Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
Exodus 23:12
"Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
Compare God's instructions to Israel as to how to treat animals and keeping animals that normally lie down to sleep standing in cages their entire lives; leaving the lights on twenty-four hours a day with the sounds of machinery and animals in pain ringing in their ears.
J Matthew Sleeth reports to obtain billions of hamburger patties for a few cents each, America's fast-food restaurants buy much of their mean from Central and South American farmers. These farmers clear-cut forests often to start a cattle-raising process that can be sustained for a few years.
The loss of these forests means clouds they once made no longer blow across the Atlantic to Africa. As a result the Sahara grows by thousands of acres a year. Bottom line for Africans is starvation while the bottom line for Americans is cheap hamburgers.
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