i feel like posting

2008-06-20T04:28:40Z

nevermind, no i don't.

world of warcraft

2006-05-30T02:13:21Z

now that i have a nice, new computer, i can run world of warcraft on it quite nicely. DOES ANYONE ELSE PLAY WOW?!? i need people i know on there, it'd be nice.

do it!

2006-02-21T07:04:47Z

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fetuscake @ 2005-12-14T19:24:00

2005-12-14T15:25:44Z

i found this story about someone's cat whom they had applied flea medication (Hartz) to, and it's really sad. So read it before you poison your cat.

factory farm cruelty essay i wrote

2005-12-01T01:24:10Z

even after 2 years of being a vegetarian and being into animal rights...I still cry when I really focus on it. and why not? it makes me feel awful how animals are treated today. anyway, this is an essay I wrote for a class. i know it's not the best piece of writing ever, but it's something i really care about. feedback would be appreciated. if you read it.

Unheard Cries

Maybe people are too concerned with their own lives, or simply aren’t interested in how animals raised for food are treated. The majority of these animals are raised on factory farms. Most people have no idea of the massive amount of animals that are slaughtered each year. Not only do they not know how many died, but how they were treated before and during their deaths. In 1998, the worldwide number of animals killed for food was 43.2 billion (http://www.avg.com), that doesn’t even include the animals killed for their fur and sport. The human population of the world is a little less than 6.5 billion. That means the amount of animals killed for food is almost seven times more than the amount of humans living in the world. Can you even fathom that many animals being slaughtered? The fact that most of these animals suffer their entire lives only to be gruesomly killed is devastating.

Imagine being born in a horrible, dark, messy place. Then you are taken away from your mother hours after birth. You grow up in a cramped stall and are fed the least expensive food by your owners. Most of the time this food contains the ground up bodies of your unfortunate friends around you. You’re beat, tortured, and prodded by uncaring workers so you’ll move. You never feel grass under your feet, sun on your back, or the happiness of romping in a field with others. The only time you experience the outside world is the trip to the truck that takes you to the slaughter house. You don’t know what’s going on, you just know something is different. You arrive at the slaughter house and are hung upside down by your leg. How painful, all the weight of your large frame on your tiny leg. You are given no pain-killers before your throat is sliced and jabbed as you hang upside down; your hot blood running down your face and splashing onto the ground below. Your last goodbye is the cries and screams of the animals around you. This is the life and death of a factory-farmed cow. They are treated like they don’t even feel, love, or think. The cruelty they suffer is impossible to imagine to more than most people.

All this happens to factory-farmed animals so people can buy their nicely cut and packaged meat in a grocery store. How convenient that most people can do that instead of raising and killing their own animals. We don’t have to see the gruesome conditions these animals are raised in and the horrible ways they are killed. There’s this quote I read:
“If slaughter houses were made with glass walls, we would all be vegetarians.”
-Unknown
Maybe it’s true, maybe not. But I’m sure meat eaters would be thankful they didn’t have to watch their steak be slaughtered before it made it’s way to their plate; if they even considered the amount of cruelty that went into the meal in front of them.

The only thing that could reduce, or preferably stop, the awful treatment these factory farm animals suffer is to quit eating meat. I would suggest everyone eat free-range meat if they chose to eat meat at all, but that would only increase the demand for free-range meat. Which could ultimately lead these free range farms to convert to more “efficient” ways of raising their animals; meaning cheaper, easier ways, like how animals are raised on factory farms. If everyone were to quit eating meat; if they were compassionate enough towards animals to make such a commitment such as vegetarianism, it would let more animals live happier lives and be treated like they should be, rather than the way they currently are.

The cries of these factory-farm animals are not heard by everyone. Not even all vegetarians that choose to quit eating meat for ethical reasons have heard them. But it’s no secret what goes on in these factory farms today. The information is out there and everyone should be informed. The cruelty and pain these innocent lives suffer is no way that anyone, human or not, deserves to be treated. If us humans don’t care about these animals; if we let these living conditions continue, then they’ll never stop. Animal voices are ignored by humans; they can’t communicate to us the agony they experience in these factory farms. You all heard what happens to them. So, if we don’t do something to help them, who will?

fetuscake @ 2005-06-05T11:28:00

2005-06-05T18:28:38Z

Friends Only

I'm not that picky...
just comment and i'll consider.