#37
A Scared Piglet Looking At The Photographer
#38
A Terrified Piglet Before Castration, Pig Farm
#40
One-Day-Old Broiler Chickens
#43
Pig Interacting With Activists, Pig Farm
#44
Piglets Cuddling With Mom, Pig Farm
Brenda Pereira 5 years ago
They may be cuddling with mom, but mom is confined in a space so small she can barely stand.
#45
Silent Victims, Laying Hen Farm
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
That title got me. Then seeing the poor dead little baby being trampled on..So sad!
#47
Piglets Keeping Each Other Warm, Pig Farm
#48
Chinchilla Fur Farm, Ukraine
hunger games 5 years ago
this still isn't good but it is better than the other one where the wire appeared to be cutting into his feet
#49
Curious Pigs On A Pig Farm In Poland
#57
Broiler Chicken With An Injured Beak, Ukraine
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Is not injured. Broilers are genetic monstrosities. Deformed beaks are common
#60
Longing For Freedom, Geese Farm
Jette Wang Wahnon 5 years ago
This poor goose has had his feathers yanked out and is now set aside till he has had new feathers long enough for the «harvesting« Try having your hair pulled out and you will know what he suffers.All for the duvets IKEA and other companies sell.IKEA was caught in the act and put out a statement that they did not know and would stop buying...LIES,they just found another supplier..
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Terrified Piglet, Right Before Tail Docking
#63
The First Day Of Broiler Chickens In Poultry House
Jette Wang Wahnon 5 years ago
This is the stuff nightmares are made of !!These photos will be haunting me for ever...I am literally sitting here crying snot, and at the same time SO VERY angry with myself that I have been living in ignorance of so many of the things depicted here.I knew about the Polish geese having their feathers yanked out,time and time again,while screaming in anguish and stopped using duvets...IKEA sells them though..and stopped eating suckling pigs after I accidentally wandered into the kitchen of a restaurant well-known for roast suckling pig.My elderly neighbour has the most pampered poultry I have ever seen and spends hours every day taking care of them.He supplies me with fresh eggs. The agonising thing about this post is this overwhelming feeling of helplessness.I am just one elderly lady that take in abused greyhounds and donate to shelters,but it is such «a p**s-ant« effort taking into consideration this horrific post.I admire the photographer,HE IS TRULY A GREAT HUMAN BEING !!
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Lea S. 5 years ago
This is an important perspective the pictures are touching. However - I grew up in a farming community where our animals were treated like pets. Making it sound like this is every farm is irresponsible. Lots of people practice responsible, sustainable, humane, free-range farming. Take pictures of them too.
Iapetos 5 years ago
1. Few people bother to look where their food comes from. 2. Family farms produce a negligible amount of all animal products. 3. So tell me more about how animals at your farm are treated.
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Erling Brendefur 5 years ago
This is just too silly. I've tried to comment some of the picture to explain what they really show, and get downvoted. I suspect some people doesn't want to hear about it and possibly learn something new.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I grew up on a farm. We had few animals, but we still had to give shots and geld and occasionally give them some discomfort (just like we humans get when we're at the doctor). It wasn't fun, but we were only supporting ourselves. If we'd tried to "go big", I don't doubt matters would have been different. I've seen factory farms, and they're horror shows of confinement and filth. If people would pay more for eggs or meat or dairy, then farms might not have evolved to treat animals like that, b/c ti takes *time* and *effort* to make sure every animal is treated well and has land to roam and all that. And nobody wants to do that. They want cheap hamburger and bacon.
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Ruth Tait 5 years ago
A lot of the captions are misleading. Also, which country is this? I know for a fact the meat I eat isn't raised like this., I've seen it for myself.
Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago (edited)
Most pictures seem to be taken in Poland or Ukraine. Which honestly doesn't surprise me, these nations have some among the worst animal conditions in the EU. As a Swede I will never buy anything but Swedish meat and dairy. And fur farms are illegal pretty much everywhere, btw, I'm very happy for that.
