...What's better than burgers on the grill, or crispy bacon with breakfast? To most Americans, nothing. In fact, in 2012, Americans consumed approximately 50 billion burgers and 627 million pounds of bacon. Contrary to popular belief, all this meat is not raised on Old McDonald's farm ("Factory-Farming.com", 2010-2015). As arable land has declined over the last 100 years along with farmers as a percentage of the U.S. population, factory farms have taken their place ("How is Land in The United States Used? A Focus on Agricultural Land", n.d.). However, while factory farms produce more food optimizing economies of scale, modern technologies, and genetic engineering, factory farming more often than not incorporate abusive treatment to the animals. Factory Farming is an inhumane way of producing meat and dairy products due to its common practices of confined living conditions, wide usage of antibiotics and genetic engineering, and slaughterhouse practices. One of the most common forms of animal cruelty in factory farms is the overcrowded and confined living areas of the animals. Chickens are the most confined animal in Factory Farming with up to 120,000 birds on one farm. (Madhani, 2015). Both egg-laying hens and fryer chickens are housed in “battery cages”. Battery cages hold between five and ten hens with each hen allotted between 67 - 76 sq. inches (less than the size of a standard sheet of letter paper). Being confined to such a small area creates multiple physical and mental...
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...PHI 2010: Final Draft. Miami Dade College Philosophy Reduce Animal Cruelty by increasing vegan products I will demonstrate my argument on this research paper mainly about animal’s cruelty in factory farms, which is raising concerns about our environment and health. Many people are becoming vegetarian; some of them because of maintaining a healthy diet but others are against bad treatment and suffering of animals before they are killed. Today’s human society has become less sensitive to animals’ rights and their welfare by producing millions of factory farms to increase meat production as well as poultry and dairy based products. Factory farmers only care about their wealth and high numbers of sales, no matter the quality of our food or health issues while consuming meat full of antibiotics and hormones. [http://realtruth.org/articles/070601-004-ff.html] Some researches have shown; 47 billion animals are killed in food production, plus many more died during transport in overcrowded trucks. Moreover, these animal’s rights are slaughter when they are not longer productive, being thrown into plastic bags to slowly suffocate or to feed other animal while they are still alive. It is said, that during food production piglet, cows or chicken suffer needless mutations. Producing discomfort, stress and pain to these animals [http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?p=454&mora=1] Then, scientists have linked these issues to problems with our food quality and safety. An increased...
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...What Are the Effects of Animal Cruelty? Dalvi Herrera English 135 Professor Michael Gurin August.25, 2012 Do you know what animal cruelty is? This is a common question where people would probably answer with the same response. The thing is that do you really know what animal cruelty is? Animal cruelty is not only physical abuse that animals receive but also on many other factors. This type of animal cruelty mostly occurs on industrial farms. You’re also probably wondering what an industrial farm is. Well let’s just say that it’s a bad thing. A traditional farm is a farm where they raise livestock the original way. What I mean by the original way is that the animals have freedom. Animals have the ability to roam around in big spaces and live how they want with human maintenance. With this freedom, they can grow up to be healthy. An industrial farm is the opposite farm. The purpose of an industrial farm is to raise livestock and then ship them out to be slaughtered. Animals here have no freedom and no right. Animals are made to live under very harsh conditions. The living conditions are very poor. They are forced to live in a small environment with the same kind of animals. It’s so small and crowded that animals could barely move. With so many animals living in a small area, they all live in their own manure. There is maintenance in the farm but sometimes animals just live in such a long period of time in their own manure. This causes many effects but I will explain them...
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...Toby Sullivan MDP 300 D Dr. Schellenberger 4/14/15 Factory Farming This has been a big controversial issue for many years between a wide range of people. Factory farming is a system of large scaled industrialized and intensive agriculture that is focused on profit from animals by keeping them indoors with restricted mobility, according to Merriam Webster dictionary. People all over the world have different views on this point and I plan on making sure my point is very clear throughout this paper. I want give reasons why factory farming should be shut down and then give my opinion on the matter. Factory farm companies are ambitious and want to increase their profits, make the quota for the demand, and still make a great profit. Animals are mistreated and are in pain because the companies only care about money. The cruelty done to these kind animals is something people should be ashamed of. Every year, millions of pregnant pigs also called sows are...
