The article “In the belly of the beast” by Paul Solotaroff addresses the issue of factory farming. Factory farming had to start somewhere, but how and why is the question? Factory farming is an industrial process in which animals are tortured and killed to produce products. The animals are not looked at as human; they are looked as eggs, milk, and meat. However, factory farming is a business, with a goal to maximize production and consequently profit. The text states in big white letters with a blood background, “ IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN IN A HEN PLANT, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT HELL IS. CHICKEN SHIT IS PILED SIX FEET HIGH, AND YOUR LUNGS BURN LIKE YOU TOOK A TORCH TO ‘EM”. This line displays a hen house to hell. It sets a mood of your gut exploding.
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Sarah states “We’ve had a major impact in the five or six years we’ve been doing these operations” However a wave of new laws drafted by lawmakers and lobbyists and referred to as “Ag-Gag” bills are making it illegal to have a farm job undercover, apply for a farm job without disclosing background about animals rights. To put this into real life numbers the article explains the dirty truth about cheap meat. For example; 500 million tons is the amount of factory-farm animals waste generated in the U.S each year. The minimum number of diseases that can be transferred from farm – animal’s waste to human is 40 and the miles of the river across 22 U.S states reporting polluted waterways 35,000. The numbers are there to prove the toll factory farming is doing to this country. Two springs ago, Sarah was hired at a breeding barn called Wyoming Premium Farms, it was long as four football fields and she was one of the 12 to 15 workers tending to 1,000 pigs each. She explains, “the workers were so stressed that they beat the sows during the weaning process and moved ‘em back to the breeding barns. She continues, some moms would resist and these guys would just pounce, three or four kicking and punching. Nine workers were charged with animal cruelty in connection with the case Sarah …show more content…
Egg laying hens are trapped in cages given less than a square foot of space. They see no light and they are living in their own feces from the moment they are born. Poop coats their feathers from the battery cages above, it becomes a second skin. They are given chemically enhance food to mass produce eggs. Broiler chickens are given growth hormones, antibiotics, and genetically engineered feed. The same is for milk cows and beef producing cows. Cows are outdoor animals, but in factory farms, they will never touch grass or see the sun until the day they are being slaughtered. A cocktail of drugs is given which will expand the cows and make milk and beef production boom. The author states “Nearly 22,000 pounds of milk a year (That’s more than double what your forebears produced just 40 years ago”) The number of pounds of milk produced in 1972 by individual dairy cows was 9,863 in 2012 it was 21,697, that’s a 120% increase because of factory farming. Pigs just like chickens are confined to a tight 7 by 2 feet box. Their legs will eventually wear out with the mass production of weight and will eventually be unable to
Sarah states “We’ve had a major impact in the five or six years we’ve been doing these operations” However a wave of new laws drafted by lawmakers and lobbyists and referred to as “Ag-Gag” bills are making it illegal to have a farm job undercover, apply for a farm job without disclosing background about animals rights. To put this into real life numbers the article explains the dirty truth about cheap meat. For example; 500 million tons is the amount of factory-farm animals waste generated in the U.S each year. The minimum number of diseases that can be transferred from farm – animal’s waste to human is 40 and the miles of the river across 22 U.S states reporting polluted waterways 35,000. The numbers are there to prove the toll factory farming is doing to this country. Two springs ago, Sarah was hired at a breeding barn called Wyoming Premium Farms, it was long as four football fields and she was one of the 12 to 15 workers tending to 1,000 pigs each. She explains, “the workers were so stressed that they beat the sows during the weaning process and moved ‘em back to the breeding barns. She continues, some moms would resist and these guys would just pounce, three or four kicking and punching. Nine workers were charged with animal cruelty in connection with the case Sarah …show more content…
Egg laying hens are trapped in cages given less than a square foot of space. They see no light and they are living in their own feces from the moment they are born. Poop coats their feathers from the battery cages above, it becomes a second skin. They are given chemically enhance food to mass produce eggs. Broiler chickens are given growth hormones, antibiotics, and genetically engineered feed. The same is for milk cows and beef producing cows. Cows are outdoor animals, but in factory farms, they will never touch grass or see the sun until the day they are being slaughtered. A cocktail of drugs is given which will expand the cows and make milk and beef production boom. The author states “Nearly 22,000 pounds of milk a year (That’s more than double what your forebears produced just 40 years ago”) The number of pounds of milk produced in 1972 by individual dairy cows was 9,863 in 2012 it was 21,697, that’s a 120% increase because of factory farming. Pigs just like chickens are confined to a tight 7 by 2 feet box. Their legs will eventually wear out with the mass production of weight and will eventually be unable to