Agricultural Animal Abuse-Change Is Needed
Agricultural Animal Abuse-Change is needed
DeVry University
Kelly Black
Today’s animal production systems are designed to produce massive quantities of animal meat for human consumption as cheaply as possible, while obtaining the highest quality product as possible. However, this brings to question the abusive measures involved to achieve this goal. Animal rights activists such as P.I.T.A, protest, the conditions in which the animals are forced to live. The living conditions include small cages that can hold thousands of animals in very crammed spaces. This they consider harmful and un-natural. For an example, United Egg Producers Certified.( January 2006) has consider the process involving laying hens, the feeding of those animals are restricted at certain times to encourage or increase the egg laying. Other extremely painful measures include the clipping of their nails and beaks which is commonly known to inflict extreme pain, yet no pain relief is given.
First the human population in this country relies heavily on this animal production system due to the high demand for animal meat. The upside of this production system is that the animals are housed within the farm production factories, and are not subject to the discomfort of adverse weather. The downside of this system would be the extremely crowed conditions and the un-natural environment that they are forced to endure. In this system most animals are tied down and or altered to prevent injury to themselves and others, in turn, the confined animal remains unable to sit or turn around within this confined cage. One of many concerns are that the animals ability to articulate natural behavior’s. Many people strongly believe that animals should not have the same rights as us humans, But according to the United States Department of Agriculture “research has proved that practices like trimming off a third to half of a bird 's beak or cutting off a dairy cow 's tail is too stressful to be condoned. It has
DeVry University
Kelly Black
Today’s animal production systems are designed to produce massive quantities of animal meat for human consumption as cheaply as possible, while obtaining the highest quality product as possible. However, this brings to question the abusive measures involved to achieve this goal. Animal rights activists such as P.I.T.A, protest, the conditions in which the animals are forced to live. The living conditions include small cages that can hold thousands of animals in very crammed spaces. This they consider harmful and un-natural. For an example, United Egg Producers Certified.( January 2006) has consider the process involving laying hens, the feeding of those animals are restricted at certain times to encourage or increase the egg laying. Other extremely painful measures include the clipping of their nails and beaks which is commonly known to inflict extreme pain, yet no pain relief is given.
First the human population in this country relies heavily on this animal production system due to the high demand for animal meat. The upside of this production system is that the animals are housed within the farm production factories, and are not subject to the discomfort of adverse weather. The downside of this system would be the extremely crowed conditions and the un-natural environment that they are forced to endure. In this system most animals are tied down and or altered to prevent injury to themselves and others, in turn, the confined animal remains unable to sit or turn around within this confined cage. One of many concerns are that the animals ability to articulate natural behavior’s. Many people strongly believe that animals should not have the same rights as us humans, But according to the United States Department of Agriculture “research has proved that practices like trimming off a third to half of a bird 's beak or cutting off a dairy cow 's tail is too stressful to be condoned. It has
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