There is no doubt about it, meat contains highly toxic substances that are responsible for many deaths and diseases. In the September 1999 issue of the Emerging Infectious Diseases, approximately 76 million foodborne illnesses - resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths occur in the United States each year from improperly cooked or diseased meat(Licher). Vegetarians are much healthier when they substitute other nutrients for meat. Furthermore, on today’s factory farms animals are crammed by the thousands into dirty, windowless sheds and tied to wire cages, gestation crates, barren dirt lots and other cruel confinement systems. Sometimes regardless of how much a person is interested in being healthy and a animal-lover people simply
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Factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs - always at the animal’s expense. These giant corporations found that they can make more money cramming animals into unsafe areas, even though many animals get sick and die. These animals never get a chance to raise a family, move around soil, build nests or anything that is natural and important to them. Most of the animals don’t see the light of day or know what fresh air feels like until they are loaded onto the trucks to go to the slaughter house. Images of long green pastures with animals grazing is a faint memory. Furthermore, the animals are deprived of exercise, fed drugs to fatten them and keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them and genetically altered to grow faster or produce more milk or eggs than they would naturally - many animals die inches away from their water and food because they are crippled under their own weight. When it is time for the animals to meet their fate they are loaded onto trucks and driven miles through all weather extremes to the slaughter house without food or water. The animals that survive the treacherous journey will have their throats slit then, plunged into scalding hot water for defeathering or hair-removal tanks while their bodies are being skinned or hacked apart all while they are conscious. With all the conditions of the animals in factory farms it is hard to believe people still support them so strongly, unfortunately people have their
Factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs - always at the animal’s expense. These giant corporations found that they can make more money cramming animals into unsafe areas, even though many animals get sick and die. These animals never get a chance to raise a family, move around soil, build nests or anything that is natural and important to them. Most of the animals don’t see the light of day or know what fresh air feels like until they are loaded onto the trucks to go to the slaughter house. Images of long green pastures with animals grazing is a faint memory. Furthermore, the animals are deprived of exercise, fed drugs to fatten them and keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them and genetically altered to grow faster or produce more milk or eggs than they would naturally - many animals die inches away from their water and food because they are crippled under their own weight. When it is time for the animals to meet their fate they are loaded onto trucks and driven miles through all weather extremes to the slaughter house without food or water. The animals that survive the treacherous journey will have their throats slit then, plunged into scalding hot water for defeathering or hair-removal tanks while their bodies are being skinned or hacked apart all while they are conscious. With all the conditions of the animals in factory farms it is hard to believe people still support them so strongly, unfortunately people have their