Letters from the Issue of May 3, 2007

Thanks to Lee Klein for his restaurant review which helped to expose the lies that are fed to consumers by the food industry.

Too many people think that "organic" farms are humane. Unfortunately this is not the case. As the organic market has grown, the food industry has found new and crueller ways to incarcerate animals.

There are no food animals whose lives are not miserable. Even those farms that actually allow their animals to graze, bathe, and eat natural foods (less than 2%), perform acts of unspeakable cruelty.

Pigs in "natural" farms still have their ears mutilated, are neutered and have their tails chopped off without any pain-killer or anaesthectic. They are still piled into trucks so crowded that drivers report being able to hear their limbs and backs break (pigs have been known to literally split open in transit).

And for the 4 out of 10 that are not stunned properly at the slaughterhouse, the excruciating experience of being hung upside down, having their throats cut, and then being drowned in scalding water.

Pigs are the 4th most intelligent animal on the planet. We torture and eat them, regardless of whether they are organic, natural or caged.

Brad King
Miami Beach