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Or how about eggs?

Take a look at this video clip from Mercy for Animals about some chickens in a factory farm.

Or how about this one from PETA about a certain fast food chicken company:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8024762860830232247

Cruelty in the KFC Slaughterhouse
In July 2004, PETA revealed the results of an investigation into a KFC-supplying slaughterhouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, where workers were caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them, and violently slamming them against floors and walls.

If I hadn’t already gone vegan, the above would have pushed me into it faster.

That kind of treatment and death in the food chain is the norm, folks, the norm. And don’t be fooled by ‘free range’ on products. There’s no big bazillion acre meadow for bazillions of (the animal “commodity” of choice) to happily range around freely before a humane death.

If you want to learn more about the industry, check out the chapter on the myth of the “threat” of veganism in the book “Everything You Know is Wrong”, found at the DisInfo site

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