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Antonia 5 years ago
i eat meat. yes. but i dont understand, why the conditions in this farms and slaughterhouses have to be so horrible. only people who likes to torture animals and other beings to forget heir tiny s****y lives, work there. most of them who work in slaughterhouses are heavy alcoholics. eating meat is ok in my opinion, but the animals should have a good life and a "human" death without fear or pain. but money and sadism is a very big thing here..
Jules Caldwell 5 years ago
Most are not like this. While my farm is tiny (~50 cows), they are all happy. They come when they're called, I know each of their favorite fruits, they wait at the fence for the kids on the school bus.
Load More Replies... The Random Merp 5 years ago
The amount of wire floors on the bottom of tiny cages is horrible. Imagine how much that must hurt!!!
Flisey 5 years ago
There seems to be a lot of comments from people defending their right to eat animals because 'no way could they be in any sort of pain (mentally or physically)'. It's a fight that some just don't care about, people want to eat animals and don't give a c**p about their welfare. Too many people think animals aren't sentient beings and don't deserve a decent life. Regardless of whether you eat animals or not, they still deserve a decent life, not locked up, unable to move. And to the people who say pigs scream for many reasons, I have had pigs and they did not scream, ever. Happy pigs grunt.
Kim Shott-Holub 5 years ago
These pics don't depict anything about what the animals actually go thru.
Debbie Andersson 5 years ago
I will never understand furfarms, the meat industry is terrible for animals already ( not against eating meat, but don't do it myself ), but fur? They live in such terrible conditions just for someone to spend loads of money to buy a furcoat? All I see is someone who spent thousands to look like a coldhearted a*****e trying to show off how much money they have by wearing dead animals who suffered, not a good look in my opinion.
Lingon 5 years ago
Do you know, that for every fur farm that has closed in western countries with animal protection laws, one has opened in China with no such laws? The demand for fur has not decreased, so if you want to stop that kind of production, then go after the buyers and not the producers...that is if you truly want to decrease animals suffering. Personally, I don't care why an animal is slaughtered (it's not like an animal would say "Oh, you are going to eat me? Well then that is okay then"), what I do care about is what type of life they had and that the slaughter was humane. And as the quality of the fur from China is bad (it's a sign of that the animals are misstreated), I prefer that production stays in the west. And I would like to see "organic fur" with even higher quality of life on the market.
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Michel Hammes 5 years ago
Thank you for posting these pictures- everyone needs to see what is going on in factory farming. I am vegetarian going vegan because of the cruelty to animals.
ShireenAin'tWoke 5 years ago
I am 100% against factory farming but I will never go vegan, it makes no sense to me and I'm fed up of people talking about it. The more people talk about veganism, the more I go against it.
Laine Light 5 years ago
Sounds like an emotional rather than a rational response.
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Hocus Pocus 5 years ago
Surely there is a more ethical way to do this? Like, with the cutting-the-tails-off-pigs thing, can't people just give them something to ease the pain?
Lingon 5 years ago
Yes, there is a more ethical way, it's "just don't do it". In my country it is illegal, due to that the pigs will be in pain for the rest of their lives if it is done. A better way of getting pigs to not bite tails, is to give them more room and thing to do, like a lot of straw to play around in. :)
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Don Pe 5 years ago
The message is clear as day. Animals are not treated well in order to get as much as possible money out of them. The answer to that is easy as well: Stop eating meat or (like me) reduce your eaten amount of meat and don't buy the discount stuff. That woul ease things a lot... for starters...
Charlese Bonca 5 years ago
These articles make me so mad. And not because it's showing the "harsh reality" of farm life. Because it's depicting a "harsh reality" and in most cases that isn't the case. Activists and the media choose farms that they know are small and cramped, and stage their photos to make it seem way worse than what is actually at hand. I am a farmer. I grew up in agriculture, I'm still in agriculture, I'm studying agriculture, and yet no one listens to me when I say this isn't true, but when an activist who has little to no education other than what they see on some vegan article comes on and shows pictures of a pig screaming or a cow crying (even though it's not from sadness but okay) everyone is all up in arms about meat and how it's just so cruel and evil to be a farmer, especially a meat farmer.
