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BEEF CATTLE
"Beef Cattle" spend most of their lives on overcrowded feedlots. Ranchers have found that they
can maximize profits by giving each steer less than 20 sq ft of living space-- the equivilent of putting a dozen half ton
steers in a typical american bedroom! Steers undergo painful procedures like branding, castration, and dehorning with any
anesthetics. They often die of pneumonia, dehydration, or heat exhaustion from spending long periods without food or water
in overcrowded trucks while being transported to feedlots or slaughterhouses.
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CHICKENS and TURKEYS
Chickens and turkeys today are typically crammed by the tens of
thousands into sheds, each chicken with less living space than a standard sheet of paper. Modern chickens upper bodies grow
six to seven times as fast as they used tothey are genetically bred to grow so large and so fast that their legs, lungs, and
hearts often cant keep up. Turkeys are such bulky animals that they cant even breed naturally anymore. Many of these animals,
whose lives are miserable from birth, suffer lung collapse, heart failure, and crippling leg deformities. Because farms are
basically unregulated, extreme abuse can go completely unnoticed, as when PETA went undercover on a turkey farm in Minnesota.
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