Should Animals Be Treated In The Food Industry

Annually, one billion farm animals are slaughtered after living lives filled with abuse and pain; however, approximately one million are slaughtered every hour for food. Animals have no legal protection and are denied behavioral expression in food factories and farmhouses. In the food industry, cses of abuse are very well known among employees and companies, but is never brought to court. Animals deserve to have rights in the food industry and should be protected under the law.
Birds, specifically chickens, are very mistreated in the food industry. In a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations, poultry was 35.2% of the meat supply in the world, coming second place to pigs. In food corporations across the
The employees are often aware what they are doing is wrong, but will not speak out simply because they think it is their job to abuse these animals. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, went to a MowMar facility to record what happens on a daily basis to the hogs that are raised there. “The recordings caught one senior worker beating a sow repeatedly on the back with a metal gate rod, a supervisor turning an electric prod on a sow too crippled to stand, another worker shoving a herding cane into a sow's vagina. In one close-up, a distressed sow who'd been attacking her piglets was shown with her face royal blue from the Prima Tech marking dye sprayed into her nostrils ‘to get the animal high.’ In perhaps the most disturbing sequence, a worker demonstrated the method for euthanizing underweight piglets: taking them by the hind legs and smashing their skulls against the concrete floor—a technique known as ‘thumping.’ Their bloodied bodies were then tossed into a giant bin, where video showed them twitching and paddling until they died, sometimes long after.” (Genoways) MowMar trains their employees to treat the animals this way, which causes many employees to believe what they are doing is okay. Abuse is almost never reported in the American meat industry, because big companies would rather keep making money instead of treating the animals in a humane way.
It is impertinent that everyone looks at animal abuse as truly being wrong, and everyone needs to notice the rights of animals. “Whether the ways animals are treated by humans adds to the evil of the world depends not only on how they are treated but also on what their moral status is. Not surprisingly, the rights view represents the world as containing far more evil than it is customary to acknowledge. First, and most obviously, there is the evil associated with the ordinary, day-to-day treatment to which literally billions of animals are subjected.... If it is true, as has been argued, that these animals have a right to be treated with respect, then the massive, day-to-day invasion of their bodies, denial of their basic liberties, and destruction of their very lives suggest a magnitude of evil so vast that, like light-years in astronomy, it is all but incomprehensible.” (Cohen and Regan) Surrounding the food industry, there lies an evil cloud. The cloud surrounds every company that does not treat animals with the rights that they have. It is a dark cloud that will not go away on it’s own. “The philosophy of animal rights demands a commitment to serve those who are weak and vulnerable—those who, whether they are humans or other animals, lack the ability to speak for or defend themselves, and who are in need of protection against human greed and callousness. This philosophy requires this