commonly talked about and referred to. There is another form of abuse which many people have recently been raising awareness of‚ it is called factory farming. Many of us are not aware that the meat that we eat is produced in an abusive way. In effort to grow food animals as cheaply and quickly as possible‚ farmers cram as many animals as possible into factory-like warehouses. Many animals spend their whole lives in cages‚ crates or pens and no consideration is given to their comfort or needs.
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Factory farming speech. What really is factory farming. Well i am going to tell you about factory farming. First off we can all do something about this. How would u feel about thousands of animals crammed are being crammed into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates. They are basically forced into cannibalism because they scratch each other and peak because they are so hungry What sense would be affected first? Smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death. The sound of
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Name: Abdullah Alghamdi Instructor Course code Date Factory Chicken Farming Factory Chicken Farming is the practice of raising chicken in a confinement at high stocking density. A farm operates as the factory. The main product of this industry is eggs and chicken meat for human consumption. Confinement at this high stocking density is one of the emerging practices aimed at producing the highest output at the lowest cost by relying on scale economics‚ modern machinery‚ biotechnology and global
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In past decades when someone said‚ “you are what you eat” a person was able to respond quite easily. Unfortunately in recent years it has become harder and harder to answer truthfully due to the growth of the factory farming industry. The average american is completely oblivious to what exactly the meat and animal products they consume contains. In 2012‚ the average American consumed 71.2 pounds of red meat and 54.1 pounds of poultry ‚ according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Wall
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Moon Baby Amy Zhao Critical Thinking: Farming for the Future The United States government should subsidize the feed of animals on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)‚ because this method of producing food is efficient‚ cost-effective‚ and in terms of economics‚ is favorable overall compared to the traditional idea of a farm. A modern practice implemented since the 1940’s‚ factory farming has revolutionized the meat industry‚ producing mass amounts of cheap meat with less land space
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consumers. Through the many packaged and wrapped meats‚ people go through everyday‚ there was bloodshed in an immoral manner. Business and industries have done a good job of keeping such methods in the shadows. It couldn’t be more clear to me that factory farming not only paves the way for animals abuse‚ environmental pollution‚ and low quality food‚ yet can even be harmful to the consumers themselves‚ and for
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Social: Due to the rise of factory farming‚ animal activists have made an influential trademark on society. Ex‚ The Humane Society Of The United States (HSUS)‚ Peta (2)‚ the Anita Krajnc pig case‚ activists protesting against Canada Goose Likewise‚ with animal activism‚ veganism has turned into a social trend partly because of its glamorization on social media and through celebrities endorsing veganism such as Miley Cyrus and Mike Tyson. This social craze received lots of controversy from other
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The Lasting Effects of Factory Farming Undercover investigations of factory farms brings a light to what is being kept behind closed doors for a company’s profit and gain at the expense of severely abused animals and harmful environmental factors. As reported by an article from The Washington Post‚ harmful antibiotics are used in everyday life of the factory farmers to make their jobs easier and the food cheaper on the market. These antibiotics cause damage not only to the environment and the animals
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Have you ever thought about where your meat comes from or what kind of life the animal has lived? Almost all the meat stocked in grocery stores and food facilities come from factory farms which are large scale industrial operations that are the home to thousands of animals such as chickens‚ cows‚ pigs and turkeys. Such animals are raised strictly for food consumption and never see the light of day‚ according to (ASPCA 2015). Also‚ according to dosomething.org (2015) there are approximately 70 billion
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Factory Farming: Cruel or Not? Have you ever thought about where your food‚ mainly meat‚ milk‚ and eggs in this particular case‚ comes from? To keep up with the abundant demand for food in today’s world people are always looking for ways to better supply that demand. Factory farming is a farm where animals are raised on a large scale using intensive methods and modern equipment. This method is cruel to animals for many reasons‚ such as very small living space‚ poor diet‚ numerous forms of abuse
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