Consider vegetarian

Think before you eat

By Sierra Holter

We go to school to educate ourselves, so why not become educated about what you eat? Every day, countless animals are being murdered for humans. They live their lives in what seems to be death camps just waiting for their day to be slaughtered. Every day, cows, chickens, pigs and all other livestock are being pumped with growth hormones, shoved into tiny cages and being poked and proded until their bodies give out because of their weight, or they are slaughtered.

CHICKENS

There are more chickens on earth than there are humans.Yet we kill more than 23 million chickens daily for meat. Chickens are extraordinary animals though their brains may only be the size of a walnut. These animals have their own language with more than 40,000 different dialects, also, when a chick is born and the mother needs to go tend to other business other female chickens will babysit the chick until the mother returns. So next time you're enjoying fried chicken or pollo asado remember these creatures are capable of love and deserve to be treated as the wonderful animals they are.

COWS

Most people never have the chance to meet their meat. Well here's your chance. Cows are amazing animals that hear,feel and remember almost everything. These animals are beaten, pumped with steroids,deprived of their children and forced into cages half their size. Like humans, cows produce milk when they give birth to a calf. Dairy cows are artificially inseminated to produce milk. Once born their calfs are taken to other farms to be raised for meat or if they're females they are kept on the dairy farm and the cycle starts over. If people knew the awesome things cows are capable of they might consider buying a salad instead of a cheeseburger. We have a second chance to rethink what we eat, whereas 100,000 cows do not have any option to whether they become someone's meal or not.

PIGS

Did you know pigs are smarter than our dogs? Did you know pigs can play video games and can dream much like humans? These are only few of the interesting talents pig have. Even though they are one of the world's 3 smartest animals we kill more than 150,000 each day. Most factory farms do not have the most humane killing methods: a recent investigation in 2008 found that pigs were being lifted by chains around their necks and hung for until finally their necks were slit open. This is against many laws in the United States and ultimately the factory was shut down. The pigs in that farm were lucky and no doubt there are many more farms all over the world just like this one. Pigs are as smart as 3-year old children; we dont eat our kids or our dogs, so why would we eat these cute little animals?

TRUTH.

Face the facts: eating meat does so much unnecessary harm to millions of animals every day. Calves, chicks, and piglettes will grow up in factory farms alone with no families or friends. Every day they will be tortured until they are big enough to be slaughtered. You can help stop this cruelty by not eating meat,but, if you cannot give up animal flesh you can always be a part of many animal cruelty prevention groups. This madness can be stopped. A cow may not be a cute cat, a pig may not be man's best friend, and a chicken may not be a cute little hamster, but these animals deserve to be loved and will show you love if we just gave them the chance. So next time youre about to enjoy that hamburger remember just because it doesn't cuddle with you at night or bring you the morning newspaper doesn't make it any less of a living being.