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...is absurd. As horrific as such scenario sounds, we are contributing to these dreadful acts. Factory farming is when large quantities of animals such as cattle, pigs, and poultry, are housed together for mass production for the pleasure of our consumption. As a consumer ask yourself, is the murder of an animal justified? Is wanting a hamburger more important than the suffering and torture of the animal which it came from? Though a large amount of people are for animal rights, most are uninformed of the suffering behind factory farming. If people knew the true conditions in which the animals live, the unacceptable lifestyle these creatures have, and the torturous process that contributes to having food on your plate, we would all be hostile to the practice. Factory farming is unacceptable and it should be abolished....
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...Topic: Factory Farming Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that factory farms are dangerous and abusive and therefore need to be banned. Primary Audience Outcome: I the want the audience to join or support national organizations that protest against factory farms. Thesis Statement: The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural environments. Attention: Close your eyes and step into the world of an individual. You are born into a world where nights and days are never constant (attention getter). You are fed three to five times a day, but no one is there to nurture you. Not even the numerous others crammed into your living space. You grow frantic, scared, and sickly. Now open your eyes, to reality. What I have just described is one of America’s worst ghettos. You know this individual who is trapped in this environment. He is your breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is the meat you eat . Today’s farms not only abuse their animals they also produce harmful diseases and environmental hazards that affect each and every one of us, regardless of whether you consume animal products or not. The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural environments (preview of points and statement of purpose). I. What used to be Old McDonald’s farms have now become factory farms that produce animal abuse...
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...Topic: Factory Farming Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that factory farms are dangerous and abusive and therefore need to be banned. Primary Audience Outcome: I want the audience to join or support national organizations that protest against factory farms. Thesis Statement: The government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural environments. The process of preparing the project: I start with information finding in week 3 by referring to youtube suggested by the lecturer. Then I choose a topic: Factory Farming. I prepare the script for the speech by referring to a few website that I got from google search. I narrow down the main ideas that I want to include in my topic: 1) disadvantages/ danger of factory farming; 2) suggestion to replace factory farming; 3) action that need to be done. Apart from that, I prepare the material supporting my presentation that include the visual for factory harming so that audience can give full attention to the topic, arouse their interest to know more and continue listening to my speech. The Script guideline: I. Attention: Close your eyes and step into the world of an individual. You are born into a world where nights and days are never constant (attention getter). You are fed three to five times a day, but no one is there to nurture you. Not even the numerous others crammed into your living space. You grow...
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...Factory Farm Cruelty NAME School Factory Farm Cruelty Farming started countless years ago, with families raising their own meat and produce. Farmer’s children would support the farm by feeding animals, cleaning stalls, taking care of the animals as much as they could, with dreams of hopefully getting the farm when the time was right. These were the good days, when eating was great because all of our meals mainly came from what we had grown. Meat, vegetables, and dairy products all tasted better because the animals or earth the food came from was completely “happy” and chemical free. Happy means that the animals were well taken care of with plenty of time in the pasture to stretch their legs and frolic around; plants weren’t doused with pesticides and growth hormones. Water from the stream was good enough to drink straight out of the stream, and the air was fresh to breathe. As time went on humans started to evolve around the world, we became smarter, greedier, and by human nature we produced more humans, tenfold. With the ever-growing population small farms contracted, the days of growing your own, for your own, became obsolete. People with bigger farms were forced to risk everything in order to provide enough of a certain type of product to support their town, state, or more. According to Midkiff (2005), farmers would have “to take out loans” in order to supply everything that was needed to produce as much product as possible. “If farmers couldn’t pay their loans because...
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...against animal cruelty or abuse because animals deserve the right to be treated with love, affection, and respect. No animal should suffer cruelty or abuse by the hands of humans. Many people think animals can be discarded like nothing. They deserve the right to live in an environment that gives them the affection, care and love that they deserve. They should not be treated with neglect, used for industrial animal farming or for psychological disorder. Neglecting an animal by not providing the basic care required for an animal to thrive; such as food, water, shelter and veterinary care is against the law. Neglect can occur in many different ways from abandonment, starvation and mistreatment. Abandonment of an animal occurs when the animal is thrown out like trash. Walking the in the streets suffering from the elements. Starvation is another form of neglect; not providing the necessary nutrition is crucial for them to survive. Without water or food animals die of starvation. How can you stand and watch an animal suffer? Humans without emotion, feelings or heart should not deserve the right to own an animal. Chaining up an animal is a form of mistreatment. Some animals are used for fights or as prey for training. Animals that are injured due to mistreatment do not get the medical care they need. Those who misbehave are not discipline right instead they are mistreated by getting kicked or punch. They take their anger out on a defenseless animal. Industrial animal farming is when...
