THE UNHEARD

CRY
 A letter from
an unheard voice
Dear Human Beings,
I’m a farm animal raised for your
food.
I want to talk to you while I am still
alive.
Do you know how we would like to
be like you, running under the
But most of us live an entire
life
of suffering in factory farms,
without any freedom to do
what
we want. Our life is completely
in
your hands – you, the human
beings.
Have you ever asked yourself:
how do we live?
It is nothing about love,
peace, happiness, comfort
and healthy;
instead,
there are only stress, fight,
suffering, torture, cruelty,
disease and killing!
If you don’t believe me,
please read this…
 Factory farming
Factory farming is the practice of
raising
farm animals in large
warehouses with confinement at
high density in order
to produce the highest
output at the lowest cost.
Being crammed into filthy
confinement systems, these
• In factory farms, drugs are often
added
to the food of animals to make
them grow faster, larger and
to keep them alive in
conditions that would otherwise
kill them. These additives include
antibiotics, pesticides,
growth hormones, chemical
additives, colorants and
other drugs.
Most farmed animals are
slaughtered at just a few
months old – a fraction of
their natural lifespan.
Natural At which
Animals lifespan Age typically
Cattle 25-30 years 1-2 killed
years
Sheep 15 years 4 months
Pigs 15 years 3-6 months
Chickens 10 years 6 weeks
Laying hens 10 years 18 months
 Chickens
Chickens
are bred and drugged to grow
so large so quickly that their
legs, organs cannot keep up,
causing heart attacks, organ
failure. Many become crippled
under their own weight and
die eventually because they
can’t reach the water nozzles
 In order to keep the hens from
pecking one another out of frustration
in the crowded cages, chicks have a
part of their sensitive beak sliced off
with a burning-hot blade without any
pain relief; many are not able to eat
due to the pain and die from
dehydration and a weakened immune
system.
As male chicks cannot lay eggs
and aren’t
the same breeds as those chickens
raised
for meat, they are of no value to
the egg
annually,
or meat industries. Shortly after
usually BYhundreds of millions of
hatching,
GASSING,male chicks are killed
unwanted
CRUSHING,
OR
SUFFOCATIO
 Cattle
• Bull calves raised for beef are marked,
without painkiller, with hot fire irons
into their flesh for identification, causing
them third degree burns.
• They are castrated and dehorned, also
without
any anesthesia.
Milking cows are REPEATEDLY
IMPREGNATED
with artificial insemination every year
to force
the animals to continue giving milk.
They are hooked up, several times a
day, to machines that often tear their
udders, causing painful inflammation.
In the U.S., cows are fed with powerful
hormones and forced to produce about
10 TIMES as much milk as they
naturally would.
Calves are generally taken from their
mothers upon birth, causing mother
cows extreme suffering. They are
confined to tiny crates, chained by
the neck to keep them almost
completely immobilized so that their
flesh
diet stays
low tender.
in iron They are fed a
with little
liquid
nutritive value in order
to make their flesh
white.
Frightened, sick, and
alone, they are killed
after only
 Fish
• Modern fishing technology was
built
to catch as many fish as possible
at the expense of the collapse of
marine species
and the health of ocean
ecosystems.
• 90% of large fish populations
have been exterminated in the
past 50 years.
• Bottom trawling is a common fishing
method with a huge bag-shaped nets that
scraps the ocean floor with a rigid metal
frame at a speed of 7km/h. This method
dig up the surface of the seabed,
catching rocks, corals, marine animals
and fishes in their paths, disrupting the
bottom habitat and wiping
out hundreds of tons of animals out
Bottomof the
ocean. trawling is
destroying
our ocean
floor.
Bottom-trawling nets rip hundreds of tons of
animals out of
the ocean, squeezing some of them so tightly
against the sides
• Ghost Fishing: when fishing nets
or traps are lost due to storms or
negligence, they continue to catch
fish until the net becomes
of marine animals
completely full. Hundreds or
caught
thousands are
completely
wasted. Fish deaths
caused by ghost
fishing may be up to
30% as large as
annual landings
A shark in net.
caught by a ghost
Now, dear human beings,
let me continue my letter.
I always wonder -
Do you really need
our flesh to survive?
 Would there be a day
where
our suffering and fear will
end,
and we can live in peace
and love with you?
 Supreme Master Ching
Hai
- World-renowned
humanitarian,
respected spiritual teacher
and accomplished artist
“If people just stop and think about this,
they will realize how unfortunate it is that
we have fallen into this trap that we have to
kill to live… This is a very pitiful
situation for human beings… To let
themselves to be deprived of
compassion, deprived of the loving
instinct of a human. They succumb to
 Mahatma Gandhi
- Major political and spiritual leader
of India and the Indian
independence movement

"To my mind, the life of a lamb

is no less precious than that
of a human being."
 Abraham Lincoln
- The 16th President of the United
States

"I am in favor of animal rights as

well as human rights. That is
the way of a whole human
being."
 Bruna Angotti,
student

"People always tell me that it's

useless to be a vegetarian. But, if
I can save a single cow during
my entire life, I'll be happy."
 Dr. Janez Drnovsek
- Former late President of
Slovenia

“I can foresee that in the not-so-

distant-future, people will eat
ONLY VEGETARIAN FOOD. Eating
animal will be as unimaginable as is
cannibalism today. And there will be
much more harmony and peace in
 Links recommended:
recommended
 Supreme Master Television
A loving, constructive and noble TV channel
http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com

 Go Veg.com
A website with a lot of information on vegetarianism
http://www.goveg.com/index.aspx

 Vegetarian recipes
Beautiful recipes with pictures
http://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/recipe/menu.htm
 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