Kathy Flavin 5 years ago
Awful , awful & awful. Mistreated, pain & suffering. Geez - a lamb taken away from its mum, no assistance with pain ... shame in these sub humans. Fish it is!
Lingon 5 years ago
Perhaps you should watch "Hugh's fish fight"? And you never take a lamb from it's mother, unless she has died or rejected her lamb.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I grew up on a family farm. Industrial (commercial huge) farms are WAY different than a little family operation like ours --- we had a few chickens, a few pigs, a few cows. If you want humane treatment for EVERY animal, you have to revert to the habit of raising your own hens for eggs, your own pigs for bacon, and your own cows for dairy. Factory/industiral farming will always destroy for profit. And, btw, I have been a VEGETARIAN since age 4. Not b/c of animal cruelty on *our* farm, but b/c after you clean up pig and chicken poop, you really don't want to eat what produced that... (Goose ain't a treat, either, btw. Yeesh.) Our animals wandered around acres of pasture in fresh air, etc. But we had nothing but hilly c**p land and ourselves to support. And did I mention I'm a vegetarian?...
Jules Caldwell 5 years ago
Chickens are meannnnnn. Never again. I can milk a cow, but I'm buying eggs. 🤣
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Lingon 5 years ago
Or start producing your own. It's even possible in an apartment, like with rabbits, snails or quail.
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
There is so much we are not aware of, the living conditions, and human compassion,there is no need for cruelty, those who work on these farms, are a terrible breed, not quite human !!!
Lea S. 5 years ago
Hey! Don't lump us all together. My father is kind to his animals.
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DYspLay ARt 5 years ago
I will always go against this. Once, when my mother was young, her family owned some pigs. She grew quite close to one of them. One day her father came out to slaughter the pig for dinner and my mom couldn't even sit at the table. :,( It isn't fair to animals. If I had a farm it would be to own the animals and if I needed money, sell them alive. I think this really help people bring to mind what people are getting food, as lapetos said, and give them a CLUE on WTF they're even doing. We are selfish hoomans. Some people really go against my love for animals and say it's too much. I was watching "A Dog's Way Home" were pitties weren't allowed because of their dangerous-ness. I went so against it, I missed out on, like, ten minutes of the movie to calm myself down.
Firefoxy3121 5 years ago
We mostly eat meat from our farm or buy it from the big one near town we don’t buy eggs cause we got chickens and we grow our own veg
Ronald odom 5 years ago
I think this is a poorly done attempt to make propaganda. If they want to change any minds rather then just anger the base they have they will need to do better. this is more tripe to feed to the class of people that are no more then just keyboard activists. most off live in a nation the you have the ability to have a select diet and eat or not eat. In that nation I bet there is poor that city planers and admin have tried very hard to hide. solving that local problem is harder then going to farm with $1000 DSLR and telling the onwer to give up his lifeblood to make you fell better.
Mercy Kavutha 5 years ago (edited)
All of you making excuses for the killing and misuse of animals are the worst. Its "happy"??? in a cage??? You are all evil. You wouldn't imagine that happening to you, and why? Because you are the better species? This isnt inhumane because human beings are selfish and horrors. If you did your research and still EAT these poor poor creatures of love you are evil-know that.
Mercy Kavutha 5 years ago
All of you making excuses for the killing and misuse of animals are the worst. Its "happy"??? in a cage??? You are all evil. You wouldn't imagine that happening to you, and why? Because you are the better species? This isnt inhumane because human beings are selfish and horrors. If you did your research and still advocate for this you are scum.
Dian Parama Kosala 5 years ago
thats make new perspective to me.. ill respect my diner from now..
les 5 years ago
You need to change the title. This is factory farming and rightly we are disgusted by it, however many farmers refuse to do this and that should be reflected in the title. I come from a farming background and none of our animals would ever be treated this way
Ben Smith 5 years ago
Too many human qualities placed on these animals. “Consoling,” “longing,” etc. you have no idea what they’re feeling and you choose to use the words to incite people. Very poorly done.
