Factory farming

Hog Confinements The lies everyone is getting told on how bad hog confinements are, this is really hurting the farmers. They put their lives into raising and taking care of theses hogs. Most people don’t really know what the inside of the buildings look like or how many hours the producers are with their pigs each day. Some get up at 5 A.M. and don’t get home till 10 P.M.. Most hog farmers families don’t see them unless it weekends or they go with them to work. They spend hours…

cattle plays a big role in American farming. It is important to learn about the subject of beef cattle for the reason they are huge in your everyday diet. It has thought to be beef cattle to be the best source of protein and meat. There is a lot of process to get the cow to you and your diet. People find this very easy to get it from the store. What is beyond that? What do the cattle go through before they become that steak. The work that goes into this type of farming is different all year…

Europeans continues to develop more than the New Guineans because they have greater access to resources. The New Guineans have always been disadvantaged because the Europeans have mastered the method of animal domestication and gathering. It is hard for New Guineans to develop animal domestication because pigs are the only animals they can access. The Europeans developed because of the Middle East. 13,000 years ago the middle east had lots of food supply and humid. There were more forests,…

US Army’s Combat Food C-ration Previous The "Iron Ration", written between 1907 and 22, is the first US combat food. Cake 3 ounces (85g) 3, sweet chocolate bar 1 ounce (28g) 3 pieces, salt and pepper 1 wrapped pack in tin cans. In terms of composition and quantity, it is closer to the nature of emergency food when it is difficult to supply it, rather than modern field food. It focuses on the characteristics of emergency food that is very compact and later becomes the origin of the D-Ration. In…

The Animal Welfare Act, achieved in 1966, supports most common house pets but does not include farm animals. Nicholas Kristof recently wrote about how chickens are often raised to have breasts so large that their legs can’t hold up their body weight. And other Times writers have written about abuse of many other common farm animals. This is not fair to these animals. I believe we should provide farm animals with more equal rights. Farmed animals raised for the meat, dairy, and egg companies are…

The U.S Justice system and sense of authority is questioned as Carson reports the farmers unjustifiable acts towards animals. Carson describes these animals misery as they were “doomed by a judge and jury” by the farmers. By applying “judge and jury” to animals, Carson personifies them, to reach a sympathetic effect. In our society, we view the death penalty as the pen-ultimate punishment of brutal convictions. However by viewing these animals as humans, the Farmer’s reached this death penalty…

Bovicola ovis is a pale brown parasitic insect with dark brown bands across its body. It is a major economic burden and a nuisance for Australian sheep farmers12. The entire lifecycle of the sheep body louse occurs on the sheep and is approximately 34 days depending on favourability of the environment4. Female lice are capable of producing 2 eggs every 3 days, beginning after the third moult (adulthood). Survival of the lice and it’s eggs is largely dependent on the sheep wool to shield from…

With the ever increasing need for enough resources to sustain our population, factory farms have become a common source to feed the masses. Designed to maximise the output from animals, they run almost nonstop year round. With over 9 billion chickens, 113 million pigs, 33 million cows,and 250 millions turkeys killed yearly, their efficiency is unquestionable. What often goes out of question, however is what it is the animals go through even before they are slaughtered. The very thought that the…

I am concentrating on the medical part of anthropology and eventually going on to medical school. The health of the community is foremost in my mind. The problem in this area is the sewer sludge put on agricultural lands to fertilize the crops. The farmers buy the sludge and truck it to the fields. The problem is the sludge is not tested to determine if there are pathogens living in the supposedly treated sludge. A rancher was having problems with E. coli in his newborn calves. He asked me…

There are three parts to be a positive impact in the agriculture industry. They are a consumer, a worker, and an agriculture advocate to keep the cycle of transactions happening and promoting agriculture educating the public. As a consumer I should be buying locally to support our local economy and neighbors. To I have the produce right next to me, I feel that why go farther away to get the same product that is usually not as fresh because of the processing and time from field to table. Also…