Mercy for Animals?

A two-part series on animal rights, factory farming, the industrialization of food, and life and death in cages

Female pigs in restrictive “gestation crates,” some of which had bitten at the bars so much that their blood can be seen on the bars and below. This was taken by an investigator with the Human Society of the United States, who worked inside the Virginia factory farm for one month. HSUS

Part One: An interview with Matt Rice Director of Investigations Mercy For Animals

Animal (noun) an·i·mal ˈa-nə-məl: a living thing that is not a human being or plant: any living thing that is not a plant: a person who behaves in a wild, aggressive, or unpleasant way.

I find circuses deeply offensive. We are just beginning to recognize animals as important in their own right. Circuses throw us back to the Middle Ages.

— Desmond Morris, zoologist and animal behaviorist