On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:03:47 +0100, Nick Maclaren wrote:

http://www.anonymous.org.il/english.htm

Anonymous for Animal Rights
[...]
Looking animals in the eyes

Especially effective is our research and investigation project.
'Anonymous' activists have visited and documented dozens of facilities
where animals are being exploited. We have photographed hens in
battery cages, male chicks left to die at the hatchery, sows and
calves in individual cages, the violence in the foie gras (goose
liver) industry, the gross scenes of ritual slaughter, and more.
Pictures we took made their way to national media, the Knesset
(Israeli Parliament) and the courts, having strong impact.

· Because there are so many different situations
involved in the raising of meat animals, it is completely
unfair to the animals to think of them all in the same
way, as "ARAs" appear to do. To think that all of it is
cruel, and to think of all animals which are raised for
the production of food in the same way, oversimplifies
and distorts one's interpretation of the way things
really are. Just as it would to think that there is no
cruelty or abuse at all.

Beef cattle spend nearly their entire lives outside
grazing, which is not a bad way to live. Veal are
confined to such a degree that they appear to have
terrible lives, so there's no reason to think of both
groups of animals in the same way.
Chickens raised as fryers and broilers, and egg
producers who are in a cage free environment--as well as
the birds who parent all of them, and the birds who parent
battery hens--are raised in houses, but not in cages. The
lives of those birds are not bad. Battery hens are confined
to cages, and have what appear to be terrible lives, so
there is no reason to think of battery hens and the other
groups in the same way. ·