World Farm Animals Day seeks humane treatment

One hundred years ago, The Jungle,famed social critic Upton Sinclair's masterpiece, exposed the filthy conditions and cruel treatment of animals and workers in Chicago slaughterhouses. The book electrified the nation, led to enactment of the first Pure Food and Drug Act, and is generally credited with spawning the U.S. consumer and labor union movements.

Unfortunately, it did little to improve slaughterhouse working conditions and even less to reduce the cruelty of animal slaughter. Subsequent Humane Methods of Slaughter Acts of 1958 and 1978 were never funded or implemented. For the past 24 years, World Farm Animals Day (wfad.org) has continued in Sinclair's footsteps, exposing the atrocious conditions of animals raised for food in the world's factory farms and slaughterhouses.

On Monday (Gandhi's birthday), I and hundreds of other caring folks in all 50 states and two dozen other countries are planning local educational events including information tables, exhibits, leafleting, marches and vigils.

It seems to me that folks who choose to eat animals owe them at least a decent life and truly humane slaughter. They should refuse to patronize a meat industry that can not meet these minimal standards. From Mark Wilcox

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