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Factory farming is the raising of farm animals under strict indoor conditions. These conditions often include inhumane treatment like branding, confinement and removal of body parts with no anesthetics (¨Factory Farming¨). World wide over 70 billion animals are killed every year, 9 billion of these deaths occurring in the U.S. This equates to 6 million animals per day. This is does not include aquatic animals (¨Factory Farms Overview¨). Treatment in factory farms depends on the animal.…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 48 million people are affected by a form of foodborne illness every year. The food industry has created extensive standards for establishments to follow to prevent or reduce outbreaks, however, these standards haven’t always been put in place. In 1993, one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks occurred in Washington State, Idaho and Nevada affecting 700 and killing four children. What was the common food that all of these…

expensive and it takes a lot of hard labor. The Industrial Organic food chain is also expensive but not as expensive as the Local Sustainable. Also the Industrial Organic food chain still feeds animals a corn-based meal and they cram animals in feedlots. Finally, the Hunter-Gatherer food chain would not be best to feed America because it takes way too much work to get just one meal and many people who aren’t brave enough to kill an animal would die off. The Industrial food chain also takes…

The salmon leukemia virus is one that attacks the immune system and slowly causes the fish to die of other causes. This disease prevents the fish from fighting any other disease it might catch and begins to deteriorate the internal organs. Alex Morton began to show her findings that these fish from the Frasier River contained the virus and she was able to trace them back to the farms she soon became ostracized and put on gag order. To protect the interest of the salmon farm industry the…

People who no longer have use out of their horses dump them at feedlots and put them in the auction market. Schooled horses who have spent years working hard with a family doing shows and events might end up in a kill pen simply for getting injured or sick. Offspring of champion racehorses have ended up in kill pens…

Do Slaughterhouse Animals Lives Matter Amelia Keany ACBS 160D1 10/4/15 Should it matter how animals are housed and treated if they are going to be killed for consumption later? The treatment of animals in slaughterhouses has been an on going controversy in the United States. Many individuals and animal organizations continuously voice their concerns on the treatment of animals in these facilities. The two major issues concerning these slaughterhouse animals…

PSS is not the only example of when artificial selection has gone wrong. There are many positives to artificial selection people just need to become educated and make sure they are not breeding for genes that can have adverse reactions, other than what was originally expected. This does raise the question of the ethics of artificial selection in relation to the quality of life the pigs will have living with the stress gene. Humans have been doing artificial selection for a long time with many…

In the article “Escape from the Western Diet” Michael Pollan talks about how the Western diet is unavoidable, yet, he says people can escape it. Pollan talks about the health problems it causes. The food industry is also one of the issues as they have their methods of selling their products. Then the last point is the main theory the article Nutritionism. Nevertheless, the problems that Pollan has, is that the products that the industries produce are unhealthy. One problem, Pollan has with the…

reconsider where they shop for food, thus narrowing down their options of what to eat. Pollan explains that while it may not seem like they can feel emotions the way humans do, there is no excuse for everything they have to endure in factory farms and feedlots. “Believe me, the people who run those places don’t waste any time thinking about animal suffering. If they did, they’d have to go out of business” (255), the egg farms are especially bad. The laying hen will be forced into a tiny, wire…

Meat is an important part of daily life, yet it is ruining the environment. Processing food today is becoming increasingly unsustainable, especially through the production of meat. As technology advances, easier production methods are created, and meat is cheaper. These new methods come at a cost to the environment because they are emitting more fossil fuels, creating excessive waste, and damaging land. In order to have a more sustainable society, it is essential to use sustainable production,…