The idea of animal rights has been an important topic around the world for a while, but it wasn’t until 1822 when the Ill-Treatment of Cattle Act got passed that the United States recognized it. The passed Cattle Act protected dogs from harsh care. Since that day, the idea of animal rights has evolved and has became a more complex system: there's now different classifications that fall under animal rights. Farm animal rights is one of those sub-categories. 98% of all animals being abused and slaughtered are animals bred for food. More people are becoming aware of the injustice done to farm animals and are trying to aid the stoppage of it, but there can still be quite some time until changes are made since the food industry has created an efficient
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Another way the industry fattens up the animals is by adding hormones to their food. Chickens that get fed hormones grow two times faster in specific places such as the breasts, wings, and thighs. So, their upper body is more developed than a chicken receiving no hormones. Other parts of the chicken’s body, such as the feet, can’t keep up with the growth and are no longer able to carry the chicken’s own weight. This results in the chicken struggling to move in it’s own vicinity. Fortunately, cows have more room to move around in, but they get fed corn; something that they are not evolutionarily supposed to eat. Cows that are being fed corn tend to get e coli. This has been the reason for the e coli outbreaks in meat over the years. E Coli outbreaks have been the main reason on how the public gets glimpses into factory farming, but other than that, factory farming is hidden from the public. Nevertheless, people have been exposed to factory farming; they either know about factory farming through working on the farms, or by being exposed to the e coli outbreaks. Those people who have uncovered the truth are trying to “bring national attention to the issue of animal …show more content…
FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) was created at the Vegetarian Information Service by “Hershaft[.]… As a boy, Alex Hershaft hid in and outside the Warsaw Ghetto to avoid the Germans' slaughter of Jews during World War II. Now, he is urging people to refrain from consuming meat or dairy products to reduce the butchering of animals.” (Zlatos). Hershaft is the one who compared the German and the Jew relationship with the farmer and the animal. The technicalities for comparing the two were not in his favor, but he tried to show the emotional side of things- that both were being abused, felt scared, and slowly dying. His story appealed to many and thus created a following that turned into a movement. This movement “has one of the lowest budgets among national animal organizations and staffers volunteer all or part of their time, so each contribution makes a large impact” (“FARM - About”). FARM has officially been recognized worldwide as a formal organization. It’s goal is to embrace vegetarianism and promote those
Another way the industry fattens up the animals is by adding hormones to their food. Chickens that get fed hormones grow two times faster in specific places such as the breasts, wings, and thighs. So, their upper body is more developed than a chicken receiving no hormones. Other parts of the chicken’s body, such as the feet, can’t keep up with the growth and are no longer able to carry the chicken’s own weight. This results in the chicken struggling to move in it’s own vicinity. Fortunately, cows have more room to move around in, but they get fed corn; something that they are not evolutionarily supposed to eat. Cows that are being fed corn tend to get e coli. This has been the reason for the e coli outbreaks in meat over the years. E Coli outbreaks have been the main reason on how the public gets glimpses into factory farming, but other than that, factory farming is hidden from the public. Nevertheless, people have been exposed to factory farming; they either know about factory farming through working on the farms, or by being exposed to the e coli outbreaks. Those people who have uncovered the truth are trying to “bring national attention to the issue of animal …show more content…
FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) was created at the Vegetarian Information Service by “Hershaft[.]… As a boy, Alex Hershaft hid in and outside the Warsaw Ghetto to avoid the Germans' slaughter of Jews during World War II. Now, he is urging people to refrain from consuming meat or dairy products to reduce the butchering of animals.” (Zlatos). Hershaft is the one who compared the German and the Jew relationship with the farmer and the animal. The technicalities for comparing the two were not in his favor, but he tried to show the emotional side of things- that both were being abused, felt scared, and slowly dying. His story appealed to many and thus created a following that turned into a movement. This movement “has one of the lowest budgets among national animal organizations and staffers volunteer all or part of their time, so each contribution makes a large impact” (“FARM - About”). FARM has officially been recognized worldwide as a formal organization. It’s goal is to embrace vegetarianism and promote those