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heidi holmes 5 years ago
Most of these photos are from foreign countries, not the US. I love how the creator of this article is filling people's heads with falsehoods and half truths about how we tend to our slaughter animals here. Here in the states there is a standardization required for animals meant for human consumption. But they won't show that because it wouldn't make for as good of a story. Go figure.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
Most of the comments are "ehh it's not that bad!" Well, mostly IT IS. Large manufacturing scale farms only see animals as commodities. They are bred, fed, then killed at a minimum cost. I was disappointed there is no photo from goose farm where they overly force feeding them with tubes so that the livers will grow unnaturally big for your luxury foie gras. Here in my country it's common for cows to be forced to drink gallons of water through a hose so their weight becomes heavier before being slaughtered. But there are good farms with humane treatment though, but they usually cost more and not very efficient.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Bull S*#t. I've lived on farms and around animals my whole life. I've seen large scale production farms and they are nothing like this. I'd bet most of these are from 3rd world countries. Treating animals badly is inexcusable, but if you have to lie to make your point you're probably wrong.
littlesaresare 5 years ago
Factory farms are not a third world country thing, dude. They are a first world country thing.
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Patrick Krott 5 years ago
I can't believe people still eat animal products in 2020. In the future we'll look back on ourselves in disgust.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 5 years ago
Humans f*****g suck, we are a toxic cancer to every other living thing on this planet, if we disappeared everything else living would benefit.
The Frog 5 years ago
I'm calling BS on some of these captions with the pics, as others have said no one knows legitimately where or what is going on in each particular photo, All you have done is given the vegetable people something to gloat over on insisting it's to do with veganism, wrong... silly story for bored panda!
Whiterain25 furry 5 years ago
proud vegan if you're not vegan, ortrying on the journey to veganism, you can go die murder is a choice
Lingon 5 years ago
Hahaha, exhaused? Scared? You really don't know anything about animal behaviour do you? Even if I'm not a fan of non-organic factory farming, but this was just ridicolous. For one, chickens and other species die, some are just not adept to the world. Second, you are aware of that posts like this, actually makes things worse for the animals right? Because when you use words like you do, you are making people turn off their ears, making my job in getting the public into demanding better animal protection laws a whole lot harder. And because your trespassing is forcing the farmers to keep their animals locked up (they are locked up because they need to be protected from YOU) Thirdly, I saw in at least one of the pictures that you had your private clothes on. Congratulations, you just signed that bulls death punishment for your stupidity, and possibly very many other animals. I hope you sleep well tonight, knowing that you are no animal friend, you are a animal murderer.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
Instead of being insulting why don't you provide actual information for those of us who want to do something that will actually help. I get the feeling you work in the industry, it would be nice to hear from your perspective what a good course of action would be to make farms more humane.
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Iapetos 5 years ago
If people don't stop being so ignorant, at some point the government will enforce laws to regulate meat consumption - and I reckon you're not a fan of communism, so it's time to grow some responsibility of your own.
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Lea S. 5 years ago
This is an important perspective the pictures are touching. However - I grew up in a farming community where our animals were treated like pets. Making it sound like this is every farm is irresponsible. Lots of people practice responsible, sustainable, humane, free-range farming. Take pictures of them too.
Iapetos 5 years ago
1. Few people bother to look where their food comes from. 2. Family farms produce a negligible amount of all animal products. 3. So tell me more about how animals at your farm are treated.
Load More Replies... Erling Brendefur 5 years ago
This is just too silly. I've tried to comment some of the picture to explain what they really show, and get downvoted. I suspect some people doesn't want to hear about it and possibly learn something new.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I grew up on a farm. We had few animals, but we still had to give shots and geld and occasionally give them some discomfort (just like we humans get when we're at the doctor). It wasn't fun, but we were only supporting ourselves. If we'd tried to "go big", I don't doubt matters would have been different. I've seen factory farms, and they're horror shows of confinement and filth. If people would pay more for eggs or meat or dairy, then farms might not have evolved to treat animals like that, b/c ti takes *time* and *effort* to make sure every animal is treated well and has land to roam and all that. And nobody wants to do that. They want cheap hamburger and bacon.
