Vegans/vegitarians What industry is tge crulest?!

I think poultry would be, those poor chickens having their beaks melted shut.

I'm not sure I know what TGE is? According to my research it's a virus found living among pig farms...if this is the case why is your question aimed towards other animals? Can you reiterate please?

But anyways, crulest industries: poultry and eggs.

Egg industry: Many egg farm still use battery cages to house hens (3-8 hens stuffed in a tiny cage their whole lives). Baby male chicks are useless so in other countries they are stomped on, starved to death, or suffocated...and in America they are thrown into grinders. When hens stop laying a top producing amount of eggs (because they are very unhealthy and exhausted) they are stomped on to death, electocuted, and drowned. To prevent fighting in these caged animals, their beaks (which have nerves in them) are seared off with no pain medication. If they are not in cages, most of them are packed wing to wing by the thousands in a house that barely allows them to go outside ever.

Poultry industry: they are fed hormones to the point where their bodies grow to fast and too big to where their legs cannot hold them and they can not mobilize. They are stuffed thousands to a shed w/o any light and very poor ventilation. During the transportation to the slaughterhouse, their bones and wings may be broken to fit into the trucks..

That would depend on what you mean by "cruel" since the word's interpretation is subjective and not universal. For example, mildly smacking a child on the behind is cruel for some people while perfectly acceptable for others.
In the wild, only 1 out of 8 piglets of wild pigs will live to be an adult. Only one in 5 fertilized eggs/chicks of wild chickens will live to be an adult. Only one in 2 million salmon (and other fish) eggs will live to be an adult. There are no more wild cattle. The deaths include being ripped apart by predators, prolonged and agonizing death due to starvation/dehydration, disease and other causes. Very few if any will die of old age. In fact, of the estimated 1.5-2 million wildebeests (or gnus) roaming the African plains. not a single one will die of old age. However, in a farm, up to 95% of all animals will live to be an adult. In that context, I would say Mother Nature is the cruelest. And I guarantee you about100% of the other posters have not even been to a farm much less know a single thing about farming other than what they have read off a website from the comfort of their home in a habitat destroying, resources using city.

Considering that there are now vast improvements in animal husbandry (including enacting new laws and better enforcement of these laws) with the increasing popularity and practice of "humane" farming ( for meat, eggs and dairy), it is unfair and misleading to generalize/categorize the whole industry according to the definitions of those who are not even involved in farming/food production itself.much less know anything about it other than what they read off a propaganda vegan/vegetarian site. That's just like stereotyping all vegetarians/vegans as preaching, holier than thou malnourished anorexics only following a certain lifestyle in order to be "cool".

Personally, I don't find any of those industries particularly "cruel" since they are designed to provide and benefit millions, if not billions of hungry humans. As I said, cruelty is a subjective word.

If you want cruel, try the sports shoes industry. Millions of third world workers including many children are subjected to sub standard working conditions for little pay in order to produce a product that is totally unnecessary but generally only appeals to the fashion standards of rich countries.

the rat industry

most poultry n least freerange eggs

Personally, I think it's veggie farming. Those poor little critters are just out in the fields, minding their own business, building their nests, raising their young and BAM! A huge tractor comes along and smashes their nest! Or they get caught up in the jaws of a combine! Awful cruelty. Awful, I say.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/9…

Lamb, then dairy then pork. I havent included eggs because i think great strides have been made in free range eggs, at least here in australiasia it has