Course: WVA 101 Local Food and Cuisine

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PETA

On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and confined to wire cages, gestation crates, barren dirt lots, and other cruel confinement systems. These animals will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural and important to them. Most won't even feel the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks bound for slaughter. The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes of years past are now distant memories.

Click here to access the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) website.

Please read the following sections on their website:

- Beef Industry
- Meat and the Environment
- Meat Production Wastes Natural Resources