There are many debates around the world about the topic of animal abuse. Animal abuse in the food industry has become a major problem due to the cruel treatment of animals. Most of the world's population might think that animal cruelty is only found in homes and on the street, but they forget about the other forms of animal abuse that affect the food industry. Large contributors to animal abuse are due to fishing methods, animal testing, and slaughterhouses. "Animals have always been a major part of our society in history and they have played huge roles in agriculture" (ASPCA). Factory farming is a system of confining chickens, pigs, and cattle under strictly controlled conditions. Slaughterhouses are places where animals are killed …show more content…
Chickens are the most abused farm animals. In supermarkets chickens are different than they were 40 years ago because of the conditions they go through in the factory. Factory workers put these chickens or hens through chronic pain and it effects them greatly. Chicks are "debeaked" by searing their beaks off with a hot blade. "The beaks of chickens, turkeys, and ducks are often removed in factory farms to reduce the excessive feather pecking and cannibalism seen among stressed, overcrowded birds" (The National Humane Education Society). Egg laying animals can also be starved to shock their bodies into molting. Force molting is when chickens or hens are starved or denied any food for up to two weeks. This can contribute to suffering or early disease of chickens. "It's common for 5% to 10% of hens to die during the forced molting process" (Lin, Doris). Factory farms dominate food production and put animals through abusive environments that cause them …show more content…
Cows go through a cycle of impregnation, birth and milking. 9.3 million cows are used to produce milk while they're impregnated. "Cows spend their lives indoors, typically on hard, abrasive concrete floors, frequently connected to a milking apparatus" (Farm Sanctuary). Cows are slaughtered for beef in the United States. These cows used for human consumption live for an average of 5 years because they are exhausted after all the intense torturing. "Young calves endure a long and stressful journey to a feedlot, where they are fattened on an unnatural diet until they reach "market weight" and are sent to slaughter" (Farm Sanctuary). Animal abuse in the food industry has allowed the companies to get more money because of the food they
Every year worldwide, over seventy billion animals are killed for food in factories without the inclusion aquatic animals (“Factory Farms Overview¨). The animal rights movement began in Europe during the nineteenth century to protect horses, dogs and cats (Recarte 1). However, now modern animal rights groups have switched their focus to factory farms, test animals and the removal of ag-gag laws. The fight to create less painful and stressful environments in factories and the altogether removal of animal testing and ag-gag laws has been taken on by animal rights groups like ASPCA (“Factory Farms”). The biggest issue currently facing animals is factory farming.
Animal rights are practically non-existent in many different ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to the poor helpless animals. Factory farming effects chickens, cows, pigs, and many other animals that are used for food, milk and eggs. One of the biggest organizations against factory farming is called Compassion Over Killing (COK). They go to great lengths to protest and inform people about animal cruelty.
Robert Gonzales, from Bakersfield, seemed like an average, ordinary man. One night however, he was accused of splashing beach on a small dog, and wrapping the dog’s mouth with duct tape. His goal was to discipline the dog. Gonzales was caught and arrested for abusing the animal. Animal abuse is an occurring problem in the U.S. But can be prevented if we take action.
America’s habitual complacency coexists with its lack of inquisitiveness. People used to know where their food came from because they asked. They knew the country, state, and most likely the farm as well. Currently, society is so far removed from the entire food process that their knowledge of its origin is limited to the grocery store it came from. This disconnection not only creates a lack of appreciation for the source, but a lack of interest in conditions, treatment, and final product too. People’s common “ignorance is bliss” attitude has led to animals’ torturous inhumane treatment, slaughter, and conditions. They are also pumped full of a plethora of preemptive drugs intended to sustain their lives without a physician’s attention.
Cows are presented by dairy companies as happy going animals raised in pastors to run free with loving farmers, although this may be true for small farmers who are organic, this image of free cows roaming free is little to being true for most companies with packaged milk that you see at your local grocery store. Wangnet Valerie says “Most of our dairy products milk come from manufactured farming where most cows live up there whole life indoors and are crammed into crates where they are unable to move and while female cows are milked until they become too weak to stand, at which point they are promptly trucked out to be killed.” Cows are not only milked till point of exhaustion but they are either naturally or artificially inseminated in order to bread for more production of female cows to continue milk production. While these cows are giving birth, the calf’s are taken away so that the famers and manufactures can get the milk that the mother cow has produced for her offspring instead of the providing some to the calf. In the film earth links by Phoenix, it showed the way baby cows are placed in small crammed areas and tied up so that they may not lay down or move these baby cows are feed a liquid diet that doesn’t provide the baby cows with the sufficient amount of nutrients that are need for the growth and development but instead are given something that merely keeps them alive. Also these dairy cows are not only abused physically and emotionally but these cows are also given antibiotics and certain medication to increase milk production which leads these cows to a painful bacterial infection causing a cow’s udder to swell and mastitis. Which then lead to high levels of antibiotics being injected into these cows we are consuming antibiotics daily form not only the meat but the dairy. Suchayan Chowdhury wrote an article on the her finding of levels of antibiotics she found
In the source Environmental Action it is said that about Ninety-nine percent of animal suffering is in farming," chickens, pigs, and cows are kept in captivity day and night. Chickens are the most tortured animal in the farming factory. Five and a half billion chickens are raised every year (Farm Animals). And are kept standing in cramped, tiny cages filled with their own waste unable to move around living immobilized for the rest of their lives. Since chickens are denied normal social interactions they experience boredom and stress that leads them to an unnatural aggression behavior, to stop this aggression from fighting with the rest of the chickens their beaks and toes are cut off without anesthetic. In Factory Farming, Debra Miller talks about how Chickens are drugged to lay more eggs they are bred to be so heavy that their bones cannot support their weight. They never breathe fresh air where they inhale ammonia day after day, causing respiratory diseases, bacterial infection, and congestive heart failures.
