i have a headache from crying so hard last night. i felt like i was going to burst with sorrow and anger at the time, but it seems all that happened is my entire store of water dribbled down my face and now i have a headache.
we were driving through heavy rain on our way to vegas. it was freezing outside and we didn't know it but we were about two miles away from a snowstorm. i was singing along to whatever was playing on the stereo and then i saw something out my window.
i saw a large truck with two trailers each carrying a maze of tiny wire boxes. inside each tiny box was a live chicken, huddled as close as possible to the next cage where another chicken might help keep the intense rain and cold off the ruffled feathers.
it was so cold that there is no doubt in my mind that almost all the chickens were dead from hypothermia. once we hit the snowstorm, their tiny, abused bodies would have frozen solid. after a life of living in a tiny cage, not being able to move, living in such close quarters that disease and violence and madness are a part of daily life, fed on a cocktail of drugs and the bodies of the dead, these chickens froze to death on an uncovered truck, not even able to huddle together for warmth.
i despair for humanity. i despair for an animal that can willfully inflict such suffering. i despair for humans that can show such sympathy for tsunami victims yet every day eat the flesh of these broken, mad, diseased and miserable creatures. and it seems that all i can do is despair, because nobody cares, people think it's funny or their right or just how things are but it's NOT, it's NOT how things are meant to be. once farmers at least gave the animals a good life before slaughter. now it's just life-long torture and misery. how, how can you let this happen?
please tell me. how can you let this happen?
we were driving through heavy rain on our way to vegas. it was freezing outside and we didn't know it but we were about two miles away from a snowstorm. i was singing along to whatever was playing on the stereo and then i saw something out my window.
i saw a large truck with two trailers each carrying a maze of tiny wire boxes. inside each tiny box was a live chicken, huddled as close as possible to the next cage where another chicken might help keep the intense rain and cold off the ruffled feathers.
it was so cold that there is no doubt in my mind that almost all the chickens were dead from hypothermia. once we hit the snowstorm, their tiny, abused bodies would have frozen solid. after a life of living in a tiny cage, not being able to move, living in such close quarters that disease and violence and madness are a part of daily life, fed on a cocktail of drugs and the bodies of the dead, these chickens froze to death on an uncovered truck, not even able to huddle together for warmth.
i despair for humanity. i despair for an animal that can willfully inflict such suffering. i despair for humans that can show such sympathy for tsunami victims yet every day eat the flesh of these broken, mad, diseased and miserable creatures. and it seems that all i can do is despair, because nobody cares, people think it's funny or their right or just how things are but it's NOT, it's NOT how things are meant to be. once farmers at least gave the animals a good life before slaughter. now it's just life-long torture and misery. how, how can you let this happen?
please tell me. how can you let this happen?
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thrashead:
You and s5 have a very happy new year. 
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