In order to help people better understand the harsh reality for pigs, cows, chickens and ducks living in factory farm conditions, increasingly animal advocates are turning to the virtual world.
Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal rescue and advocacy organization, recently launched their Virtual Experience depicting two very different realities for farm animals.
The Virtual Experience highlights and contrasts the difference between life on a factory farm and life at the sanctuary.
In the "Explore" section of the website, visitors meet some of the rescued animals who live at the sanctuary. Their stories are conveyed in text, photographs and videos that pop up on the screen.
Many of the animals living at Farm Sanctuary's shelters were rescued from factory farms and would have ended their lives in slaughterhouses, as depicted in the "Investigate" section of the Virtual Experience.
Visitors can also explore the industrial meat, milk and egg production - from the moment the animals are born to when they are confined so tightly in cages, crates and factory-like buildings that they can barely move, to the slaughter line where their lives end.
The graphic scenes portrayed in this segment of the Virtual Experience are based on Farm Sanctuary's more than two decades worth of experience documenting the suffering of animals in factory farms and slaughterhouses, and include photos and videos.
Visit: The Farm Sanctuary Virtual Experience
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