Animal Farm Animal Abuse

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run as fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is the lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm) Humans consume many different animals, but don’t know the animals that they have eaten may have come from a bad source. Just so the farmers can get more money, the farm animals are forced to get treated poorly and might contain harmful bacteria when consumed by humans. Farm animal abuse is the most important issue all over the world, which affects both, the farm …show more content…
They could be genetically modified or more. Michael Pollan, the writer of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, tells Michael’s travels to find out about the secrets of food. On the way, he sees horrible treatment of many animals and the mass production of corn. “At first I thought the cattle were standing or lying in grayish mud. Then it dawned on me - that wasn’t mud at all. It was manure. An endless series of cattle pens stretched to the horizon, each one home to a hundred or so animals. The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill.” (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secret behind What You Eat) It is very scary to find out that the food you eat stands in its own manure everyday without being cleaned. It’s also sad how many of the animals that need to face the hardships and in the end get kill for food. The animals should be fed what there body's natural to and live in a safe living space. Michael Pollan wrote books to promote foods like grass-fed cows, etc. The cow are eaten by human which can harm the humans and themselves. For that reason, the animals should be treated nicely. Abuse of farm animals happen all over the world and it needs to