The meat industry is able to provide cheap and affordable meat to the consumers, that are unaware of the animal cruelty and environmental impact of the meat being purchased. Animals of the factory farms are by far the most disadvantaged. The animals of the factory farms are often treated harshly and have their bodies mutilated to prevent the animals from harming other animals, or to create room to fit the animal in their designated cage. In addition to the animals, the surrounding environment and people are also…
On Tuesday, October 9th, 2017 our class visited Beartrack Farms in Turkey, NC. The organization is run on two farms in different locations, which are a few miles apart from one another. Beartrack Farms is owned by Miss Sharon, and has a variety of different animals spread across the two locations. The species of animals on the farms include: duck, chicken, goat, sheep, alpaca, pig, turkey, and a few others.…
Over the years farming practices have changed dramatically, and as a result many health complications have emerged. Because of the extreme transformations of agricultural practices, the health of animals, the environment, and more importantly humans have been put at risk. Today’s farming practices include feeding the livestock food they were not intended to eat corn and the remains of other animals. In contrast, farming in the 1700’s typically included animals eating grass (in which they were built to eat), living on an open range farm, and treating the animals with respect. These changes came about due to an increase in demands for meat as well as the desire for more money.…
The documentary, Food, Inc. was very informative and eye-opening in many ways. American food consumers are highly unaware of what they are really eating, whether they think they are or not. It takes a lot of educational background of the food industry and it’s processes to get an understanding of how their food is actually produced. Although, trying to understand these processes is difficult because of the restricted amount of information by the food industries. Even when attempting to investigate for a documentary, there are various avenues to overcome, and still many not allowable ones to get past or reveal any facts.…
Chickens and turkeys are the most abused animals in factory farms. Male chickens and turkeys are slaughtered in factory farms because they can’t produce eggs and are seen as useless. The factory is trying to produce as many eggs as fast as possible so that they can increase their profits. Female chickens and turkeys are raised in factory farms to “produce more than 250 eggs annually, compared to 100 eggs annually a century ago.” According to www.farmsanctuary.org.…
We, in the United States are meant eaters. Today’s news is often filled with the effects and causes of global warming, with the main focus being related to carbon gas (CO2) emissions, reducing oil-based and coal energy usage. By comparison, what is not well known or often reported, is the tremendous impact of raising farm animals, mostly cows and chicken, for food production, the strain on resources, carbon emission, and the corresponding toxic run-off, to name a few. By further investigating the results of these massive farm production undertakings, and how damaging their impact is to the planet as reported by John Vidal in an article published in “The Guardian”, the current way these animals are raised is more recently of interest by politicians, scientists, economists, and the UN alike. Our relationship with animals is severe and must be changed in order to help solve the human and ecological concerns, and solve the problem of the already 1 billion people who do not have enough to eat and the 3 billion more people to feed within 50 years (Vidal).…
"Veal calves, taken away from their mothers shortly after birth, live their entire lives in near darkness, chained by their necks and unable to move in any direction. They commonly suffer from anemia, diarrhea, pneumonia and lameness" (Motavalli N.p.). Veal, chickens, pigs, cows, and all other livestock animals are exposed to horrifying conditions when facing the end of their lives. All of these unethical experiences are due to factory farming. Factory farms are massive, dark, mechanized versions of the old-fashioned, outdoor, American farm that most think of.…
Factory farming is heavily prevalent in todays society. Most nearly all of the meat and by products of animals come from animals raised in factories, robbing them of living and fulfilling a full life. I one hundred percent agree with Blake Hurst that “only ‘industrial farming’ of meat can possibly see the demand for an increasing population and increased demand for food as a result of growing incomes”. The world today is growing at a way too rapid pace for natural production of animals. The days of animals happily roaming around Grandma’s farm are over.…
In the same article, it says, “Some common practices among factory farms include confining hens in battery cages where their movements are severely restricted and confining calves in crates that limit movement for the production of veal” (Bohanec). In another article, it says, “The females are debeaked, toe-clipped, and housed in a "grow-out" facility until they reach egg-producing age. They are then moved to the laying facility and stacked in wire "battery" cages, three to ten birds to a cage, with each cage measuring less than two feet square” (Cassuto 20). Chickens are the most abused animal on factory farms. Pigs are also abused badly though.…
These animals are not capable of feeling the natural freedom that they deserve because of these industries. The farming factory industry strives to maximize the output while minimizing the expenses of these animals. Farms endure constant fear on many animals such as giving small spaces for hens. The hens are not capable of turning or lying down due to the discomfort. Many farms also use antibiotics to make the animals grow faster and to keep them alive in those disgusting conditions.…
Factory farming is a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions. Factory farms control the U.S. food production. According to Safe.org.nz “Factory farming began around the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies with the popularity of fast food” (paragraph 2). It created the ability for companies to buy larger quantities of meat for a lesser amount of money. Factory farming also affects the earth’s environment and contributes to global warming by creating fossil fuels, carbon emissions, water and air pollution.…
If more people were informed about the lives of these animals it may make them reconsider where they shop for food, thus narrowing down their options of what to eat. Pollan explains that while it may not seem like they can feel emotions the way humans do, there is no excuse for everything they have to endure in factory farms and feedlots. “Believe me, the people who run those places don’t waste any time thinking about animal suffering. If they did, they’d have to go out of business” (255), the egg farms are especially bad. The laying hen will be forced into a tiny, wire cage with six other hens.…
Their rights are not enforced significantly in action even though people talk about it, for their most economical valuable way of contribution to human is to be eaten, sadly. Although fast food industry today seems not right for moral impression, animal rights for chicken are hard to be realized without other significance. The occurrence of change requires conditions allowing it to happen. Like WWI for women rights and industrialization for northern slaves in the antebellum period, the society changes their way of contribution that gives them chance to see and rewrite their social image and…
Norcross states, “Most of the chicken, veal, beef, and pork consumed in the US comes from intensive confinement facilities, in which the animals live cramped, stress-filled lives and endure anaesthetized mutilations,” (Textbook, 408). This statement allows the readers to see that what Fred is doing, unfortunately, is not any different compared to what millions of factory workers are doing to factory raised animals, making both equally as wrong. Chickens are one of the most abused animals worldwide. If abusing one type animal is immoral, abusing any type of animal is also…
Taking into account the high cost of the cage-free system, it is not hard to infer that cage-free eggs will seek higher prices in the market. Chad Gregory points out that people may see a 10-cent increase for every dozen of eggs.7 For those who care about the high price of the cage-free eggs, I argue that it will not be a big problem, given the consumers’ awareness and willingness. In 2009, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) carried out a survey on humane food.12 The result showed that people are becoming more and more aware of the ways how farm animals are raised. WSPA concludes that people are going after humane alternatives and are willing to pay higher prices.…