The Meat industry treats their workers the same way they treat the animals. They treat these living beings as if they were worthless. Slaughterhouses kill thousands of hogs a day and pack thousands chickens tightly together like a jail-cell. These ani...
Every year millions of animals are abused, injured, and hurt. It seems as if humans are not very concerned about animal rights according to these statistics.. Animal rights is the idea that animals should not have to suffer and be able to be in possession of their life. Some people are willing to sacrifice things such as certain brands of makeup or certain kinds of food to improve animal welfare. For many years animals have been experimented on and placed in factory farms. Factory farming is a method of producing food products where the factories value how much they produce and how much they profit over the welfare of the animals. These farms keep animals confined in small spaces and make the animals eat things they were not originally
Unfortunately, this is not the life of animals, specifically cows, on factory farms. In Peter Singer’s essay “Equality for Animals”, he describes the demeanor of animals on a factory farm to be one of “confine sentient animals in cramped, unsuitable conditions for the entire duration of their lives” (179). In making this comment, Singer urges us to envision the brutal reality for the animals that we selfishly allow to lead horrible lives for our own gain. In the case of dairy cows, they are “treated like machines” until their productivity decreases, at this time the cow is slaughtered even if it could live several more years at a lower productivity (Singer 179). I agree with Singer on this point, a point that needs emphasizing since it is a common misconception that these dairy cows are allowed to live and work, until they pass on naturally. This point alone, of how horrifically animals are treated, is enough to persuade a rational person to question whether they can consciously support this industry. An industry that abuses living, breathing animals under the shelter of the term, food production. In reality, these animals, while large, are not much different than the cat or dog snuggled up at your feet. The only difference between them is that in America, it is not a socially acceptable practice to abuse and eat your feline or canine friends. This certainly encourages one to question how they are able to stomach eating meat, when they know how that cow was
Like many other industries, the farming industry has evolved into big business, “Animals on factory farms are regarded as commodities to be exploited for profit.” In each industry from clothing to instruments, the bosses want to make a profit. The more they can supply with the least amount of waste, the more profit they make. The same goes for factory farming. However instead of humans being the ones directly affected by big bosses, the animals are. They don’t have a voice, and can’t stand up for what is right or wrong. These animals are manipulated in every way to make a better profit. Factory farms mass produce animals for ...
"Preface to 'Is Factory Farming an Ethical Way to Treat Animals?'." Factory Farming. Debra A.
This story Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about an animal revolution over an oppressive farmer. The irony in the story comes when the pigs turn into the very thing revolted against. They exhibit the same cruelty by treating the other animals the same or even worse than previous owners. This cycle of cruelty is shown in the Russian revolution by Joseph Stalin who is represented by Napoleon in the story. Cruelty in animal farm is shown by the human’s treatment of the animals, and the animal’s eventual treatment of each other and the ironic characteristics of the two.
Factory farms have portrayed cruelty to animals in a way that is horrific; unfortunately the public often does not see what really goes on inside these “farms.” In order to understand the conditions present in these factory farms, it must first be examined what the animals in these factory farms are eating. Some of the ingredients commonly used in feeding the animals inside factory farms include the following: animal byproducts, plastic, drugs and chemicals, excessive grains, and meat from members of the same species. (Adams, 2007) These animals are tortured and used for purely slaughter in order to be fed on. Typically large numbers of animals are kept in closed and tight confinements, having only little room to move around, if even that. These confinements can lead to suffocation and death and is not rare. Evidence fr...
"Factory Farming: Cruelty to Animals." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Web. 29 April. 2014.
The animals that are raised in factory farms, and the farms are ran just like any other business. According to the article Factory Framing, Misery of Animals, the factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing cost, always at the animal’s expense. “The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection” (Factory Farming). This is actually quit disgusting that we eat food that walks around in each other’s feces and can attract disease. These animals live a life of abuse, but we sit back and say it’s okay because we will eventually eat them. “Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Research shows that factory farms widespread use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threatens human health” (Factory Farming). These animals aren’t treated with proper care and we act as if they are machines. Chickens for example, become so big and distorted that their legs can longer support them. Eventually they die because they can longer walk to get food or water. According to Factory Farming, most of these animals have been genetically manipulated to grow larger and to produce more eggs and milk than they naturally