Factory Farming Debates

Have you ever thought about where your meat comes from or what kind of life the animal has lived? Almost all the meat stocked in grocery stores and food facilities come from factory farms which are large scale industrial operations that are the home to thousands of animals such as chickens, cows, pigs and turkeys. Such animals are raised strictly for food consumption and never see the light of day, according to (ASPCA 2015). Also, according to dosomething.org (2015) there are approximately 70 billion farm animals raised for food consumption every year across the world. These types of farms dominate the U.S food production along with some other countries in the world. Factory farms employ abusive practices that increase profits at the expense
Also, this paper will be written on the perspective of animal rights proponents which is speaking on the behalf of all non-human animals which are entitled to the possession of their own lives and their own basic interests such as the needs to avoid suffering. Animal rights proponents also state that animals shouldn't be used as property, food, clothing, research objects, entertainment, or beasts of burden. (Gary Francione, 1995, page 17). The general proponents of this perspective feel that it is morally wrong to have animals treated by humans in a way that would entail causing suffering of any kind. According to a Rolling Stone Article by Nita Rao (December 10, 2013), animals are abused daily in factory farms for the ease of production. There has also been cases of mentally disturbed workers who enjoy the mistreatment of animals. Factory farms are an example of what goes against the view of an animal rights activist or an animal welfare activist. Cows and pigs aren’t born to live indoors their whole lives or even part of their life. They get sick easily and are too depressed, but billions of them are forced to live in confined spaces in dark factories during their abnormally accelerated life just so a person can enjoy a burger for their next meal. Instead of standing up for animal rights, people selfishly consume the meat made by these horrid slaughter farms without thinking twice about it. The saying “ignorance is bliss” definitely applies to this subject. Everyone has the choice to treat the world’s animals humanely and to heal our bodies from all the chemicals and artificial injections, or to allow this epidemic to continue and watch it destroy our