Factory Farming Research Paper
For more than 3 decades factory farming has been a norm to America. We find it normal to kill an animal for our own needs. We find it normal about what happens on factory farms. The reality is not those farm animals being happy and healthy, but being abused and slaughtered.That is the reality, and it all plays big roles in our health sand enviornment. Some critical dangers of factory farming for the enviornment and people's health include, rise in obesity, drug-resistant bacteria that can lead to infections, pollution, salmonella plus E.coli risk and water contamination that usually lead to higher taxes. Animal products are the main and primary source of saturated fat. Saturated fat has been linked to heart disease and obesity.
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Steriods are used mainly on female cows to increase milk production and to increase the size of the animal for slaughter later when the animal is no longer useful to the factory. The bigger the animal equals the more product after.Unfortuantly, since these animals are being given such large doses in small amounts of time,the infections and diseases are being unaffected whatsoever by the medicine and is reproducing. Once the animal is slaughtered and packaged for you, those same antibiotics ,sterioids and bacteria are still floating around ready to attack you next. When someone chooses to eat their meat and dairy products,that bacteria spread into them. Deadly effects of repeated antibiotic use can lead to drug resistant bacteria which too, can spread to a humans body. This results in sickness,infections and potentionally death. Farmsanctuary.org stated that,"Since the 1950s, antibiotics have been used on factory farms to increase the rate of growth in animals. Today, an estimated 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are given to farm animals for non-therapeutic purposes. Using antibiotics in this way can lead to drug-resistant bacteria; as a result, certain bacterial infections have already become or are on their way to becoming untreatable in humans. Antibiotic resistant infections kill 90,000 Americans every year.'' (Gene
Steriods are used mainly on female cows to increase milk production and to increase the size of the animal for slaughter later when the animal is no longer useful to the factory. The bigger the animal equals the more product after.Unfortuantly, since these animals are being given such large doses in small amounts of time,the infections and diseases are being unaffected whatsoever by the medicine and is reproducing. Once the animal is slaughtered and packaged for you, those same antibiotics ,sterioids and bacteria are still floating around ready to attack you next. When someone chooses to eat their meat and dairy products,that bacteria spread into them. Deadly effects of repeated antibiotic use can lead to drug resistant bacteria which too, can spread to a humans body. This results in sickness,infections and potentionally death. Farmsanctuary.org stated that,"Since the 1950s, antibiotics have been used on factory farms to increase the rate of growth in animals. Today, an estimated 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are given to farm animals for non-therapeutic purposes. Using antibiotics in this way can lead to drug-resistant bacteria; as a result, certain bacterial infections have already become or are on their way to becoming untreatable in humans. Antibiotic resistant infections kill 90,000 Americans every year.'' (Gene