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...mentioning the 2 different types of cruelty that is happening right now, it is time to talk about 2 organizations that are currently helping the animals in danger. The 2 organizations that I will write about are the Humane Society and PETA. First, I will write about the Humane Society and how they are helping animals from cruelty. The Humane Society of the U.S. is the nation’s largest and most effective animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents (HSUS). This organization was founded in 1954 by Fred Myers, Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser. The original name of the HSUS was the National Humane Society. The Humane Society and their affiliates provide direct care to more than 100,000...
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...Animal Welfare Group: Compassion in World Farming Compassion in World Farming is a group dedicated solely to the cause of ending cruelty in farming. The group was started in 1967, in the house of a farmer, who was appalled by the techniques being used in farming that were cruel and inhumane. Compassion for World Farming has grown increasingly over the years and has had great success in their endeavors. The techniques being used are referred to as factory farming. “Factory farming is the modern practice of raising animals for food in extreme confinement, in order to maximize profits. Some of the main issues with factory farming, that the Compassion for World Farming has successfully addressed are: banning veal crates in Europe and the United Kingdom, banning sow stalls in the Europe and United Kingdom, banning chicken battery cages in Europe, to put an end to subsidies and lower the maximum travel time to 8 hours, and the good egg award, which allows hens to live cage-free lives. The group’s main focus when campaigning, is to campaign peacefully and to use the facts and proof to back up their campaigns. This is one of the main reasons the group has had such great success and they have helped a vast number of animals over their 40 year duration. They investigate thoroughly and publish reports of their investigations, which are accessible via their website. They frequently go under cover to gather information and that is primarily how they get...
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...Sanchez April 27, 2008 Animal Cruelty Imagine being a spectator of the most gruesome and inhumane act known to man. Imagine staring deep into a dog’s eye, a dog that is about to embark on the journey of his life. For many animals, including dogs, cats, and farm animals, death is the only destination listed on their life itinerary. Throughout the United states and the rest of the world, animals are being gruesomely cut up and skinned, being experimented on for research, and mainly being mistreated for the most important source of human pleasure. Money to most means success, especially industries like bio-medical research, farming industries, and entertainment; companies in this industry are willing to do anything in their power to gain profit and power, including taking lives of creatures, known as animals. Exploitation according to the Encarta World English Dictionary is “the use of development of something to produce a benefit”. That “something” in this case infers animals. As many as 115 million animals are tested and executed in U.S. laboratories every year. The sad truth about all the inhumane research experimenters are carrying on is that it is paid by the typical American taxpayer without their consent. That’s right, the experiments including the injection of chemicals into rat’s stomachs, the isolation chambers where monkeys are separated from their mothers, and the enhancing of a dogs thigh muscle tissue is all made available by animal product consumers. All those...
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...Factory farming is another way of saying animal cruelty in todays world. A typical day in the life of a factory farmed beef-cow includes being sandwiched by hundreds or thousands of other cows in a feedlot. These cows stay outside no matter what the condition may be, this resulting in severe illness and infection. Winter in Nebraska? Summer in Texas? The cows have to stay outside and fight the risk of death. While on the feedlot, these animals are fed a diet that is detrimental to their health. The goal is to get them as fat as possible. Instead of eating grass, they are consuming corn, causing digestive pains and bloat which leads to the compression of their lungs. On-top of that, the air they breathe is filled with intense chemicals which causes breathing to be painful. So what happens when...
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...Factory Farming Abstract Factory farming is the mass production of pigs, chickens, turkeys, and cows to be slaughtered and made into food. Many activists and organizations have attempted to reduce the problem of factory farming, but it is still a long way from being fixed. Factory farms are used to produce everyday products like bacon, pork, steak, chicken nuggets, milk, cheese, etc. The cost of buying a burger at a local McDonalds is around one to three dollars. If companies were forced by legislation and government officials to practice proper farming techniques, the price of your beloved McDonald’s hamburger will be sure to rise. This could cause a brief stage of net losses for food manufacturing companies. I think it is mandatory to incur these extra expenses for the sake of humanity and animal rights. A small loss in profits is far less important than the pain and suffering these animals have to deal with on a daily basis. In this research paper I will discuss the ethical dilemmas and the conditions of the factory farms, as well as solutions to the problem of animals not having the proper rights. Main Points Animals come in all different shapes and sizes. Society debates how to classify some animals. Scientist view animals as operating equipment. Businessmen see them as commodities. Religious advocates classify them as God’s gift to us. And the majority of Americans see them as food. In America we cannot keep our minds off of cheap tasty...
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