I have recently been reading about the unbelievable cruelty endemic in big business livestock farming, which, sadly, is most of the livestock farming in the US. Itturn s your stomach, made me almost physically ill just reading about it.  These factory farms are cruel to the animals, and exploit undocumented workers. They should all be put out of business or forced to comply with the laws .

Now that I do know, my consciousness raised, there are only two possible courses in order to live with my conscience - one is to increase what I spend for meat and poultry, and buy only from Certified Humane sources. I have been doing that with chicken/eggs/dairy  for a while, since we seldom eat red meat at all (this change made years ago for health reasons).  The other is to become a total vegetarian.  I am almost a total vegetarian now, having come to prefer vegetables, fruits and grains to most meat, but my husband is not.    So, a little more in the food budget.