Run free Eight Belles..and all the horses that have lost their lives to racing.Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig--an animal easily as intelligent as a dog--that becomes the Christmas ham.But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. Plutarch (AD 46-120)All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals~Peter Singer ~It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Ramon Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was “second-legger,†a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour. The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren’t.“They die,†said Moreno, “piece by piece.â€~ The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes of years past, which are still portrayed in children’s books, have been replaced by windowless metal sheds, wire cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems—what is now known as “factory farming.†Farmed animals have no legal protection from horrific abuses that would be illegal if they were inflicted on dogs or cats STOP BY YOUR LOCAL HUMANE SOCIETY AND TAKE HOME A FRIEND TODAY! liberation to all animals who suffer at human hands.