I am against the treatment of animals in large farms in the US. It is totally inhumane to starve animals, provide them with the least space, give them electric shocks, and kill them by machinery. Who knows how much the electric shock and mashine slaughter must hurt the poor animals. The country where I originate from does not treat livestock in this manner. They are often raised on family farms where they are loved and treated as their own pets during their life. When its time for them to go, our religion commands us to hand-slaughter them in the most humane way possible. There is a certain technique we use in slaughtering livestock, and any animal slaughtered in another way is unlawful for us to eat. For example, the meat sold at Safeway, etc. in the US is unlawful for me or anyone of my religion to eat. In the US, many people of our type have their own farms where they slaughter animals in the proper way and send the meat to certain stores. Those stores are where we buy our meat. The meat at Safeway and other stores is forbidden for us to eat because our religion forbade us from slaughtering animals in that manner. I do not like electric shocks either. I do not consider them humane. Thanks for the "nutrition lesson" Puppylover. I know that we are not created to eat too much meat, but we are created to eat some meat, which my family does. My family eats red meat once or twice a week and chicken 2 times a week. The rest of the days we eat veggies.