Slaughterhouse

than those who provides food or clothing. Ingrid Newkrik who is a national director of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals declares that six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. Every year the cost of animals to use for experimenting goes up. Animal testing has first been used in 1242, a man named Ibn al-Nafis provided accurate descriptions of the circulation of blood in mammals. However, the use of animal…

Vietnam War. She was the youngest of all 4 children. When Suzanne was a teenager, her favorite novels were A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 1984 by George Orwell, Anna Karen by Leo Tolstoy, Slaughterhouse -5 by Kurt Vonnegut, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L`Engle, Lord of the Flies by…

people need to be fed, and factory farming increases food production. Although the farms could help construct new communities, the waste they produce is imposing and often puts the community at risk. “Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals,” said sociologist Theodor W.…

The constitution guarantees certain unalienable rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately, many corporations have banded together and created an industry that systematically denies the American people these fundamental rights. The current structure of the U.S. food industry is destroying America’s health. The way our food system has changed in the past 50 years has created an unethical industrial farming system that is responsible for the inhumane…

fair to these animals. I believe we should provide farm animals with more equal rights. Farmed animals raised for the meat, dairy, and egg companies are among the most abused in the United States. Many people have revealed abuse on farms and in slaughterhouses so terrible, most people cannot even bear to watch.1 Despite their vast numbers, and severity of abuse they suffer, farmed animals receive only…

personally sent President Theodore Roosevelt a copy of The Jungle. After reading the book the book Roosevelt felt obligated to take action and find out if the instances from this book were truly happening so he sent inspectors to check these slaughterhouses out, and sure enough many of the things said in the books were soon proven to be true. This led to the United States government being pressured to fix this atrocity and quickly because not only were meat sales in the States cut to an all-time…

have been killed. Bombings are destroying crowded cities, and horrific human rights violations are widespread. Basic necessities like food and medicine are scarce. In fact, Stephen O’Brien, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, described Syria as “A slaughterhouse, a complete meltdown of humanity, the apex of horror.” According to www.pbs.org, more than one in ten Syrians have been wounded or killed since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. Americans need to help these refugees and let…

start telling the story to her, except when you get to the end you’ve forgotten the point again” (181). Clearly, the war is traumatizing to a degree where soldiers repress memories unconsciously. The burring of memories continues into “From Slaughterhouse-Five” as Vonnegut could not write about the bombing of Dayton for years due to a fogged memory. This possibly has to do with how quickly things occured during war and the need to focus on staying alive. Finally, Vonnegut considers that…

family who immigrated to America from Lithuania. Jurgis, his wife Ona and their relatives end up getting conned into buying a house with all of their savings near the stockyards and meat packing district in Chicago. Jurgis winds up working in the slaughterhouse where conditions are harsh and unsafe and the pay is low. All of the relatives including the women and the children have to go out and have to seek work to make ends meet. Jurgis and his family all experience hardships from illnesses,…

At the slaughterhouse, those who survived the transport will have their throats slit, often while they’re still conscious.” Our world is lacking compassion. The way they are treating these smart, curious, friendly animals is brutal and…