General:

• Trillions of animals are killed every year for our pleasure. Whether you buy free-range, grass-fed or "certified humane", they are forcibly impregnated, their babies are stolen, their lives are cut extremely short and the slaughter process is horrific.

• Millions of WILD animals are killed every year for being destructive to the agriculture industry. The US federal wildlife-killing program targets wolves, coyotes, cougars, birds and various other wildlife. They killed 2.3 million animals 2017.

• Dehorning, debeaking, castration and tail docking are mutilations performed daily on factory farms without anesthesia and often resulting in infections.

Fish:​

• Fish FEEL PAIN. Anatomically, physiologically and biologically, the pain system in fish is the same as in birds and mammals.

• Farmed fish suffer from severe depression and sometimes “drop out,” or float around lifelessly. They live in filthy, crowded water where infections and parasites spread, often eating their faces down to the bone. They're fed antibiotics and other drugs to keep them alive and growing faster than usual. 

• Fish suffer excruciatingly painful decompression when dragged from the ocean depths, often resulting in their swim bladders rupturing, their eyes popping out, and their stomachs being pushed up through their mouths. Then, when tossed onto the ship they slowly suffocate or are crushed to death. Others are still alive when they're slit open. 

• Fish are smart and sensitive. They have individual personalities, talk to one another, form bonds and grieve when their companions die. They are capable of remembering past social interactions they've had with other fish.

• Fish use tools: some use leaves to to carry their eggs to safe places, others use a rock as an anvil to crack open clam shells. 

Eggs & Chickens:​

• The egg industry IS the chicken slaughter industry, only worse. The hens are kept alive up to 18 months, rather than just six weeks for the broiler industry, to give humans eggs. Therefore, they suffer horribly for much longer, then are sent to slaughter in the very same manner as the broiler chickens.

• Male chicks born in egg-hatching factories are useless to the egg industry, therefore killed immediately - shredded alive, gassed or suffocated. 

• Chickens raised for eggs naturally lay 12-18 eggs per year, but have been bred to lay them daily. They experience stress and anxiety when their eggs disappear, causing them to lay another. This strain greatly reduces their natural lifespan. 

• "Backyard chicken" eggs are not humane. The hens purchased from hatcheries still support the brutal killing of newborn male chicks. And hens suffer undue stress and shortened lifespans resulting from taking their eggs. 

• Certified Humane Cage-Free chickens are not raised humanely. They're raised in a large, dark building with thousands of others, with just over one square foot of space required per chicken. They can barely move and cannot get outside. Beaks are typically seared off with a hot blade. The beak is filled with nerves and debeaking causes serious and sometimes chronic pain. USDA Organic chickens have no space requirements, and treatment is even worse. 

• Chickens raised for meat are bred to grow so quickly they're often mobilized under their own weight.

• Here's a great resource: 17 Chicken Facts The Industry Doesn't Want You To Know