Factory farming

gross amounts of factory farming have eliminated that possibility. Cows, used for a variety of goods from meat to milk, are abused daily. For a cow to produce milks, “cows must be impregnated yearly – resulting in mastitis” (Brooks 12). Mastitis is a very serious infection found in dairy cows which causes pain and swelling of the udder. A cow’s very existence in factory farming is an abomination of nature. Their bodies are not meant, nor built to withstand such treatment; and all factory farm…

Subsidies As a direct result of factory farms, CAFOs, and AFOs being so big, they go through a tremendous amount of feed. To help factory farms produce meat at a fast rate and a cheap price, the government provides them with direct and indirect subsidies. According to Richards and Richards (2012). Without these feed discounts accounting to a 5 to 15% reduction in operating costs, it is unlikely that many of these industrial farms could remain profitable.” Since these farms are not paying for…

however is necessary to keep productivity at the levels needed to supply society’s demand for its meat intensive diet. However Peter singer is correct that animals deserve rights because they share common interests with humans although boycotting factory farming meat certainly won’t sustain society’s desire for a meat intensive…

local water around the hog factory. The researchers have come up with several different ideas to try and stop the pollution from spreading into the air and water. “People just can’t ignore this,”(Hog). said Naeema Muhammad, a co-director and community organizer at the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network. “The air stinks, the water is contaminated and property values are deplete”(Key). This new technology should help with the pollution problem that pig farming can cause. This new…

both the animal and the people who are consuming them. The close confinement of animals held in factory farms does present a breeding ground for viruses and contagious diseases. In addition to this, the animals are fed substances that are far from what their bodies are naturally used to consuming. The animals are treated cruelly and as lesser beings. Conditions in the slaughterhouses and factories cause diseases among the imprisoned animals, often getting treatment for the animals does not…

As I walk into my local Stop & Shop or Market Basket I am overwhelmed by my choices. I look at some of the products and sometimes I find pictures of small farms with wide green pastures. That is how the industrial food system wants us to interpret it, although I know this is far from reality. Most of these industrial farms do not even have animals, and the ones that do are simply awful. In the essay “The Future of Food Production, the author, Sam Forman mentions that as soon as food production…

Should Factory Farms Be Put to an End Are factory farms really the most effective and efficient way of producing and feeding the world? Some say factory farms are necessary to be able to feed the world, however, what if there was a healthier, more efficient way of feeding the world. Factory farms are slowly worsening our world by being a major threat to biodiversity, and being unhealthy for the environment around it as well as being extremely unethical. Factory farms are becoming unhealthier…

be nearly impossible to make the entire globe change their dietary habits. So even if you are not physically harming the animal, you are just as guilty as the one that is. So instead of pointing fingers and making accusations against the corporate factory farmers. Forget about food, even the clothes and accessories we buy and wear aren’t all made out of vegetarian organic materials. The leather shoes we buy, the wool sweater we wear, all come from an animal. Now whether or not we are physically…

Should factory farms like (Smith Farms) have gestation crate and the usage of drugs they give their livestock’s, and other farms at that. The pigs are given a limited amount of space of 2 foot wide cage there entire life until taken to the slaughter house. They bite down on the bars which causes the gums and teeth to break down. Gestational crates are too inhuman to the point where the pigs go mentally crazy. The livestock aren’t being treated right the over usage of antibiotics and drugs are…

Animal Rights A huge controversial topic that has been brought up in recent society is the idea of animal rights. Animals in this society are a huge consumer good and one of the biggest sources of food. However, they are also used for scientific experimentation and product testing and many people have a problem with this. Other people think that animal rights is a pretty dumb idea and we could not have survived if we implemented too many animal rights. When it comes to animal rights, both sides…