Any kind person who still eats meat
owes it to the animals not to look away
 It’s a major victory: Following more than 100 demonstrations against Safeway and its subsidiaries and lots of talk, the company agreed to improve animal welfare. Among other things, Safeway will:
• immediately conduct unannounced audits of Seaboard Farms, a major pig-meat supplier, where a PETA undercover investigator videotaped screaming pigs being beaten, bludgeoned and slammed to the floor
• implement new guidelines from the Food Marketing Institute that are expected to include unannounced inspections of all its slaughterhouses, less overcrowding for laying hens, kinder handling procedures for chickens and cutting off suppliers that starve chickens to induce an extra laying cycle.
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Food and Social Justice Project Celebrate the Safeway Victory
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If this works out, it will definitely be a huge step forward, making life less miserable on the factory farms and in the slaughterhouses. It will stop many cows from having their hooves cut off while they are still conscious; it may stop some workers from slinging chickens around like sacks of flour. But it won’t stop pigs from being forced to sleep above their own waste, blackening their lungs with ammonia fumes. Nor will it stop ignorant workers on the auction chutes from kicking frightened horses, cows and pigs in the face when the panicked animals hesitate, desperately trying to figure out which way to go. While there is such a demand for meat and milk, these abuses won’t go away.
Any kind person who still eats meat owes it to the animals not to look away, to click on the “Slaughterhouse” link at GoVeg.com and view the “Excerpts” section—please!
To help make the transition to a humane diet as easy as pie, we include recipes in each issue of Animal Times. This month’s fabulous, low-fat “summertime slimmers” will lighten anyone’s conscience and waistline.
Please pass them on.
Thank you.
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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