Load More Replies... Ruth Tait 5 years ago
A lot of the captions are misleading. Also, which country is this? I know for a fact the meat I eat isn't raised like this., I've seen it for myself.
Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago (edited)
Most pictures seem to be taken in Poland or Ukraine. Which honestly doesn't surprise me, these nations have some among the worst animal conditions in the EU. As a Swede I will never buy anything but Swedish meat and dairy. And fur farms are illegal pretty much everywhere, btw, I'm very happy for that.
Load More Replies... Antonia 5 years ago
i eat meat. yes. but i dont understand, why the conditions in this farms and slaughterhouses have to be so horrible. only people who likes to torture animals and other beings to forget heir tiny s****y lives, work there. most of them who work in slaughterhouses are heavy alcoholics. eating meat is ok in my opinion, but the animals should have a good life and a "human" death without fear or pain. but money and sadism is a very big thing here..
Jules Caldwell 5 years ago
Most are not like this. While my farm is tiny (~50 cows), they are all happy. They come when they're called, I know each of their favorite fruits, they wait at the fence for the kids on the school bus.
Load More Replies... The Random Merp 5 years ago
The amount of wire floors on the bottom of tiny cages is horrible. Imagine how much that must hurt!!!
Flisey 5 years ago
There seems to be a lot of comments from people defending their right to eat animals because 'no way could they be in any sort of pain (mentally or physically)'. It's a fight that some just don't care about, people want to eat animals and don't give a c**p about their welfare. Too many people think animals aren't sentient beings and don't deserve a decent life. Regardless of whether you eat animals or not, they still deserve a decent life, not locked up, unable to move. And to the people who say pigs scream for many reasons, I have had pigs and they did not scream, ever. Happy pigs grunt.
Kim Shott-Holub 5 years ago
These pics don't depict anything about what the animals actually go thru.
Debbie Andersson 5 years ago
I will never understand furfarms, the meat industry is terrible for animals already ( not against eating meat, but don't do it myself ), but fur? They live in such terrible conditions just for someone to spend loads of money to buy a furcoat? All I see is someone who spent thousands to look like a coldhearted a*****e trying to show off how much money they have by wearing dead animals who suffered, not a good look in my opinion.
Lingon 5 years ago
Do you know, that for every fur farm that has closed in western countries with animal protection laws, one has opened in China with no such laws? The demand for fur has not decreased, so if you want to stop that kind of production, then go after the buyers and not the producers...that is if you truly want to decrease animals suffering. Personally, I don't care why an animal is slaughtered (it's not like an animal would say "Oh, you are going to eat me? Well then that is okay then"), what I do care about is what type of life they had and that the slaughter was humane. And as the quality of the fur from China is bad (it's a sign of that the animals are misstreated), I prefer that production stays in the west. And I would like to see "organic fur" with even higher quality of life on the market.
Load More Replies... Michel Hammes 5 years ago
Thank you for posting these pictures- everyone needs to see what is going on in factory farming. I am vegetarian going vegan because of the cruelty to animals.
ShireenAin'tWoke 5 years ago
I am 100% against factory farming but I will never go vegan, it makes no sense to me and I'm fed up of people talking about it. The more people talk about veganism, the more I go against it.
Laine Light 5 years ago
Sounds like an emotional rather than a rational response.
Load More Replies... Hocus Pocus 5 years ago
Surely there is a more ethical way to do this? Like, with the cutting-the-tails-off-pigs thing, can't people just give them something to ease the pain?
Lingon 5 years ago
Yes, there is a more ethical way, it's "just don't do it". In my country it is illegal, due to that the pigs will be in pain for the rest of their lives if it is done. A better way of getting pigs to not bite tails, is to give them more room and thing to do, like a lot of straw to play around in. :)
Load More Replies... Don Pe 5 years ago
The message is clear as day. Animals are not treated well in order to get as much as possible money out of them. The answer to that is easy as well: Stop eating meat or (like me) reduce your eaten amount of meat and don't buy the discount stuff. That woul ease things a lot... for starters...
