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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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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The Horror of Factory Farming While driving past factory farms‚ anyone would assume that animals live a satisfying life style. At first sight‚ the animals look very robust and one would think that they have a healthy diet. Appearances can always be deceiving. What one observes while driving past these farms is not what factory farms actually are. Behind closed doors‚ many things go on that society would never expect. Every year‚ animals on factory farms encounter unimaginable suffering and go
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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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of implementation of the positive aspects. One area of modern farming promoted by the affirmative is factory farming. The intention of this method is the increase output of livestock through concentrating the area used and more closely watching over the animals. However‚ studies of the implementation of this highlights severe ethical‚ humanitarian‚ and ecological concerns. In the majority of corporations that utilize this design‚ animals are packed tightly to the degree where
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None of us like to feel pain‚ but factory farmed animals such as cows‚ pigs‚ and chickens experience great pain in their short-lived lives. The website factoryfarming.com‚ states‚ “a standard beef slaughter house kills 250 cattle every hour.” The method used is “stunning” this is done by using a catapult gun and giving the cows a mechanical blow to the head. It is to render them unconscious‚ but this procedure is terribly imprecise: “as a result‚ conscious animals are often hung upside down‚ kicking
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If the remaining 99% of the animals raised in factory farms in the United States were instead raised in a free range system the increase in resource demands would be incredible. For example‚ cows in todays factory system are raised on a supplemented diet of corn and therefore require no pasture land. If instead‚ all of the 30.2 million cows killed annually were raised on a natural diet of grass it would take over 60 million acres of pasture to accommodate the animals. That is a area of land roughly
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Animal testing has been an issue since the 19th century‚ it all started in the United Kingdom with a French chemist named Louis Pasteur. Even though animal testing has a lot of pros and cons it is very cruel and inhumane. Right now many animals are locked inside cages in laboratories sitting lonely and fearing that they would be chosen to practice an experiment on them. They are forced to inhale cigarettes and they can’t spit it out because their mouth is locked up and they have no movement. They
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Lastly‚ there is disease which is the most important effect from factory farming it can have a big impact on the consumers and the animal. One of the many diseases is mad cow diseases it is also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is said to be caused by feeding dead cows to other cows; the cow becomes infected and so can humans through the consumption of diseased meat (O’Brien 30). There is something that has to change they could either stop feeding dead cows to cows which they definitely
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Is it cruel to keep animals in cages? I will be stating my reasons to why I think it is cruel to keep animals in cages. My definition of this topic is: cruel: Causing pain or suffering to innocent animals or living organism. Cages: A structure of bars or wires in which animals is confined. I will now state my arguments: There are examples all over the world where animals have been taking from their homes and then stuck in cages for the entertainment and pleasure of humans. For example in
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