CRUELTY- FREE

EVEN IF REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF MEAT YOU EAT- YOU WILL HELP REDUCE ANIMAL CRUELTY, BENEFIT YOUR HEALTH HELP THE ENVIRONMENT

  COWS:
  • Gentle & placid.
  • Have individual personality.
  • 360 degree vision & can see all colors excepy red.
  • Have social hierarchy.
  • Very social animals
  • They groom each other mainly by licking which reinforces the bond between them.
  • Have problem solving skills.
  • Like humans they are pregnant for 9 months.
  • They 'moo' to communicate.
  • NUMBER KILLED PER YEAR IN AUSTRALIA: 2 MILLION
  PIGS:
  • Have individual personalities.
  • Playful.
  • Wag tail when happy.
  • Exceptional capacity for learning & are smarter than dogs.
  • They learn tricks faster than dogs.
  • They have long memories.
  • Use grunts to communicate.
  • Pigs don't have sweat glands so on hot days will take a mud bath to protect their skin.
  • Otherwise they are clean animals.
  • Research has found that piglets have their own teat each.
  NUMBER OF PIGS KILLED PER YEAR IN AUSTRALIA: 10 million.

Pigs are raised indoors- with no access to sunlight,  grass or soil to stand on.  Instead they stand & lie down on concrete floor with no bedding or room to move freely about.  

CLICK HERE TO GO TO ANIMALS AUSTRALIAhttps://www.animalsaustralia.org

 

"I am not a drumstick" "

" I am not a nuggett"

"like you I am a living  being who feels fear,  pain & distress."

CHICKENS:
  • Social animals.
  • Individual personalities.
  • Have a pecking order.
  • Very inquisitive.
  • Can see full color.
  • Use 30 vocialisations to communicate.
  • Love dust baths to clean feathers.
  • Female sits on eggs and clucks to chicks who cluck back.
  • NUMBER OF CHICKENS KILLED PER DAY IN AUSTRALIA: 1 million (as they produce the least amount of meat).

Factory farming of chickens, crammed together in a shed. If any chickens are injured or sick they receive NO VETERINARY CARE.

On day of slaughter the chickens are caught by their legs & shoved into crates & put onto truck. This causes them great FEAR,  DISTRESS & CONFUSION.   At slaughterhouse chicken being put onto a hook. You can clearly see the DISTRESS & FEAR on the chicken's face. About to get stunned & then have their THROAT SLIT. Many chickens are not stunned properly or fully & are still aware when throat slit.

SLAUGHTER HOUSE:

  • Killing.
  • Violence.
  • Abuse.
  • Fear.
  • Suffering.
  • Animals want to live.
  • They can smell/sense the fear, blood & death of the animals before them.
Pigs being gassed- this causes confusion, fear & panic- they squeal trying desperately to escape Final journey to slaughterhouse. Cow with head in "kill box"- a bolt will be put into the cow's brain. You can see the fear on the cow's face- it doesn't want to die.  The white of cow's eyes are only visible when they are stressed or scared.

If you doubt animals about to be slaughtered don't feel fear or panic- look at this cow's face.

  Animals are treated as objects or commodities. Terms such as LIVESTOCK, BEEF, POULTRY, PORK & CATTLE reflect this & to desensitize us to what we are eating was once a LIVING & FEELING ANIMAL.
 

WHAT IS SPECIESISM?

Is the human-held belief that all other non-human animals are inferior. We've all heard the saying "dumb/stupid animal." It is similar to SEXISM OR RACISM.

Currently under the LAW (which reflects society's morals) animals are PROPERTY so can be BOUGHT, SOLD & KILLED.