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Chicks--
Alicia Silverstone
Alison Lohman
Alyssa Milano
Amber Benson
Angela Bassett
Anna Nicole Smith
Anne Hathaway
Annie Lennox
Avril Lavigne
Brigitte Bardot
Bryce Dallas Howard
Carré Otis
Carrie Underwood
Charlotte Ross
Chelsea Clinton
Chely Wright
Chrissie Hynde
Chynna Phillips
Daniele Gaither
Daphne Zuniga
Daryl Hannah
Ember Swift
Emmylou Harris
Erykah Badu
Fiona Apple
Grace Slick
Heather Mills McCartney
India.Arie
Jacklyn Lick
Jane Siberry
Jennie Garth
Joan Jett
Joanna Lumley
Johanna Fateman
Jorja Fox
Joss Stone
Joy Bryant
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Kim Basinger
Kristen Bell
Kylie Bax
Laura Flores
Lauren Bush
Linda Blair
Lindsay Wagner
Lori Petty
Marilu Henner
Mary Tyler Moore
Monica Potter
Naomi Watts
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Portman
Nellie McKay
Nicollette Sheridan
Nina Hagen
P!nk
Pamela Anderson
Peaches Geldof
Persia White
Princess Superstar
Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachel Miner
Radha Mitchell
Renee Goldsberry
Sadie Frost
Sarah Chalke
Serenity
Shalom Harlow
Shania Twain
Shannon Elizabeth
Sheryl Lee
Stella McCartney
Summer Phoenix
Tatjana Patitz
Tatum O'Neal
Thora Birch
T'Keyah "Crystal" Keymáh
Traci Bingham
Vanessa A. Williams
Vanessa Ferlito
Veruschka
Wendie Malick
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Dudes--Alan Davies
Alec Baldwin
Alexander Greenwald
Andre 3000
Anthony Kiedis
Benji Madden
Ben Kenney
Billy Baldwin
Billy Martin
Boy George
Brandon Brooks
Brian Bell
Bryan Adams
Carl Lewis
Casey Affleck
Casey Kasem
César López "Vampiro"
Chris Martin
Common
Corey Feldman
Damon Albarn
Dan Abrams
Daniel Johns
Dave Meyers
David Duchovny
Dick Gregory
Don Imus
Ed Begley Jr.
Eddie Vedder
Ed Templeton
Enrique Bunbury
Eric Stoltz
Esai Morales
Forest Whitaker
Gary Anthony Williams
G. Gordon Liddy
Grant Aleksander
Greg Cipes
Ian Grushka
Ian McKellen
Ilan Chester
James Cromwell
Jared Leto
J.D. Fortune
Jeph Howard
Jeru the Damaja
Joaquin Phoenix
Joel Madden
John Cleese
John Feldmann
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Juan Gabriel
k-os
Kal Penn
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Kenny Loggins
Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Nealon
Kristoff St. John
KRS-One
Laban Pheidias
Larry Mullen Jr.
Leonard Nimoy
Little Richard
M-1
Martin Kemp
Martin Shaw
Masta Killa
Michael Ausiello
Michael Bolton
Michael Franti
Mickey Madden
Milo Ventimiglia
Moby
Morrissey
Mos Def
Murphy Lee
Nick Zinner
Noah Wyle
Omar Epps
Orlando Jones
Phil Collen
Paul McCartney
Perry Farrell
Peter Dinklage
Prince
Prodigy
Q-Tip
Ricky Williams
Rikki Rockett
Russell Simmons
RZA
Scott Bourne
Sean Astin
Serj Tankian
Steve Jocz
Thom Yorke
Tobey Maguire
Todd Oldham
Tony La Russa
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Will Estes
Woody Harrelson
Ziggy Marley
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What am i gunna eat if i go vegetarian?
