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#26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket

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Not Your Old McDonald's Farm: Ripping Out Pig Testicals and Cutting Out a Cow's Eye

Working on seemingly idyllic family-owned farms involved painful procedures like cutting off horns from baby goats, ripping testicles out of animals without pain medication, and removing cow's eyes without anesthesia due to financial constraints, viewing the animals as products rather than sentient beings. The speaker's realization of such practices raised concerns about the treatment of animals in factory farms and prompted a shift in their perspective on animal welfare and ethical farming practices.

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