Well, according to Jolley over at www.cattlenetwork.com.  See, he’s talking about the HBO Special “Death on a Factory Farm”.  Here’s a snippet of his irreverent behavior insights:

Not that it was an unbiased look at “Factory Farming” practices, “Death on a Factory Farm” was really just the same old, same old sensationalism. If you thought you might have seen or heard something new, here’s a list of the absolutely unbiased resources the producers used:

-The Humane Farming Association

-Mercy For Animals

-The Humane Society of the United States

-Compassion Over Killing

-Vegan Outreach (Are you kidding me?)

-The Sustainable Table

-Animal Law Coalition

No, are you kidding me?  Let me get this straight.

The cattle industry uses the tools at it’s disposal, such as the internet, to speak out about the pros of factory farming and that’s okay, it’s not biased at all.  But the animals do not have the same luxury.  They have no way to speak out against the horrors they face or how their lives are taken from them.  The organizations listed above do just that.  They provide a voice to the voiceless because there is a need to do so.  If they seem biased, it’s probably because they stand for the rights of the animals that the cattle industry take away.  Of course the cattle industry doesn’t like that.  According to this Jolley fellow the HBO special was simply “propaganda”.  That the special was showcasing select instances that were not and are not a part of everyday factory farm life.

Here’s the thing kids.  Factory farms, by their very nature, are inhumane.  The human has decided to create a business out of life and death.  They take sentient beings, animals that have the ability to create life, and manipulate them to serve the human’s own purposes.  And they do it without regard to the animals right to life.  Whether you “euthanize” the animal is irrelevant.   It is the act of taking the life of the animal that is the relevant part.

Humans are supposed to be a superior species.  We have the ability to think, rationalize, and comprehend complex subjects.  We have advanced our species through the use of technology.  The question is not “are we more powerful than a chicken?”.  The question is “what does the human do with the power that is possessed?”.  Using our knowledge to imagine and create torture chambers (IE: factory farms) for animals is to misuse and abuse that power.  There is no need to kill to eat.  The human has proven over and over that we can subsist on a plant based diet.  Why then do we continue to torture these animals?  There is no need.  To do so is to loose a very basic part of your humanity.

Jolley goes on to say “…HBO got a dandy piece of yellow journalism that will be replayed a dozen times over the next few weeks, gaining new converts to the animal rights movement every time.”  Oh no!  Not humans seeing other humans acting inhumane to sentient beings, then using that knowledge to change in a positive, powerful way.  If the cattle people are worried about “converts” they must realizes that what they are doing is wrong.  Otherwise how would they know that if the public could see what they were doing then we wouldn’t eat meat ever again?

It’s time we took a hard look at the people who run these “industries”.  What kinds of people justify torture on an everyday basis?  I don’t understand how these humans can live their lives doing this to other animals.  Where is the empathy gene?  Where is the compassion?  How can one claim to understand love and experience it with humans but draw the line to any other animal?  I simply don’t understand it.

But then again, I’m just one of those “converts”.