Isn’t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife—birds, kangaroos, deer, all kind of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes—by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals lead to heart disease, kidney disease and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for those diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for “Peace on Earth.”

Rev. C. David Coats in his preface to Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm