Slaughterhouse

Factory farming is a cruel, unsanitary, and abusive practice that has many harmful affects not only the animals confined in slaughterhouses, but also on unsuspecting consumers. By creating tighter government regulations regarding how the animals are raised and how the meat is treated, we could avoid all of the potentially deadly side effects linked to factory farming. While mass production of poultry and beef has done wonders for restaurant supply and company profit, the measures taken to…

What is veganism? You may think that veganism is nothing more than a diet, but really it’s a lifestyle. Most people would say that veganism simply means you don’t eat meat, dairy, or eggs, but that’s only part of it. The idea of being vegan is to lessen the exploitation and cruelty to animals whenever possible, whether that be for food, clothing, or other products such as makeup that is tested on animals. Animal agriculture also has a significant negative impact on the environment. Having or…

more than 15,000 distributed in 117 countries. The great power of buying fast food chains and their demand for uniform product causes fundamental changes in how cattle are raised, slaughtered and processed. These changes have made the work in slaughterhouses, is the most dangerous job. Immigrant workers mostly are not registered, nor compensated (as shown in the film). (The Economist, 2010) The issue of migration of Mexicans to the US is a phenomenon that involves two distinct societies…

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser exposes the evolution of the fast food industries and the dangers and the negative ways in which it boomed. The first chapter, The American Way reveals the progressiveness of some fast food founders such as Ray Kroc. As the fast food industry grew and evolved, the way meals were served and made changed as well. The fast food restaurants started out having neon signs to attract customers cruising by on the roads and had waitresses known as carhops serve the food…

Fjällräven, a subsidy of Fenix Outdoor, is Swedish company specializing in outdoor equipment-clothing, tents, sleeping bags and so on. Ever since Fjällräven was founded just over 50 years ago, we have had one strong driving force: to develop products that make it easier for people to enjoy the countryside (About Fjällräven - Fjällräven, n.d.). The Kånken Backpack, the Greenland Jacket, Vidda Trousers and the Expedition Down Jacket are some of its classics. THE PRODUCT: GREENLAND NO.1 DOWN JACKET…

The United States Government has done little to nothing to prevent the slaughter of equine. While they passed laws to end slaughter strictly within American borders, they have done nothing to stop kill buyers. These kill buyers would ship the animals over our borders into other countries. Some possible solutions could be stricter border control on a federal level, or if found ineffective, an alternate solution would be re-legalizing humane slaughter in the United States to prevent unnecessary…

requirements of the modern world. His characters are found fantasizing in their attempt to cope with the seemingly irrational realities of life. For instance, Malachi Constant in The Sirens of Titan, Jonah in Cat’s Cradle and Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five seek imaginary props to their lives which have otherwise become intolerable thereby affording a possible or a potential mode of survival to…

abused and mistreated, and are slaughtered in a cruel manner. According to USDA statistics, 9.7 billion animals were killed for food in the year 2000 (this does not include aquatic animals like fish.) Many animals die before even getting to the slaughterhouse due to disease, injury, suffocation and much more due to today’s factory farming practices. These practices are even harmful for the employees that work there; many people are injured working with the animals or slaughtering them, diseases…

languages so that immigrants could also read it, and thousands of letters were written to the White House calling for meatpacking reform. President Theodore Roosevelt, not believing what he read, ordered a special commission to investigate Chicago’s slaughterhouse, which confirmed Sinclair’s findings. Sinclair himself was invited to the White House to discuss his book with the President. The President himself admitted, “There is filth on the floor,…

farming community. It became what we today know as Brighton in 1807 and half a decade later voted to join within the City of Boston. Brighton’s roads, people, and economic success was influenced greatly by the cattle industry housing multiple slaughterhouses and the Brighton Stalk…