Charlese Bonca 5 years ago
These articles make me so mad. And not because it's showing the "harsh reality" of farm life. Because it's depicting a "harsh reality" and in most cases that isn't the case. Activists and the media choose farms that they know are small and cramped, and stage their photos to make it seem way worse than what is actually at hand. I am a farmer. I grew up in agriculture, I'm still in agriculture, I'm studying agriculture, and yet no one listens to me when I say this isn't true, but when an activist who has little to no education other than what they see on some vegan article comes on and shows pictures of a pig screaming or a cow crying (even though it's not from sadness but okay) everyone is all up in arms about meat and how it's just so cruel and evil to be a farmer, especially a meat farmer.
Kathy Flavin 5 years ago
Awful , awful & awful. Mistreated, pain & suffering. Geez - a lamb taken away from its mum, no assistance with pain ... shame in these sub humans. Fish it is!
Lingon 5 years ago
Perhaps you should watch "Hugh's fish fight"? And you never take a lamb from it's mother, unless she has died or rejected her lamb.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I grew up on a family farm. Industrial (commercial huge) farms are WAY different than a little family operation like ours --- we had a few chickens, a few pigs, a few cows. If you want humane treatment for EVERY animal, you have to revert to the habit of raising your own hens for eggs, your own pigs for bacon, and your own cows for dairy. Factory/industiral farming will always destroy for profit. And, btw, I have been a VEGETARIAN since age 4. Not b/c of animal cruelty on *our* farm, but b/c after you clean up pig and chicken poop, you really don't want to eat what produced that... (Goose ain't a treat, either, btw. Yeesh.) Our animals wandered around acres of pasture in fresh air, etc. But we had nothing but hilly c**p land and ourselves to support. And did I mention I'm a vegetarian?...
Jules Caldwell 5 years ago
Chickens are meannnnnn. Never again. I can milk a cow, but I'm buying eggs. 🤣
Load More Replies... Lingon 5 years ago
Or start producing your own. It's even possible in an apartment, like with rabbits, snails or quail.
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
There is so much we are not aware of, the living conditions, and human compassion,there is no need for cruelty, those who work on these farms, are a terrible breed, not quite human !!!
Lea S. 5 years ago
Hey! Don't lump us all together. My father is kind to his animals.
Load More Replies... DYspLay ARt 5 years ago
I will always go against this. Once, when my mother was young, her family owned some pigs. She grew quite close to one of them. One day her father came out to slaughter the pig for dinner and my mom couldn't even sit at the table. :,( It isn't fair to animals. If I had a farm it would be to own the animals and if I needed money, sell them alive. I think this really help people bring to mind what people are getting food, as lapetos said, and give them a CLUE on WTF they're even doing. We are selfish hoomans. Some people really go against my love for animals and say it's too much. I was watching "A Dog's Way Home" were pitties weren't allowed because of their dangerous-ness. I went so against it, I missed out on, like, ten minutes of the movie to calm myself down.
Firefoxy3121 5 years ago
We mostly eat meat from our farm or buy it from the big one near town we don’t buy eggs cause we got chickens and we grow our own veg
Ronald odom 5 years ago
I think this is a poorly done attempt to make propaganda. If they want to change any minds rather then just anger the base they have they will need to do better. this is more tripe to feed to the class of people that are no more then just keyboard activists. most off live in a nation the you have the ability to have a select diet and eat or not eat. In that nation I bet there is poor that city planers and admin have tried very hard to hide. solving that local problem is harder then going to farm with $1000 DSLR and telling the onwer to give up his lifeblood to make you fell better.
