Animal Abuse Essay
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Crystal Wright
English 1102
17 November 2008
Factory Farming Today, life on the farm isn 't what it used to be a few decades ago. The lively green landscape and peaceful barnyard outlook depicted in children’s books have been substituted with unventilated shacks, petite crates, chained pens, and other confinement units central to what is now known as “factory farming.” Factory farming is a term used to describe a method of farming where animals are deprived of space, food, shelter and natural breeding patterns (Flynn 202). This is a form of large-scale, industrialized agriculture. The primary aim of factory farms today is become to maliciously torture, damage, mutilate, or brutally kill the animals for mass production and profit. This is inhumane because it imposes torment on living creatures. The meat intake of Americans has significantly increased in the past few decades. As a result, more humanitarian treatment of farm animals and efforts to stop the spread of diseases are needed immediately to ensure the safety of all. The farmed birds and cattle used for meat are kept captive in dreadful conditions with layers of dead chicken or cattle as a carpet for other animals to step upon. This causes the initiation of disease, and not only that, but also the vast expansion of it due to congested space affecting meat eaters in a deadly manner. The effects of mass factory farming includes the increase of disease multiplication, food poisoning, crime rate, domestic violence, and a crush of moral values in hopes of gaining a fortune at the expense of torture. The chickens used for meat are distorted genetically in order to boost their growth rate to twice their innate size and structure. Due to this push, which exceeds their biological margins, millions of chickens are slaughtered before reaching the desired slaughter weight at six weeks (Chen 25). Chickens are kept in confined areas where locomotion is almost impossible, causing them to develop
Crystal Wright
English 1102
17 November 2008
Factory Farming Today, life on the farm isn 't what it used to be a few decades ago. The lively green landscape and peaceful barnyard outlook depicted in children’s books have been substituted with unventilated shacks, petite crates, chained pens, and other confinement units central to what is now known as “factory farming.” Factory farming is a term used to describe a method of farming where animals are deprived of space, food, shelter and natural breeding patterns (Flynn 202). This is a form of large-scale, industrialized agriculture. The primary aim of factory farms today is become to maliciously torture, damage, mutilate, or brutally kill the animals for mass production and profit. This is inhumane because it imposes torment on living creatures. The meat intake of Americans has significantly increased in the past few decades. As a result, more humanitarian treatment of farm animals and efforts to stop the spread of diseases are needed immediately to ensure the safety of all. The farmed birds and cattle used for meat are kept captive in dreadful conditions with layers of dead chicken or cattle as a carpet for other animals to step upon. This causes the initiation of disease, and not only that, but also the vast expansion of it due to congested space affecting meat eaters in a deadly manner. The effects of mass factory farming includes the increase of disease multiplication, food poisoning, crime rate, domestic violence, and a crush of moral values in hopes of gaining a fortune at the expense of torture. The chickens used for meat are distorted genetically in order to boost their growth rate to twice their innate size and structure. Due to this push, which exceeds their biological margins, millions of chickens are slaughtered before reaching the desired slaughter weight at six weeks (Chen 25). Chickens are kept in confined areas where locomotion is almost impossible, causing them to develop
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