Breakfast (Dry)
All-Bran
Alpha Bits
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
Apple Jacks
Berry Burst Cheerios
Bran Flakes
Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch
Cheerios
Cinnamon Crunch Crispix
Cinnamon Krunchers
Cinnamon Life
Cocoa Pebbles
Cocoa Puffs
Cocoa Rice Krispies
Complete Oat Bran
Complete Wheat Bran
Corn Chex
Corn Flakes
Corn Pops
Cracklin' Oat Bran
Crispix
Frosted Cheerios
Frosted Flakes
Fruit By the Foot
Fruit Harvest
Fruit Loops
Fruity Pebbles
Grape Nuts
Just Right
Kix
Life Cereal
Mueslix
Multi-Bran Chex
Multigrain Cheerios
Nature's Valley Granola Bars (Brown Sugar)
Pop Tarts (Unfrosted Apple Cinnamon)
Pop Tarts (Unfrosted Blueberry)
Pop Tarts (Unfrosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon)
Pop Tarts (Unfrosted Strawberry)
Quaker Apples and Cinnamon
Quaker Cinnamon and Spice
Quaker Date and Walnut
Quaker Oatmeal (Raisin)
Quaker Raisins and Spice
Raisin Bran
Reese's Puffs
Rice Chex
Rice Krispies
Trix
Wheat Chex
Beverages
Alpine Spiced Cider
Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate (Chocolate Hazelnut)
Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate (Chocolate Mocha)
Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate (Double Chocolate)
Ghirardelli Hot Chocolate (White Mocha)
Ghirardelli Sweet Ground Chocolate (Baking Cocoa)
Hershey Syrup (Chocolate)
Hershey Syrup (Strawberry)
Kool-Aid Drink Mix
Nescafe Ice Java Iced Coffee Syrup
Nestlé Nesquick Syrup (Chocolate)
Nestlé Nesquik Syrup (Strawberry)
Nestlé Nesquik Syrup (Very Vanilla)
Snacks
Airheads Taffy
Anna's Almond Cinnamon Thins
Anna's Ginger Thins
Archway Ginger Snaps
Blow Pops
Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy
Brach's Orange Slices
Brach's Root Beer Barrels
Brach's Star Brites
Bremner Wafers
Brownstone Baking Co. Mini Bagel Crisps (Garlic)
Carr's Table Wafer
Carr's Tea Biscuits
Charms lollipops
Chocolove Dark Chocolate bar
Chocolove Orange Peel (Dark Chocolate Bar)
Cracker Jacks
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum Dums
Entenmann's Fudge Delights Fudge & Mint Cookies
Famous Amos Sandwich Cookies (Chocolate)
Famous Amos Sandwich Cookies (Oatmeal Macaroon)
Famous Amos Sandwich Cookies (Peanut Butter)
Famous Amos Sandwich Cookies (Vanilla)
Ferrara Wafer Swirls With Chocolate
Fireballs
Food Lion Animal Cookies
Food Lion Ginger Snaps
Food Lion Oatmeal Cookies
Food Lion Saltines
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Assorted)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Chocolate Creme)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Chocolate Fudge)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Double Creme-O's)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Duplex)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Mini Chocolate & Vanilla
Cremes)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Peanut Butter)
Food Lion Sandwich Cookies (Vanilla)
Food Lion Snack Crackers
Food Lion Sugar Cookies
Fritos (Barbecue)
Fritos (Original)
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
Grandma's Peanut Butter Sandwich Cremes
Hain Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes
Herr's Salsa and Lime Tortilla Chips
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba Bubblegum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Keebler Animal Crackers
Keebler Club Crackers
Keebler Vienna Fingers
Kettle White Popcorn
Kool-Aid Gels
Krispy Kreme Fruit Pies
Laffy Taffy
Lance Capitain's Wafers
Lance Choc-O Cookies
Lance Malt Crackers With Peanut Butter
Lance Nekot Cookies With Peanut Butter
Lance Nut-O Lunch Cookies (Peanut Butter)
Lance Nut-O Lunch Cookies (Strawberry Creme)
Lance Peanut Bar
Lance Sugar Wafers (Strawberry Creme)
Lance Sugar Wafers (Vanilla Creme)
Lance Toasty Crackers With Peanut Butter
Lance Van-O Lunch Cookies
Lay's Blue Corn Chips
Lay's Potato Chips (Natural Country Barbecue)
Lay's Potato Chips (Thick Cut Sea Salt)
Lay's Stax
Lay's WOW! Potato Chips
Lay's Yellow Corn Chips
Lemonheads
Lundberg Brown Rice Cakes
Mambas
Manischewitz Whole Wheat Matzo, Unsalted Matzo, and Savory
Garlic Matzo
Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
Melba Toast (Rye)
Melba Toast (Sesame)
Melba Toast (Wheat)
Mike and Ike
Munchos
Murray Butter Cookies
Murray Cinnamon Grahams
