Factory farming

Montana, the state where winter seems to never go away and spring seems to be only a few weeks and suddenly it is summer and seems even when naked your body is boiling and no matter the amount of ice filled cold water you can’t stay cool enough. Don’t get me wrong I love winters and wouldn’t trade Montana winters for anything in the world but at the same I also am an individual whose moods are highly dependent on the weather and so when the cloudy skies and freezing cold temperatures finally…

on a daily basis. As the director Eric Schlosser pointed out, “The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…” is a testament to how our food has been treated. Now a days, animals are neglected and thrown into factories to further companies’ mass production and assembly lines with profit being their main motive. Because of the carelessness of the animal’s well-being, the animals suffer with disease and horrible living conditions. It is our duty as the consumers…

In the article ‘Rodeo Animals’ by ProCon.com it states that in multiple peoples opinions animals used in rodeos are abused, mistreated and neglected. But they are healthy, socialized, famous, loved and well treated animals. The animal also love the attention. Animals in rodeos are not abused. Despite some people's determination to believe that animals used in rodeos are unhealthy and abused. The majority of people are unaware that the animals are from notable and local farms; where they are…

Pollan believes the industrial food chain is a bad process to make food. One example that he mentioned was, “Basically, almost all of the cattle in the feedlot are are sick. And it’s their corn-based diet that makes them ill” (58). This quote indicates that if the cows are sick we would barely have any meat or our meat would be ill and that would cause us to feel ill. He also announced, “By giving antibiotics to the millions of cattle in the U.S. we are actually breeding new superbacteria that…

An “Animal Factory Farm” is a large-scale industrial operation that houses thousands of animals raised for food, such as chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs. The producers treat them with hormones and antibiotics to prevent disease and maximize their growth and food output ( “11 Facts,” “Farm,” “Factory,” Kaplan, Porter). No doubt, animal factory farm is hurting the environment and harming the human health (“Factory”). To afford the daily food that people need, the U.S. raised and…

Michael Pollan writes “An Animal’s Place” in which targets mainly at the United States meat industry on how cruelty and unhuman they handle live stocks during the raising and slaughtering process. In this article, Pollan talks about how we, as human-beings, treat domestic animals with no respect and cause them a tremendous amount of pain both physically and mentally. Using Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation” as his fundamental reference, Pollan provides readers with facts and continuously asking…

The quality and preferences of customers to Australia beef makes this one of the most powerful industry on the country and major export item that makes it a preferable segment of the business to be discussed. Supply Chain Description The supply chain of the red meat industry in Australia is dominated by beef because it is a significant part of the red meat production and export in Australia (Newsome & Llewelyn, 2014). Steps of the production of beef and its stakeholders The following are the…

Response to Brian Walsh’s “ Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food” In Brian Walsh article “Getting Real about the High Price of Cheap Food” Walsh is trying to capture the attention of many unaware Americans and inform them on how our food supply is being made and processed. Many Americans have this image that our crops and meats come from a happy farm like Walsh says, when in reality it is being produced from places Walsh describes as “horrific”. In the article Walsh begins with…

Wolves may not attack humans often, but they do attack their farms quite frequently. Wolves will attack farm animals that are led astray from their respective groups; calves especially. In a four year span between 2001 and 2005, 54 Wisconsin farms had been victim of depredation (Lehmkuhler). However, physically harming or killing farm animals is not the only effect wolves have on farms. The presence of wolves nearby induces stress on the livestock which, “can result in increased susceptibility…

Throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, I made a promise to the Numenii to become an archaeologist. My last night in Italy, I stayed awake listening to Florence's Duomo and I knew there was no other option. Living an ocean away from what I love is difficult. I can get close, but never close enough. After reading about the bog bodies of Northern Europe, I wanted to understand bog mummification. With the nearest bog 4,000 miles away, I made my own. Researching the science of the bogs…