With the ever increasing need for enough resources to sustain our population, factory farms have become a common source to feed the masses. Designed to maximise the output from animals, they run almost nonstop year round. With over 9 billion chickens, 113 million pigs, 33 million cows,and 250 millions turkeys killed yearly, their efficiency is unquestionable. What often goes out of question, however is what it is the animals go through even before they are slaughtered. The very thought that the food they are eating has come from an animal which most likely did not live a happy and peaceful life is enough for one to put it out of their minds.
(claim 1)-The ethical treatment of animals is almost nonexistent and animals in factory farms live …show more content…
about 80 percent of all US cattle are injected with hormones to make them grow faster, and approximately 17 percent of all cows in the US were given the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH to increase milk production. According to the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health (SCVPH), the use of six natural and artificial growth hormones (three natural,, Progesterone and Testosterone and three that are synthetic which are Zeranol, Trenbolone, and Melengestrol)in beef production posed a possible risk to human health. The committee found that “no acceptable daily intake could be established for any of these hormones.” there are concerns whether that increased hormones in our systems can interrupt hormone balance. Children and pregnant women are thought to be the most vulnerable and rgbh has been linked to increased triplet and twin births. rBGH was developed under the name posilac As more and more exposure of where our food comes from was present, a number of restrictive bills have appeared in an attempt to silence those willing to expose the practices of factory farms. Ag gag bills are In addition to raising animal welfare concerns, ag gag bills block exposure of food safety threats, unsafe working conditions and environmental problems at industrial agricultural operations. Ag gag laws would have prevented The HSUS from uncovering not only the forced cannibalism at Kentucky’s Iron Maiden Hog Farm, but the criminal abuse of pigs at Wyoming Premium Farms and the Hallmark slaughter plant in California sending sick downer cattle into the nation’s school food
(claim 1)-The ethical treatment of animals is almost nonexistent and animals in factory farms live …show more content…
about 80 percent of all US cattle are injected with hormones to make them grow faster, and approximately 17 percent of all cows in the US were given the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH to increase milk production. According to the European Union’s Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health (SCVPH), the use of six natural and artificial growth hormones (three natural,, Progesterone and Testosterone and three that are synthetic which are Zeranol, Trenbolone, and Melengestrol)in beef production posed a possible risk to human health. The committee found that “no acceptable daily intake could be established for any of these hormones.” there are concerns whether that increased hormones in our systems can interrupt hormone balance. Children and pregnant women are thought to be the most vulnerable and rgbh has been linked to increased triplet and twin births. rBGH was developed under the name posilac As more and more exposure of where our food comes from was present, a number of restrictive bills have appeared in an attempt to silence those willing to expose the practices of factory farms. Ag gag bills are In addition to raising animal welfare concerns, ag gag bills block exposure of food safety threats, unsafe working conditions and environmental problems at industrial agricultural operations. Ag gag laws would have prevented The HSUS from uncovering not only the forced cannibalism at Kentucky’s Iron Maiden Hog Farm, but the criminal abuse of pigs at Wyoming Premium Farms and the Hallmark slaughter plant in California sending sick downer cattle into the nation’s school food