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Animal Rights

Whenever you eat or drink something, do you really think about what it is you are consuming? For example, for breakfast, you stop at McDonald’s to grab a pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwich before school. Do you realize that you are eating part of a pig, a chicken and a cow? The chickens that are raised for McDonald’s eggs and meat are treated horribly before they are brutally killed. The chickens are crammed into filthy, overcrowded, cold, drafty warehouses where each bird has less space to stand than the width of a standard sheet of paper. Every piece of animal flesh that you eat is most often achieved in a sick and twisted way. The people that raise animals for food are in it for the money, not the welfare of the animals. And not only are the animals killed for their flesh, they are also murdered for their skin and fur. Every time you see a person that you see walking down the street with a mink coat on is wearing, think of the 3,600 hours that those 60 defenseless anima...

Posted by: Chad Boger

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