In USA Today an article titled “Do You Know How That Chicken Got to Your Table?” stated that chickens housed in factories are being abused, suffering and slaughtered inhumanely. Due to this thought, an inhumane treatment campaign was done by the Humane Society of the U.S. in 2008 which was passed in, California, allowing hens to be raised in a more freely environment and in the states of Michigan, Oregon, Ohio and Washington they mandated more humane housing. Although chickens are placed in a more free and humane housing environment, they are still enclosed in a small area. USA Today stated that chickens are being abused, but no animal abuse or inhumane slaughter has occurred - legally speaking - due to federal laws which do not protect chickens.
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Chickens were one of the first animals to be raised in a factory farm setting and assisted in the development of vaccinations and antibiotics. Due to this people are able to treat chickens with the appropriate antibiotic when sick. An animal rights activist tends to worry that the use of antibiotics would cause a risk to our health. Both medical and public health expert have indicated that there can be overuse of antibiotics, which can start to become an issue if being misused because it might pose a major health threat to the public. In the Los Angeles Times a woman named Karen Dillion has an article titled “Showdown Looms over Antibiotics”. In this article, Karen interviewed Russ Kremer and reported “it is truly harmful to everyone to feed antibiotics to animals just for growth promotion and economic gain.” Likewise Dr. John Balbus, the director of the health program at Environmental Defense agrees, that using antibiotics should not be used as a feed to help chickens grow. He says that “using antibiotics to treat sick farm animals is one thing. But using antibiotics as routine feed additive to promote growth and compensate for poor conditions is quite another.” Antibiotics being used in factory farms would not impact the individual’s public health, we know that “there is not enough evidence to show a clear link between the use of antibiotics in livestock and health problems in humans” Karen Dillion stated. Both medical and public health experts have studied the issue of antibiotics in many countries and have limited the use of antibiotics in livestock. Factory raised chickens may have received an overabundance of antibiotics as feed in the past, but organically raised chickens are not perfect or vastly different. Free ranged chickens can be given soybean, corn, or seeds as feed but it could have been genetically
Chickens were one of the first animals to be raised in a factory farm setting and assisted in the development of vaccinations and antibiotics. Due to this people are able to treat chickens with the appropriate antibiotic when sick. An animal rights activist tends to worry that the use of antibiotics would cause a risk to our health. Both medical and public health expert have indicated that there can be overuse of antibiotics, which can start to become an issue if being misused because it might pose a major health threat to the public. In the Los Angeles Times a woman named Karen Dillion has an article titled “Showdown Looms over Antibiotics”. In this article, Karen interviewed Russ Kremer and reported “it is truly harmful to everyone to feed antibiotics to animals just for growth promotion and economic gain.” Likewise Dr. John Balbus, the director of the health program at Environmental Defense agrees, that using antibiotics should not be used as a feed to help chickens grow. He says that “using antibiotics to treat sick farm animals is one thing. But using antibiotics as routine feed additive to promote growth and compensate for poor conditions is quite another.” Antibiotics being used in factory farms would not impact the individual’s public health, we know that “there is not enough evidence to show a clear link between the use of antibiotics in livestock and health problems in humans” Karen Dillion stated. Both medical and public health experts have studied the issue of antibiotics in many countries and have limited the use of antibiotics in livestock. Factory raised chickens may have received an overabundance of antibiotics as feed in the past, but organically raised chickens are not perfect or vastly different. Free ranged chickens can be given soybean, corn, or seeds as feed but it could have been genetically