Meat packing industry

Elite Farm Services, a British Columbia chicken-catching company is currently facing harsh denunciation after Mercy for Animals, an animal welfare group released a video documenting the company’s extreme acts of animal abuse. In the video, a number of employees can be seen throwing, stomping on, mangling and dismembering chickens, all while in front of passive supervisors. As of June 13th, 2017, six employees have been fired from their positions and are liable to face charges; while knowledge of…

Ever consider how many federal laws there are that govern the conditions in which farm animals are raised? The truth is, there are slim to none. Every day, millions of Americans consume meat bought at grocery stores, never considering the treatment that the farmed animals had to deal with before being packaged and put onto store shelves. Yes, animals should be used for food, but in a more humane way. On today’s factory farms, thousands of animals, such as cows, pigs, and chickens, are either…

Bureau. Because of this, resources of food will increase at the same time. The average American consumes 209 pounds of meat per year. Today, many kids are suffering from obesity at an early stage in their lives. They are making bad food choices. Kids would rather eat a hamburger or hot dog than a plate of vegetables. Society has changed where the biggest side of a plate is meat than vegetables. Each corner street a person could find a fast food restaurant and not a local market. It is easier to…

livestock. However, it was more common that they sold their livestock for income or use them to assist with manual labor in the farm. The money would then go into buying meat and vegetables, when it was available, from other farmers who would set up a small little booth on the sides of the streets to sell some of their own vegetables and meat. When I asked how often they would go to buy food, she told me that she could not remember. Some of the…

reason I chose this topic is because I knew Krupa was a strict vegetarian, which is followed by many Hindu’s. She does not eat meat, and will not even use knifes and such that have been in contact with meat. The main reason behind this is that she does not believe in hurting animals in any way, especially killing them. Krupa has a 4-year-old child who also does not eat meat, which could potentially cause the child to be under nourished. For the interview, I used the questions listed in the…

Factory farming is unsustainable and destroying the environment. For approximately the last 40 - 50 years, factory farming practices in America have been using any means necessary to supply the outrageous demand for meat. What once started as a small industry made up of individual farms has turned into a multi-billion dollar business at the cost of people’s health and the environment. These corporations bypass any concern for the damage they are creating by worshipping the almighty dollar. This…

is looking for something low in fat and cholesterol, game is a delicious and healthy alternative to many other red meats” (“Why Eat Game”). Animals in the wild tend to be more active than animals kept in small feeding barns. Meat is leaner on animals that are more active. “Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat” (“Why Eat Game”). “Pheasant and partridge also contain a high level of iron, protein, vitamin B and selenium,…

The statement “One man’s meat is another man’s scarcity” provokes a lot of thought and raises many relevant questions. The statement can be interpreted in a number of different ways, but I myself interpret it meaning that what one man might consider sufficient another man may consider insufficient. The statement is put in terms of food and begs the question is this about perceptions of diet and scale, this perception could be taken further and contextualised as a comparison between developed…

Many of the largest environmental concerns facing our society today stem from the world’s obsession with red meat. Grazing cattle are a major cause of erosion, land degradation, and even, according to most scientists, climate change (Steinfield 2006). The production of livestock is, without question, the most anthropogenic (environmental pollution originating in human activity) enterprise that humans engage in. It accounts for the use of 70 percent of agricultural land and 30 percent of the…

and unreasonably so if that’s possible. There even seems to be a cold war in effect between advocates of the “organic” movement and those who staunchly defend conventional practices. This proverbial war is being waged vehemently within the realm of meat production. As more and more horror stories circulate about just how the beef in our Big Macs and the chicken in our McChicken come to be more and more people have begun to advocate a better way. This “better way” is the not so new and, as I plan…