Ethical Reasons

ETHICS

ANTI-HUNGER ORGANIZATIONS

As over 1,000,000,000 people around the world go hungry. There are thousands of programs helping hungry people around the clock by providing food for them.

Programs such as "Hungry Kids International", a project run by Bob and Betty King that helps needy children in Quemado, Texas. They run an orphanage that takes care of abandoned Mexican children.

World Hunger Year (WHY) is an organization that aims to solve the hunger crisis at the grassroots level by supporting programs such as job training , teaching people how to grow their own food, assistance farming, and after-school classes. WHY has been working with communities in the United States and around the world fighting hunger since 1975.

www.actionagainsthunger.org

Recognized worldwide as a leader in the fight against hunger, Action Against Hunger delivers programs in over 40 countries, specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters and longer-term assistance to people in distress.

Action Against Hunger is an international, non-governmental, non-religious organization that was created in Paris in 1979. Since then, the organization has developed within the framework of an interdependent international network, with headquarters in France (Paris), the US (New York), the UK (London), and Spain (Madrid).

MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS

Mistreatment of animals has caused many people to stand up and speak out against such treatment. As we advance in technology, their is less and less need to eat meat, as the availability of fruits and vegetables and other foods provide a healthier diet than a diet that is centered around meat.

Many famous celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Alec Baldwin, and Alyssa Milano have come out and criticized meat farm factories for their unethical treatment of animals in order to supply for the demand of meat. There are thousands of organizations such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) @ peta.org, Animal Concerns @ animalconcerns.org, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine @ pcrm.org, and many others are promoting vegetarianism as a healthier lifestyle that is compassionate for animals and reduces the risk of heart disease, the number one killer in the United States.

Chickens are considered by some to be the most tortured animals on the planet. On today’s factory farms, chickens are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds, wire cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems. They will never raise their families, root in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural to them. They won’t even feel the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks bound for slaughter.

To mark cows for identification, ranchers restrain the animals and push hot fire irons into their flesh, causing third degree burns, as they bellow in pain and attempt to escape. Male calves’ testicles are ripped from their scrotums without pain relievers, and the horns of cows raised for beef are cut or burned off. While “on the range,” most cows receive inadequate veterinary care, and as a result, many die from infection and injury.

An employee spy with a hidden camera videotaped neuroscience experiments carried out at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from last December until March. The videotape shows possible violations of accepted practices for procedures using mice and rats, together with researchers' on-camera explanations of why they were breaking the rules.

Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina) has introduced an amendment to an agricultural bill that would block the extension of the Animal Welfare Act to cover rodents and birds. The video shows neurological procedures on rodents that may not have been properly anaesthetized, experiments on rodents with diseases and injuries, and rodents that were still alive after being discarded as waste.