Factory Farm Research Paper

Factory Farms and Animal Slaughter
The world today is becoming less and less conscious of the pain and suffering being inflicted on farm animals. As the outcome, animals are becoming even further tarred in society. Humans have and are continuing to handle these animals as if they are some kind of material goods. Farmed animals are the most exploited and least protected group of animals in the world. These animals have their own lives. They require love, happiness, and everything else that humans need as well. There are animal cops for companion pets but not for factory farm animals and the conditions that they suffer through are often worse than the ones the “cops” deal with. Factory farms are allowed to cram animals into spaces so tight
Large-scale factory farms require people to manage and process the animals. “In the U.S. alone over 56 billion farm animals are killed for food each year” (11 Facts). In addition, a number of secondary industries are supported as well. Drivers, butchers, vaccine producers, and a whole host of other industries help serve factory farming. Factory farming also creates a profit-based system of farming that provides populations with the amount of calories they need everyday to survive and it helps local economies grow as well. Furthermore, raising farm animals is often the most efficient way to produce food for humans. Factory farms produce more meat, milk and eggs in huge amounts for more people. Factory farming naturally lowers the prices of food for a society because it is being produced in bulk formats. The low costs associated with general upkeep of animals in the factory, costs associated with food, and their relatively low wages allow, factory farming to make billions of dollars supplying people what they want. Ultimately factory farming helps feed more people for less money and supports a number of secondary industries as well as its own
That means the industry has the power to define cruelty. Animals are repeatedly mutilated at birth so that they do not harm themselves or others when they get scared or stressed. Most of the time these mutilations are done without anaesthetic. They include removing birds beaks, clipping cows tails, and sanding down pigs teeth. Animals are also crammed into small pens barely big enough for them to stand or lie down and they have absolutely no room to turn around. People protect “companion animals” like hamsters, dogs, and cats while largely ignoring the torture that animals in the food industry endure. If people kick a dog, cat, or hamster they may be guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals, as long as there was “no justifiable purpose”, but if the same thing happened to an animal in a factory farm no one would bat an eye. “In the egg/hen industry 260 million male chicks are killed upon hatching” (Chicken). They are killed because they cannot lay eggs and therefore have no use to the egg industry. In other words animals in the meat industry endure endless hours torture, are not protected by any laws or regulations and are killed if they have no use to the