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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The Savagery Of Factory Farming Factory Farming is not only feeding us‚ but destroying us and our only world! Worldwide‚ about 70 billion farm animals are now reared for food each year. This mass production of food uses many antibiotics to speed up the birth process‚ but those antibiotics are still in the meat we eat. The waste and space from the factory farms destroys the environment and is also a danger to human health. The factory farming of animals has a negative impact on human health
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Factory farming Imagine this factory farmed animals crammed thousands into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates.what sense would be affected first? smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death‚ the sound of squealing in fear.This is a typical factory farms. I strongly believe that factory farms should be illegal. In my report I will be looking at pollution- caused by factory farms‚ the use of hormones and chemicals and the cruelty of factory farms. Another reason for I
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Factory farming should be illegal Imagine yourself being born into a world where nights and days are neither constant nor promised. You are fed three to five times a day‚ but no one is there to nurture and love you. Not even the numerous others crammed into your living space. You spend each day growing more and more frantic‚ scared‚ and sickly. This is life as you know it - from the day you are born‚ until your last dying breath. What I have just described is one of America’s worst ghettos. The
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There have been minimal attempts to end factory farming or alleviate the harmful effects of it. Most of these few attempts have been essentially ineffective in convincing people that factory farming harms humans and their environment. Therefore‚ further action must be taken to get the message out to those who are unaware of the dangers of their diets and end the atrocity that is factory farming. One major attempt at resolving the issue of factory farming has been multiple environmental organizations
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Factory farming is becoming a huge part of today’s world. In total out of both family owned and operated farms and factory farms‚ 99.9% of meat chickens‚ 97% of laying chickens‚ 99% of turkeys‚ 95% of pigs‚ and 78% of cattle are born and raised in factory farms. A common definition of factory farming is‚ “A farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximise production at minimal cost.” Most food is produced in large factories called factory farms. Not
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Factory Farming Factory farming involves raising livestock in a small‚ confined area on a large scale for the purpose of supplying food for human consumption. Hens‚ for example‚ are crammed into cages that are housed in large sheds where there is very little light‚ so that they can keep laying eggs. This makes it cheaper for farmers‚ since they don’t have to spend as much time looking after the welfare of their livestock. There are certainly ethical questions. It could be argued that factory farming
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Animal Cruelty and Public Health Hazards in the Factory Farming Industry Richard Baumann DeVry University Animal Cruelty and Public Health Hazards in the Factory Farming Industry Over the last few decades farming animals for food has grown and evolved into a highly efficient‚ streamlined industry known as factory farming. Factory farms are owned and operated by big corporations‚ and despite the fact they make up only a small percentage of farms in the United States‚ they are responsible
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COMM 100 December 2012 Factory Farming Factory Farming began in the 1920’s. It began because demand for meat‚ milk‚ eggs and other animal products increased. The more factory farmers produced‚ the more money they made‚ which is the essence of the process. They developed techniques to the point where animals didn’t need to be raised outside‚ which saved cost by keeping them in smaller places. Because conditions were filthy‚ disease began to spread among animals. This led to large amounts of
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of the meat industry‚ they are not immune from the effects this industry has. The inhumane treatment of animals‚ dangerous working condition for workers‚ pollution of the environment and health scares of consumers all happen behind the scenes at factory farms. Public attention to the meat industry started in 1906‚ when Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle was published. The Jungle was a tell-all novel revealing the horrors of the meat industry. People were outraged at the truth behind their food
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