Our sustenance now comes from misery.

How much suffering will you tolerate for your food?

In the United States, about 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock — at least that is what the industry claims.

According to a study published in Consumer Reports, 83 percent of all chicken meat (including organic and antibiotic-free brands) is infected with either campylobacter or salmonella at the time of purchase.

A University of Chicago study recently found that our food choices contribute at least as much as our transportation choices to global warming.

Factory farming’s success depends on consumers’ nostalgic images of food production — the fisherman reeling in fish, the pig farmer knowing each of his pigs as individuals, the turkey rancher watching beaks break through eggs — because these images correspond to something we respect and trust.

industry to turn wastewater into tens of millions of dollars’ worth of additional weight in poultry products.

Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.

farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population — roughly 87,000 pounds of shit per second.