Factory farming needs to be more closely monitored because it is a leading cause of animal abuse. The definition of animal abuse is:“The intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law” (UIA). On factory farms, animals are confined to battery cages, gestation crates, farrowing crates, feedlots and veal crates for the majority of their lives. These forms of containment cause severe pain and disease to the animals. If they lay eggs, chickens will spend the majority of their lives in battery cages or cramped in large pens with hundreds of other chickens. On average, these battery cages are 67 square inches for each bird which is very close to the average size of
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A common goal of factory farmers is to raise livestock for greater profits, as previously mentioned one way to achieve this is through unnatural feeds and antibiotics. The producers who decide to use unnatural feeds to promote growth in animals increase the saturated fat content of their meat. (Baur) Saturated fat can raise cholesterol and increase risk of heart disease. In the United States alone around 610,000 people die every year of this disease. (Heart ...) This amounts to almost a fourth of the deaths in America every year. Again, if the feeds used on factory farms were regulated by the government then the risk of dying from heart disease could be reduced for thousands of people every year. This may not sound like much, but by reducing the risk there would be a very high chance of these people being saved later in …show more content…
Poor sanitation and waste management on factory farms lead to the contamination of the food supply by bacteria like E.coli and salmonella, infecting whole communities at a time. Also, Swine Flu and Avian Flu have been linked to the overcrowding of pigs on factory farms and the storage of their waste in giant manure lagoons. (SRAP) Overall, the risk of death from these human health problems could be reduced if feeds and antibiotics were regulated and of sanitation was more closely
A common goal of factory farmers is to raise livestock for greater profits, as previously mentioned one way to achieve this is through unnatural feeds and antibiotics. The producers who decide to use unnatural feeds to promote growth in animals increase the saturated fat content of their meat. (Baur) Saturated fat can raise cholesterol and increase risk of heart disease. In the United States alone around 610,000 people die every year of this disease. (Heart ...) This amounts to almost a fourth of the deaths in America every year. Again, if the feeds used on factory farms were regulated by the government then the risk of dying from heart disease could be reduced for thousands of people every year. This may not sound like much, but by reducing the risk there would be a very high chance of these people being saved later in …show more content…
Poor sanitation and waste management on factory farms lead to the contamination of the food supply by bacteria like E.coli and salmonella, infecting whole communities at a time. Also, Swine Flu and Avian Flu have been linked to the overcrowding of pigs on factory farms and the storage of their waste in giant manure lagoons. (SRAP) Overall, the risk of death from these human health problems could be reduced if feeds and antibiotics were regulated and of sanitation was more closely