Factory farming

legalization of gay marriage. Animal liberation is seen as the next logical step in our society but, we are far from it actually happening. The truth is we do not see anything of what is actually happening to the animals on large corporate farms and factories. This is something done on purpose to…

farmers to raise their animal produce with the least amount of cost necessary. 100’s of acres of land for cattle are no longer necessary because food and water can be easily brought into a condensed operation. Basically, it is a way for those in animal farming to offer plenty of produce with lower costs to the farmer and to the consumer. However, there arises the cost of the secondary issues such as air, water and soil pollution. More profit for the farmer but generally a higher cost for the…

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or also known as CAFO’s are another cause for the contamination of water. CAFO’s are giant livestock farms where thousands of chicken and cows are housed into small confinements and live in horrible conditions. When so many animals are stored in a limited space manure will become a problem for the farm, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, “CAFOs produce some 300 million tons of untreated manure each year (about twice as much as is generated by…

Many people concern on what is right and wrong for animal treatment. These arguments are a major issue because many different views and beliefs of people reflect on them. Manly fighting and understanding who has the right over animals is the major concept. Since animals can not speak and choose for their own actions, many people believe that a truthful owner should have the say on what is right for their animal through their beliefs. No matter what regulations are set both sides of the argument…

Factory Farms typically have multiple barns but just one barn can hold up to five hundred piglets when Scully visited a Factory Farm he was deeply affected when their: “Eyes appear between the slats of the fences… Some [piglets] are up on their hind legs, forelegs curled over the fences of their pens, ears half-erect…

Another downside of the Industrialized Farming Animal Production is that they have created an escalating range of detrimental environmental effects on local and regional water, air and soil resources (Carlin). “More than half, 54%, of all confined farm animals by weight are concentrated in just 5% of the country’s industrial animal production facilities” (HSUS 2008). The majority of the environmental harm caused by these factory farms results from the high volume of waste that must be stored…

Slaughterhouse Abuse Every day, thousands of animals are killed due to improper and inhumane ways of killing for their meat. According to Animal Rights Action, there is such a high demand for meat, workers don’t stop for anything. With improper and poor methods of killing, this can lead to unsafe work areas for the workers, fecal contamination with meat, bacteria and pathogens landing on meat, it makes you second guess where your meat, eggs and milk came from. A lot of times when slaughter…

Many activists for animal rights have argued that the animals that we are killing for food have emotions, and therefore, have a right to life. However, one experiment has shown that “over the past few decades, tool use, once considered a skill exhibited by humans alone, has been seen in many species [such as the octopus]…” (Clemmitt). While these animals have been found to have an innovative intelligence, no experiment has been conducted to allow the world of science to truly understand the…

but in order to meet the demand of our large population things needed to change. Large companies began creating factory farms in place of regular farms. Animal activist, John Peck, stated that Wisconsin’s new slogan should be “The land of 10,000 Animal Waste Lagoons” after factory farming took over. The waste that he is referring to was created by the manure of the animals inside the factory. The lagoons are known to leak into surrounding lands, homes, and bodies of water. They…

We now have highly mechanized assembly lines in which machines take the brunt of the work. In the example of the cattle slaughterhouses, one saw touches thousands of hides. The hide of each animal has survived life in a CAFO (concentrated animal farming operation). The hides having excrement caked on them before they go for slaughter.…