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THEUNHEARD

CRY


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Dear Human Beings,

Im a farm animal raised for yourfood.

I want to talk to you while I am stillalive.

Do you know how we would like to

be like you, running under the

A letter from

an unheard voice


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But most of us live an entirelife

of sufferingin factory farms,

without any freedom to do

what

we want. Our life is completely

inyour hands you, the human

beings.


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Have you ever asked yourself:

how do we live?It is nothing about love,

peace, happiness, comfortand healthy;

instead,

there are only stress, fight,suffering, torture, cruelty,

disease and killing!


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If you dont believe me,

please read this


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Factory farming is the practice ofraisingfarm animals in large

warehouses with confinement athigh density in orderto produce the highest

output at the lowest cost.Being crammed into filthy

confinement systems, these

Factory farming


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In factory farms, drugs are oftenaddedto the food of animals to makethem grow faster, larger and

to keep them alive inconditions that would otherwisekill them. These additives include

antibiotics, pesticides,growth hormones, chemicaladditives, colorants and

other drugs.


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Most farmed animals areslaughtered at just a few

months old a fraction oftheir natural lifespan.

AnimalsNatural

lifespan AgeAt whichtypically

killedCattle 25-30 years 1-2 years

Sheep 15 years 4 months

Pigs 15 years 3-6 monthsChickens 10 years 6 weeks

Laying hens 10 years 18 months


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pecking one another out of frustrationin the crowded cages, chicks have a

part of their sensitive beak sliced offwith a burning-hot blade without anypain relief; many are not able to eat

due to the pain and die fromdehydration and a weakened immunesystem.


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As male chicks cannot lay eggsand arent

the same breeds as those chickensraisedfor meat, they are of no value to

the eggor meat industries. Shortly afterhatching, hundreds of millions of

unwanted male chicks are killed

annually,usually BY

GASSING,CRUSHING,OR

SUFFOCATIO


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Cattle

Bull calves raised for beef are marked,without painkiller, with hot fire ironsinto their flesh for identification, causingthem third degree burns.

They are castrated and dehorned, alsowithoutany anesthesia.


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Milking cows are REPEATEDLYIMPREGNATED

with artificial insemination every yearto forcethe animals to continue giving milk.

They are hooked up, several times a

day, to machines that often tear theirudders, causing painful inflammation.In the U.S., cows are fed with powerful

hormones and forced to produce about10 TIMES as much milk as theynaturally would.


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Fish

Modern fishing technology wasbuiltto catch as many fish as possible

at the expense of the collapse ofmarine speciesand the health of ocean

ecosystems. 90% of large fish populations

have been exterminated in the

past 50 years.


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Bottom trawling is a common fishingmethod with a huge bag-shaped nets that

scraps the ocean floor with a rigid metalframe at a speed of 7km/h. This methoddig up the surface of the seabed,catching rocks, corals, marine animals

and fishes in their paths, disrupting thebottom habitat and wipingout hundreds of tons of animals out of the

ocean.

Bottom

trawling isdestroying

our ocean

floor.


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Bottom-trawling nets rip hundreds of tons ofanimals out ofthe ocean, squeezing some of them so tightlyagainst the sides


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Ghost Fishing: when fishing netsor traps are lost due to storms or

negligence, they continue to catchfish until the net becomescompletely full. Hundreds or

thousands

A shark caught by a ghost net.

of marine animals

caught arecompletelywasted. Fish deaths

caused by ghostfishing may be up to

30%30% as large as

annual landings in


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Now, dear human beings,

let me continue my letter.

I always wonder -Do you really need

our flesh to survive?


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Would there be a day

whereour suffering and fear will

end,

and we can live in peace

and love with you?


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IIf people just stop and think about this,they will realize how unfortunate it is thatwe have fallen into this trap that we have to

kill to live This is a very pitifulsituation for human beings To letthemselves to be deprived ofcompassion, deprived of the loving

instinct of a human.They succumb to

Supreme Master ChingHai

- World-renownedhumanitarian,respected spiritual teacherand accomplished artist


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Mahatma Gandhi

- Major political and spiritual leaderof India and the Indianindependence movement

"TTo my mind, the life of a lambis no less precious than that

of a human being."


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Abraham Lincoln

- The 16th President of the UnitedStates

"II am in favor of animal rights aswell as human rights. That is

the way of a whole humanbeing."


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Bruna Angotti,student

"PPeople always tell me that it'suseless to be a vegetarian. But, if

I can save a single cow duringmy entire life, I'll be happy."


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II can foresee thatin the not-so-distant-future, people will eat

ONLY VEGETARIAN FOOD. Eatinganimal will be as unimaginable as iscannibalism today. And there will be

much more harmony and peace in

Dr. Janez Drnovsek

- Former late President ofSlovenia


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Links recommendedLinks recommended:

Supreme Master TelevisionSupreme Master TelevisionA loving, constructive and noble TV channel

http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com

Go Veg.comA website with a lot of information on vegetarianism

http://www.goveg.com/index.aspx

Vegetarian recipesBeautiful recipes with pictures

http://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/recipe/menu.htm
http://www.suprememastertv.com/http://www.goveg.com/index.aspxhttp://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/recipe/menu.htmhttp://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/recipe/menu.htmhttp://www.goveg.com/index.aspxhttp://www.suprememastertv.com/


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Main sources:

1. http://www.goveg.com/

2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html

3. http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2011/finalwebsite/problem/prese

nt/tech.shtml

4. http://www.fishinghurts.com/commercialFishing4.asp

5. http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com

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