P.E.T.P.

Billions die a slow, agonizing death yearly. No one pays attention to their pain. Their pleas fall on deaf ears. Their cries go unnoticed. This is an injustice that must be stopped. I urge all of you to help me form, and to join P.E.T.P. - People for the Ethical Treatment of Produce.

Lettuce can't speak to someone, and scream in pain at the torture it must bear. Only we can take up its cause, and fight for its ethical treatment, so it doesn't have to suffer in silence anymore. Let us look at the sad existance lettuce and other produce must face.

While living on a farm, they are grown in an unnatural habitat, from genetically altered seed that has caused them to grow mutated from their natural forms. They are sprayed with chemicals, to make them grow faster, fatter, and to keep preditors away. Although this may seem helpful, it leaves them in a drug induced haze for most of their lives.

Eventually, it reaches harvest time. They are mercilously chopped from their vines or roots. Some varieties of produce are ripped from the very ground they are in. This brings them much pain. They bleed. They go into shock. They are quickly thrown into cold temperatures, to keep them alive.

While they are kept alive, carcass upon carcass barely clinging to life, they are shipped. The half-lifeless and naked bodies are cleansed, and the unwanted ones are rejected. The survivors are then shipped off to stores.

The few that make it that far, are kept on that life support by a slight mist of water and cold temperatures. There they sit in the produce section of the grocery store until someone gets them, and shoves them in a plastic bag, where they are cut off from air!!! They nearly suffacate. That person is you. You bring them home, and put them in a drawer or shelf in the dark in your fridge, awaiting their final execution.

Depending on your preferance, you kill them differently. Some are murdered by heat of cooking. Others face a much more painful, and gruesome death. They are eaten alive. People take those living plants, put them in their mouths, chew and eat them. They must endure horrid pain being ground up into a paste while still alive. Such a sad life.

We must act, and do something about this evil, unethical treatment. Plants are alive, and living creatures. God has put them here on this planet. They share the earth with us, it is theirs too. Say no to eating produce. Join P.E.T.P. The carrots will thank you.