The Agony of Farmed Animals: Betrayed by the AVMA, Ignored by the Media, Abandoned By Almost Everyone
Activists protest outside the AVMA’s summer 2022 convention.
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In her past work as an emergency veterinarian, Gwendolen Reyes-Illg has cared for numerous animals suffering from heatstroke. Its symptoms are almost too disturbing to print: “chunks of mucosa and blood come pouring out of the rectum, and vomiting of blood is common as well,” as Reyes-Illg told me for a previous story. While Reyes-Illg treats her patients’ heatstroke, with VSD+, that same condition is induced on purpose, with the AVMA’s stamp of approval.
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The bitter civil war dividing American Veterinarians
If you look at the news and social media posts related to the ongoing avian influenza outbreak, the real problem and the injustice to most people is the rising cost of eggs at the store. What the chickens must endure in day-to-day conditions and influenza outbreak conditions is as newsworthy as a drizzle in the Pacific Northwest. When 1 million people in the US allegedly died from Covid-19 after about 2 years (a grossly exaggerated death toll as 94% of recorded Covid-19 deaths had an average of 4 pre-existing conditions like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes that led to the person’s death) that was considered MAJOR news. Yet 58 million birds dying due to a never-ending cascade of humanity’s carelessness, apathy, and fuckups is seemingly viewed as nothing. I’ve heard so many vegans state that nobody agrees with factory farming. What the hell are they talking about? The masses will happily support so-called factory farming literally no matter what.
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Egg Prices Rise As Evidence Humans Will Never Care Meaningfully About
Animals Rises Too
Photo by Unparalleled Suffering
A battery cage display with chickens at the Minnesota State Fair. Parents show their child how great of a life these chickens get. The top left part of the hanging display mentions that the cages “limit stress and aggression” and that the “death loss is very low.”