Factory farming

Factory farming needs to be more closely monitored because it is a leading cause of animal abuse. The definition of animal abuse is:“The intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law” (UIA). On factory farms, animals are confined to battery cages, gestation crates, farrowing crates, feedlots and veal crates for the majority of their lives. These forms of containment cause severe pain and disease to the animals.…

In each of the “red meat” categories, factory farms produce over ninety percent of the aliments put onto American tables. Recently, a large anti-agriculture organization by the name of PETA, has been rallying against factory and industrial farming by holding rallies, writing emotional articles, and through academic journaling in attempt to put an end to what they see as outrageous cruelty to animals that are domesticated in factory farms. Published just two years apart, in 2017 Timothy Hsiao…

argument “Against Meat” Jonathan Foer gives his personal opinion on the problems with factory farms and shares why he thinks we do not need to eat meat to satisfy ourselves. Foer’s main point of this article is the struggle he faced with the contradictory nature of our values. He also believes that factory farms cause a significant amount of problems such as global warming, deforestation, and pollution. Factory Farms produce more than 99 percent of the animals eaten in the United States and…

Factory farms are also known for raising animals under appalling conditions. The majority of the farm animals live their entire life without feeling the sun on their backs or tasting fresh grass. Pigs, for example, are separated from their mothers only two weeks after birth, and are put in windowless, dirty sheds without fresh air, sunlight or ability to go outside. Day in and day out they are forced to stand in their own toxic waste and choke on the fumes they generate. The sheds are so small…

We encounter it every day in supermarkets, in fast food restaurants, and even in movie theaters. Factory farming is a major agricultural crisis brewing for the last twenty or more years, but today consumers have options to help stop it. While the food industry profits from animal cruelty and massive pollution, ordinary farmers are sunk further into debt. The livestock are loaded with chemicals and antibiotics, thus making it unhealthy for humans to eat. Finally, the food industry is defiantly…

in such massive quantities as it is today. Large amounts of animals such as cows, pigs, chicken, ducks are being raised under cruel and unsanitary conditions in factories, where they are crammed together, fed antibiotics to promote faster and unnatural growth without the exposure of fresh air and natural light. Animal cruelty and factory farms have been a hot topic discussed throughout history as it is being a rapidly growing nationwide problem.CAFO stands for concentrated animal feeding…

billion animals are slaughtered each year. These animals are killed cruelly by the billions in places know as factory farms solely for the purpose of consuming them. These places have become a highly controversial topic because of the methods they use when it concerns the caretaking of the animals and because of the effects their products have on certain aspects of society. The number of factory farms should be reduced because the production and consumption of animal source foods not only leads…

family vs. factory farms, animal diseases, slaughter and much more. Foer does not a directly attempt to convince the reader to become vegan, however his main idea does focus on many problems of the meat industry being solved by people becoming vegan. But is this solution realistic? Foer himself is vegetarian, and in the book he shows a pro vegan attitude. Especially now with his newborn son, it is important for him to choose food carefully for both him and his family. Foer argues against…

animal cruelty runs deeper than a group of teenagers setting a cat on fire to watch it suffer, farming associations violently kill and insensitively care for the animals in their possession. Pigs, cows, rats, chickens, horses, etc. are all smart and unique animals, but behind closed doors they endure brutal cruelty. The Humane Farming Association gives insight on the conditions of these farm animals: “Factory Farm…

a lot of manufactures assemble their products with corn. They had found that corn has been positive for E. Coli yet, it is part of the diet that the animals within their factory farms are eating. It is amazing that even if the animals are positive for E. Coli they still use them for food. Due to the negligence of these factories, E. Coli has spread to the consumers and resulting in the death of a young child named Kevin. His…