Factory Farming Cruelty Quotes

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.

One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.