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Slaughtering animals has been a problem around for many years. The beginning of changing this was the animal rights movement. This movement was recognized by Alexander Yersin in 1863. The Animal Rights Movement is an organization which seeks to help end the rigid moral towards animals. This means that a group of people work together to stop the suffering and pain these animals go threw just for us to have on the dinner table. Manatma Gandhi once said “to mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from cruelty of man”. When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her lives and fights the knife. (PETA). The situation hasn't bettered but worsened. As many think it prejudice to see one animals as a companion and the other as dinner. Factory Farms today cram together thousands of animals to the point where they can't take a single step. When this happens the animals began to fight for their space so facto...

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