Murray Coconut Bars
Murray Southern Kitchen Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Murray Sugar-Free Vanilla Wafers
Nabisco Ginger Snaps
Nabisco Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Nabisco Oatmeal Cookies
Nabisco Original Graham Crackers
Nabisco Teddy Grahams (Chocolate and Cinnamon)
Nabisco Uh-oh Oreos, Spring Oreos, and Chocolate Creme
Oreos
Nestle Double Chocolate Thin Mints
New York Flatbreads (Everything, Garlic, and Fat-Free)
Newman O's
Now and Later
Nutter Butter Bites
Panda Licorice
PezRing pop lollipops
Pure De-Lite Coconut Bars
Quaker Apple Cinnamon Rice Cakes
Ritz Regular Crackers
Ritz Whole Wheat Crackers
Sesame Royale Breadsticks
Skittles' Mints
Smarties (U.S. version only)
Snackwells Cracked Pepper Crackers
Snyder's Jalapeno Pretzel Bites
Snyder's Pretzel Sticks (Pumpernickel/Onion and Oat Bran)
Sour Patch Kids
Soy Crisps (Barbecue, Deep Sea Salt, and Garlic Onion)
Stacey's Pita Chips (Baked and Taxarkana Hot)
Starburst (jelly beans and hard candy)
Starburst Jelly Beans
Starburst Jelly Beans
Sun Chips Original flavor
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Toasteds Crackers (Sesame and Wheat)
Town House Original Crackers
Triscuit Crackers (Original, Reduced Fat, Garlic Herb, and Roasted Garlic)
Triscuits
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
Utz Puffed Caramel Corn
Wasa Crispbread (Light Rye and Multi-Grain)
Wheat Thins (Original, Multi-Grain, and Reduced Fat)
Zesta Original Crackers
Zotz
Condiments
Arnold Premium Seasoned Stuffing
Betty Crocker Bac-o's Bacon Flavor Bits
Brianna's French Dressing
Brianna's Poppy Seed Dressing
Brianna's Santa Fe Blend Dressing
Campbell's Franco-American Mushroom Gravy
Classico Pasta Sauces (Roasted Garlic and Spicy Red Pepper)
Dona Maria Mole
El Paso Enchilada Sauce
Girard's Champagne Dressing
Girard's Italian Dressing
Girard's Original French Dressing
Girard's Raspberry Dressing
Hidden Valley Ranch Dip Mix
Hunt's Manwich Sauce
Kame Marinades (Red Chili)
Kame Marinades (Sweet Teriyaki)
Kame Marinades (Thai Coconut)
Kame Marinades (Wasabi with Ginger)
Kellogg's Corn Flakes Crumbs
Knorr Red Bell Pepper Pesto Sauce Mix
Kraft Balsamic Dressing
Kraft Catalina Dressing
Kraft Classic Italian Vinaigrette Dressing
Kraft Creamy Italian Dressing
Kraft Fat Free Italian Dressing
Kraft French Dressing
Kraft French Fries Seasoning
Lipton Recipe Soup and Dip Mix (Onion Mushroom)
Lipton Recipe Soup and Dip Mix (Onion)
Lipton Recipe Soup and Dip Mix (Vegetable)
McCormick Bac'n Pieces
McCormick Spaghetti Sauce Mix
Newman's Light Balsamic Dressing
Newman's Light Italian Dressing
Newman's Light Raspberry and Walnut Dressing
Newman's Olive Oil and Vinegar Dressing
Newman's Red Wine Vinaigrette and Olive Oil Dressing
Newman's Regular Balsamic Dressing
Old El Paso Taco Seasoning Mix
Pepperidge Farms Cubed Herb Seasoned Stuffing
Prego Mushroom Pasta Sauce
Ragu Pizza Sauce
Smucker's Goober Grape Peanut Butter
Baked Goods
Arnold's Carb-Counting Multi-Grain Bread
Arnold's Jewish Rye Bread
Arnold's Potato Sandwich Rolls
Arnold's Sesame Sandwich Rolls
Arnold's Stone Ground Whole Wheat Bread
Arnold's Wheat Sandwich Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Hoagie Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Jewish Rye Bread
Cobblestone Mill Kaiser Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Onion Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Party Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Pumpernickel Bread
Cobblestone Mill White Sub Rolls
Cobblestone Mill Whole Wheat Bread
Dutch Country Soft Potato
Dutch Country Whole Wheat
Krispy Kreme Fruit Pies (Apple)
Krispy Kreme Fruit Pies (Cherry)
Krispy Kreme Fruit Pies (Peach)
Little Debbie Cake Donuts
Pepperidge Farm Dark Pumpernickel Bread
Pepperidge Farm Rye and Pumpernickel Swirl Bread
Thomas New York Style Bagels (Blueberry)
Thomas New York Style Bagels (Cinnamon Swirl)
Thomas New York Style Bagels (Everything)
Thomas New York Style Bagels (Plain)
Thomas Toaster Bagels (Cinnamon Raisin)
Thomas Toaster Bagels (Plain)
Refrigerated and Frozen Foods
Anne's Flat Dumplings
Athens Phyllo Dough
Athens Phyllo Mini Shells
Calaro Guacamole
Edy's No-Sugar Bars
Edy's Whole Fruit Bars
Fleischmann's Light Margarine
Food Lion French Fries
Food Lion Hash Browns
