Somehow I imagined that elsewhere in the world, animals were being treated horrifically and treated like things instead of living, breathing beings but in Canada, everything was hunkey-dorey.
At the Festival I spoke to many animal activists and one in particular awoke me. A man from the Animal Defense League told me he had seen first hand the condition on factory farms in Canada, and he said the state of affairs in raising animal for meat in Canada was just as bad as in the States.
Today, I received a quiz from PETA to see how much I knew about the horrors of Factory Farming.
I thought the quiz was very informative and feel every Canadian citizen should at least be made aware of the facts. Maybe seeing actual numbers can touch you and help you see which changes you can make in your life in order to live more compassionately.
I know i`m never eating eggs or dairy again after hearing this information...even though they don`t die right away when we take their products, these animals suffer their entire short, miserable life and end up at the same place as the cows and chickens raised for meat.
Quiz: Factory Farming Cruelty 101
1) How Many aniallls are killed for food in Canada each year?
a) 640,000
b) 6,400,000
c) 640,000,000
2) The natural life span of a dairy cow is 25 years. How long does a cow live on a dairy factory farm before being declared "spent" and sent to slaughter?
a) 4 to 5 years
b) 9 to 10 years
c) 14 to 15 years
3) Approximately how many animals arrive dea at federally inspected slaughterhouses in Canada each year?
a) 30,000
b) 300,000
c) 3,000,000
4) Regarding these dead-on-arrival animals, approximately how many prosecutions by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are pursued annually?
a) 6
b) 60
c) 600
5) Every year, more than 100 million male chicks of egg-laying hens are tossed into bags to suffocate or thrown alive into high-speed grinders?
True or False
6) A standard "battery cage" is about the size of a file drawer. How many hens are typically confined to this small space?
a) 3
b) 7
c) 11
7) Animal behaviorists consider pigs to be smarter than 3 year old children.
True or False
8) What happens to male piglets after birth on a factory farm?
a) Their testicles are cut out of their scrotum.
b) Their tails are chopped off.
c) Their teeth are clipped in half.
d) Their ears are mutilated.
e) All of the above.
9) How long does it take for a typical slaughterhouse to kill 1,100 pigs?
a) one hour
b) one day
c) one week
10) How many Canadian federal laws exist governing the treatment of farmed animals?
a) 0
b) 15
c) 50
Answers:
1) c
2) a
3) c
4) a
5) True
6) c
7) True
8) e
9) a
10)a
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