Animal Rights

Their sentence to death begins the moment they are born. Malnourished and weak, a mother catches only a glimpse of her newborn before he is taken away. It is her eleventh child, and like the rest, she will never see him again. The infant is left in a small room with only a machine to feed from. His diet is force fed hormones and chemicals. In a few weeks, his cage becomes too small to even turn around. He spends the days in boring agony, his only physical stimulation being the sounds of loud machinery, and the stench of his own excrement. He is small and emaciated, with no exposure to the sun, lacking the bone and muscle strength to do anything but sit. He could not run even if the bars would open. What is his fate? To be raped and eventually murdered like the sisters before him, or to live everyday like his fallen brothers, tortured for years before their slaughter? No, he is a fortunate child, for his death will not be long waited. Just one month after his birth, the veil...