Food Lion Restaurant Fries
Food Lion Seasoned Curly Fries
Food Lion Shoe String Fries
General Mills Italian-Style Vegetables
General Mills Roasted Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs
Lender's Bagels (Cinnamon Raisin)
Lender's Bagels (Onion)
Lender's Bagels (Plain)
Luigi's Italian Ice
Minute Maid Frozen Lemonade Bars
Mrs. Smith's Deep Dish Pie Crust
Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets
Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Shells
Pillsbury Cornbread Twists
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Pillsbury Turnover (Apple)
Pillsbury Turnover (Cherry)
Pinata Flour Tortillas
Safeway Whipped Cream (canned)
Simply Potatoes Diced Potato with Onion
Simply Potatoes New Potato Wedges
Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns
Smart Balance Light Buttery Spread
Smart Beat Super Light Margarine
Smart Squeeze Fat-Free Margarine
Smuckers Uncrustables Peanut Butter and Grape Jelly
Smuckers Uncrustables Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam
SuperPretzel Baked Soft Pretzels
Baking
Aunt Jemima Coffee Cake Mix
Aunt Jemima Whole Wheat Pancake/Waffle Mix
Betty Crocker Bisquick
Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
Green Giant Cream Style Sweet Corn
Hodgson Mill Bran Muffin Mix
Hodgson Mill Caraway Rye Bread Mix
Hodgson Mill White Bread Mix
Hodgson Mill Whole Wheat Gingerbread Mix
Jello-O Instant Pudding (Banana Creme)
Jello-O Instant Pudding (Chocolate)
Jello-O Instant Pudding (Lemon)
Jello-O Instant Pudding (Vanilla)
Keebler
Keebler Ready Crust Pie Crusts (Shortbread)
Kraft Baker's Angel Flake Coconut
Martha White Pizza Crust Mix
Old El Paso Taco Shells
Thai Kitchen Noodle Bowls (Thai Peanut, Roasted Garlic, Lemongrass & Chili, and Pad Thai)
Tropical Source Dark Chocolate Chips
Uncle Ben's Cinnamon and Raisin Rice Pudding Mix
Staples
Betty Crocker Hash Brown
Campbell's Franco-American Mushroom Gravy
Campbell's Tomato Soup
Del Monte White Corn Cream Style
Healthy Choice Garden Vegetable Soup
Hormel Chili
Hunt's Manwich Sauce
Knorr Red Bell Pepper Pesto Sauce Mix
Kraft "It's Pasta Anytime" Spaghetti with Marinara
Kraft French Fries Seasoning
Kraft Shake ‘N Bake (Original Chicken Coating Mix, Original Pork Coating Mix, and Hot/Spicy Coating Mix)
Kraft Taco Bell Soft Taco Dinner
Kraft Taco Bell Taco Dinner
Lipton Beefy Onion Soup
Lipton Recipe Soup and Dip Mix (Vegetable, Onion Mushroom, and Onion)
Manischewitz Sweet Potato Pancake Mix
McCormick Fajitas Seasoning Mix
McCormick Original, Hot, and Mild Chili Seasoning Mix
McCormick Pasta Salad Vinaigrette Dressing Blend
McCormick Sloppy Joe Seasoning
McCormick Spaghetti Sauce Mix
Near East Spanish Rice Pilaf and Toasted Almond Rice Pilaf
Near East Toasted Pine Nut Couscous and Roasted Garlic & Olive Oil Cousous
Old El Paso Enchilada Sauce
Old El Paso Fat-Free Refried Beans
Old El Paso No-Fuss Fajita Dinner Kit
Old El Paso Taco Seasoning Mix
Progresso Soups (Lentil, Hearty Tomato, and Tomato Basil)
San Giorgio Pastas (Angel Hair, Elbow Macaroni, Rigatoni, Rotelle, and Spaghetti)
Swanson Vegetable Broth
Top Ramen (Oriental)
Uncle Ben's Rice Pilaf, Oriental Fried Rice, Mexican Fiesta, Long Grain Rice, WildRice, Lemon & Herb, and Spanish Rice
Zatarain's Red Beans & Rice, Black Beans & Rice, Black-Eyed Peas & Rice, Jambalaya, Gumbo Mix With Rice, and Dirty Rice Mix
Candy
Airheads taffy
Blow Pops
Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy
Charms lollipops
Chick-o-Sticks
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum Dums
Fireballs
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba Bubblegum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Laffy Taffy
Lemonheads
Mambas
Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
Mike and Ike
Now and Later
PezRing pop lollipops
Smarties (U.S. version only)
Sour Patch Kids
Starburst (jelly beans and hard candy)
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
Zotz
Snacks
Bean dip (make sure it's lard-free)
Cracker Jack
Fritos
Lance's Toasty Crackers
Lay's Stax
Lay's WOW! potato chips
Microwave popcorn (minus the real butter flavor)
Munchos
Peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, and Pistachios
Pretzels
Salsa
Skittles' Mints
Tostitos
Trail mix
Triscuits
Wheat Thins
And alot more!
