Animal Aid to visit Lincoln
Date: 2010-07-14
Powerful Scenes of Animal Suffering
Coming to Lincoln
Animal Aid asks:
Is Factory Farming Making You
Sick?
On Monday, 19th July from 1.00pm onwards – High Bridge Lincoln (Opposite Stokes Coffee Shop) national campaign group, Animal Aid, will be visiting Lincoln City Centre with a specially created artistic display of photographs that is bound to shock all animal lovers. The large photo boards depict grim scenes of dead, dying and sick animals – and all were taken in the UK. Each image reminds the viewer that by keeping animals in filth and squalor, we not only harm them, we could be harming ourselves.
In 2008, as part of
an ongoing investigation, Animal Aid secretly filmed in ten English
pig farms, located in five counties, including Lincolnshire. We
uncovered squalor, filth, death and disease in different farms
across the country. Inquisitive and intelligent animals were found
living in barren, overcrowded pens with often nothing but a metal
chain to ‘stimulate’ them. Animal Aid is
inviting the people of Lincoln to visit the photographic display on
Monday to find out more about the health risks they may face by
supporting such animal agriculture.
Says Animal Aid Campaigns Officer, Kelly Slade:
‘We must reconsider our treatment of our fellow sentient beings – not only because of the effect that abuse and exploitation has on their welfare, but also because of the negative health consequences for people, too. No compassionate person would allow dogs to be kept in similar conditions without speaking out and so we are asking Lincoln residents to extend that same compassion to pigs, cows and chickens. There is something we can all do to reduce the harm done to these vulnerable creatures and to help protect our own health and that of our families: we can adopt a meat-free diet.’
Story by: Kelly Slade
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