I read a couple of stories recently that highlighted an irony regarding the treatment of animals raised for food.
A group of activists came to the Utah Capitol with letters for the governor and dead piglets from a local factory farm in hand. They described the raising of pigs in gestation and battery cages that restrict the animals from any freedom of movement. They identified the barbaric methods of killing these piglets simply because they may have been too small to be of commercial value.
In contrast to this was a letter from the Humane Society of the United States celebrating a decision by the Vietnam government to put a halt to the torment and beatings of animals raised for food.