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The Animals
Beavers
Beavers are extremely gentle, family-oriented animals who mate for life and remain life-long friends with their children. The second-largest rodent in the world, beavers can live 19 years, reach 60 pounds, and grow up to 4 feet long. Baby beavers, or kits, are usually born to hard-working, loving parents who have been together for many years. Female beavers are especially busy as they care for their young while looking after their rambunctious “teenagers.â€
Beavers are master architects—their complicated, well-built lodges can stand for years. These “busy beavers†are constantly concerned with repairs to their homes, taking obvious pride in their work.
At one point in time, these amazing animals were hunted and trapped almost to extinction. Although they have avoided extinction for the moment, beavers are still in constant danger. The body-gripping traps used by trappers to capture and kill beavers cause these sensitive animals immeasurable suffering. In many cases, Conibear (body-gripping) traps fail to catch the animals quickly or on target. If the traps do not kill the beavers immediately, they drown slowly and can suffer for up to 20 minutes. Death by drowning is extremely cruel—the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) condemns it in its 2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia.
Rabbits
Rabbits are extremely social animals, living with their families in underground burrows called warrens. They can hop faster than a cat, human, or white-tailed deer can run. Rabbits love nibbling on alfalfa, timothy hay, apples, carrots, and crisp, green veggies, and they chew vigorously to trim their front teeth, which never stop growing. They communicate through body language, marking their territories like cats by rubbing their chins on twigs, rocks, or other landmarks. People who have adopted domestic rabbits from shelters know that they can be extremely affectionate, snuggling with their human companions and gently nuzzling their necks. Rabbits are sensitive, smart animals with individual personalities, just like dogs and cats. They make lifelong bonds with other rabbits and humans, play with toys, and can even learn to use litterboxes.
Like other animals “farmed†for their fur, rabbits—who are extremely clean by nature—are kept in tiny, filthy cages, surrounded by their own waste. They spend their entire miserable lives standing on the thin cage wires, never having a chance to dig, jump, or play. The methods of slaughter are inhumane—they are killed by having their necks broken or having their skulls beaten in before being strung up by the legs and having their heads cut off.
Foxes
Foxes are intelligent, nocturnal animals who rely on their big bushy tails to spread scent in order to communicate. Instead of being the “chicken thieves†that some farmers claim they are, foxes usually survive by eating fruit, berries, roots, carrion, rats, and slugs. Foxes play an important ecological role, as they “clean†the environment, and their survival often depends upon the amount of available food in their territories. Although they usually live one to two years, foxes have been known to survive nine years if left alone by humans, their sole predator. Female foxes work together to care for their families’ babies, and young foxes ultimately learn how to take care of themselves through play.
Unfortunately, many young foxes are not given this opportunity to learn from their mothers’ and aunts’ gentle nudging. Instead, they are raised on factory farms in tiny, filthy wire cages. Many of these foxes live for years in hideous conditions before farmers kill them and sell their fur to make coats, cuffs, collars, and trim. Others are caught in steel-jaw leghold traps, which crush their legs until trappers arrive to beat them to death hours or days later. In many parts of the country, frantic foxes are pursued by starved hunting dogs for “sport.†Once the dogs catch up to them, the terrified foxes are torn apart, limb from limb.
Minks
Sometimes called “marsh otters,†minks love to swim and are often found near water. In the wild, minks are generally territorial and solitary and often travel long distances, sometimes using the dens of other animals as “hotel pit stops.â€
Minks raised and killed on fur factory farms are kept in small cages and denied access to water to swim in, causing them untold stress by repressing their natural urge to swim. Cramped wire cages prevent minks from indulging their innate desire to roam, and factory-farmed minks are often seen bobbing their heads and pacing in their dirty cages—disturbing, repetitive behavior that is a sign of severe psychological distress.
Chinchillas
Chinchillas are shy, intelligent animals who eat vegetables and fruits and can live up to 15 years in the wild. Social “chatterboxes,†these sensitive, nocturnal animals can spend all night long just talking to one another. Fastidiously clean, they require frequent dust baths to care for their extremely dense fur. These “fluff fests†also provide invaluable moments of comfort and entertainment—moments that are denied to caged chinchillas who are cruelly “farmed†for their fur.
Originally found only in South America, chinchillas are now bred by fur farmers or pet store distributors who then sell them as “pets†to often ill-informed people. On a fur farm in Midland, Michigan, PETA investigators witnessed chinchillas who were suffering from painful seizures after being electrocuted or having their necks broken while they were still fully conscious.
Raccoons
Raccoons are fuzzy, beautiful animals with tell-tale black “masks†around their eyes. They can live seven years or longer in the wild. Raccoons are omnivores and eat frogs, fish, eggs, fruits, nuts, insects, and grain, among other things. Although they are primarily nocturnal, raccoons are often seen frolicking during the day when they haven’t detected a human’s presence. They are intelligent animals (often figuring out the most complicated locks) who, sadly, have had to adapt to the loss of their habitat by human development.
Hunted by starved dogs as foxes are, raccoons are often the victims of cruel humans. And like foxes, raccoons often suffer in steel-jaw leghold traps, where they endure hours of agony before they are killed or chew their own arms or legs off. And like chinchillas, rabbits, and beavers, raccoons are constantly in danger from those who covet their fur.
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Go to --www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com For info.
What's the problem with KFC?
Chickens raised for KFC suffer from the day they are born until the day they are killed, and KFC has refused to make the minimal changes recommended by its own animal welfare advisors to prevent the worst types of cruelty in suppliers' factory farms and slaughterhouses. Imagine what life is like for KFC chickens—if you're a breeder chicken, your sensitive beak is burned off shortly after you're born, and the pain is so great that many around you starve to death because they can't bear to take food into their raw, bloody mouths. If you're one of the 850 million chickens killed by KFC for meat each year, you spend your short life confined to a filthy shed with tens of thousands of other chickens—the shed isn't cleaned, and the smell of ammonia and rotting excrement is so heavy that it burns your lungs with every breath. You've been bred and drugged to grow so obese that you can hardly walk, and you watch as others become crippled under their own weight and die of thirst just a few inches away from the water nozzle. After only a few weeks of life, you are slammed into a crate and trucked over many miles through all weather extremes without food or water to the slaughterhouse. There you are hung upside-down and your throat is cut while you cry out in terror and struggle to escape. If you don't lose consciousness in time, you'll still be alive when you're dragged through the scalding water of the defeathering tanks
They're just chickens—why should we care?
Leading animal behavior scientists from across the globe have found that chickens are inquisitive and interesting animals whose cognitive abilities are more advanced than those of cats, dogs, and even some primates. Chickens understand sophisticated intellectual concepts, learn from watching each other, demonstrate self-control, worry about the future, and even have cultural knowledge that is passed from generation to generation. Every one of the 850 million chickens raised and killed by KFC each year is an individual who feels pain and fear just like the dogs and cats who share our homes—in fact, if KFC treated dogs or cats the way it treats chickens, its executives could go to prison on felony cruelty-to-animals charges. Read what scientists have to say about chicken intelligence.
Chickens are probably the most abused animals on the face of the planet—they are treated in ways that would warrant felony cruelty-to-animals charges were they dogs, cats, or even cows or pigs. Because federal laws exempt chickens from the Animal Welfare and Humane Slaughter acts, sadistic and routine cruelty go unpunished, and it is up to companies like KFC to ensure that the chickens who end up in their buckets and boxes are not grossly abused. KFC has ignored this responsibility almost entirely, and its suppliers continue to abuse chickens—who are remarkable animals with distinct personalities, social orders, systems of communication, and intelligence as advanced as that of many other animals—in ways that would be illegal if dogs and cats were the victims.