Mercy Kavutha 5 years ago (edited)
All of you making excuses for the killing and misuse of animals are the worst. Its "happy"??? in a cage??? You are all evil. You wouldn't imagine that happening to you, and why? Because you are the better species? This isnt inhumane because human beings are selfish and horrors. If you did your research and still EAT these poor poor creatures of love you are evil-know that.
Mercy Kavutha 5 years ago
All of you making excuses for the killing and misuse of animals are the worst. Its "happy"??? in a cage??? You are all evil. You wouldn't imagine that happening to you, and why? Because you are the better species? This isnt inhumane because human beings are selfish and horrors. If you did your research and still advocate for this you are scum.
Dian Parama Kosala 5 years ago
thats make new perspective to me.. ill respect my diner from now..
les 5 years ago
You need to change the title. This is factory farming and rightly we are disgusted by it, however many farmers refuse to do this and that should be reflected in the title. I come from a farming background and none of our animals would ever be treated this way
Ben Smith 5 years ago
Too many human qualities placed on these animals. “Consoling,” “longing,” etc. you have no idea what they’re feeling and you choose to use the words to incite people. Very poorly done.
Load More Replies... heidi holmes 5 years ago
Most of these photos are from foreign countries, not the US. I love how the creator of this article is filling people's heads with falsehoods and half truths about how we tend to our slaughter animals here. Here in the states there is a standardization required for animals meant for human consumption. But they won't show that because it wouldn't make for as good of a story. Go figure.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
Most of the comments are "ehh it's not that bad!" Well, mostly IT IS. Large manufacturing scale farms only see animals as commodities. They are bred, fed, then killed at a minimum cost. I was disappointed there is no photo from goose farm where they overly force feeding them with tubes so that the livers will grow unnaturally big for your luxury foie gras. Here in my country it's common for cows to be forced to drink gallons of water through a hose so their weight becomes heavier before being slaughtered. But there are good farms with humane treatment though, but they usually cost more and not very efficient.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Bull S*#t. I've lived on farms and around animals my whole life. I've seen large scale production farms and they are nothing like this. I'd bet most of these are from 3rd world countries. Treating animals badly is inexcusable, but if you have to lie to make your point you're probably wrong.
littlesaresare 5 years ago
Factory farms are not a third world country thing, dude. They are a first world country thing.
Load More Replies... Patrick Krott 5 years ago
I can't believe people still eat animal products in 2020. In the future we'll look back on ourselves in disgust.
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 5 years ago
Humans f*****g suck, we are a toxic cancer to every other living thing on this planet, if we disappeared everything else living would benefit.
The Frog 5 years ago
I'm calling BS on some of these captions with the pics, as others have said no one knows legitimately where or what is going on in each particular photo, All you have done is given the vegetable people something to gloat over on insisting it's to do with veganism, wrong... silly story for bored panda!
Whiterain25 furry 5 years ago
proud vegan if you're not vegan, ortrying on the journey to veganism, you can go die murder is a choice
Lingon 5 years ago
Hahaha, exhaused? Scared? You really don't know anything about animal behaviour do you? Even if I'm not a fan of non-organic factory farming, but this was just ridicolous. For one, chickens and other species die, some are just not adept to the world. Second, you are aware of that posts like this, actually makes things worse for the animals right? Because when you use words like you do, you are making people turn off their ears, making my job in getting the public into demanding better animal protection laws a whole lot harder. And because your trespassing is forcing the farmers to keep their animals locked up (they are locked up because they need to be protected from YOU) Thirdly, I saw in at least one of the pictures that you had your private clothes on. Congratulations, you just signed that bulls death punishment for your stupidity, and possibly very many other animals. I hope you sleep well tonight, knowing that you are no animal friend, you are a animal murderer.
Sterrinatu 5 years ago
Instead of being insulting why don't you provide actual information for those of us who want to do something that will actually help. I get the feeling you work in the industry, it would be nice to hear from your perspective what a good course of action would be to make farms more humane.
Load More Replies... Iapetos 5 years ago
If people don't stop being so ignorant, at some point the government will enforce laws to regulate meat consumption - and I reckon you're not a fan of communism, so it's time to grow some responsibility of your own.
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