Informative Essay: The Animal Treatment Epidemic
Jarret Anderson
Professor Brian Larsen
English 120
12 December 2015 Animal Treatment What would it be like to be stuffed in a shed with thousands of people within close proximity to you? A majority of people do not know what this is like, but farm animals have to go through such terrible treatment every day. There are a variety of other treatments that they go through as well. The animal treatment epidemic needs to come to a stop due to the many inhumane ways that they are dealt with in farms and slaughterhouses. The initial problem that needs to be dealt with is that the farm animals are placed in extremely small areas with little to no wiggle room. According to myfox8.com, …show more content…
One example of this happens to occur when chicken nuggets are being produced. The baby chicks are sent through a conveyer belt and fall into a meat grinder at the end of it. The worst part is that they are sent into the grinder alive. According to humanesociety.org, chickens and turkeys are “... shackled upside down, paralyzed by electrified water and dragged over mechanical throat-cutting blades ... all while conscious.” It seems so wrong to just kill an animal while it’s conscious. When this happens to a human, it’s called murder, but to a farm animal it’s just normal. There are a variety of other gruesome animal deaths that should not be taking place. According to the Article On Eating Animals by Namit Arora, from the EBSCO database, “A typical slaughterhouse in the United States kills over a thousand Mollys a day—lined up, shot in the head, and often cut open and bled while still conscious, an end no less cruel and full of bellowing” (2). The amount of animals killed is just as terrifying as the fact that some are killed conscious. All of these problems could be dealt with very …show more content…
Instead of having the animals placed so closely together, they should actually be placed on a free range with wide open spaces. This would actually allow some of the animals to at least see sunlight for a day in their lives, instead of being cooped up in the sheds and cages with numerous others of their kind. This would not only help fix the first problem I introduced to you, but also the second. Because the animals wouldn’t be placed so closely together, they would get as many viruses or diseases leading to less use of antibiotics. The farm animals would also have a much lower chance of getting an E. coli infection. A way to fix the third issue would just be to let the chickens grow naturally, instead of genetically mutating them. This would also help prevent the creation of new diseases. The solution to the fourth issue is a no- brainer as well. These animals can just stop being killed in these ways if the corporations didn’t allow it. If they wouldn’t change, then the government could step in to prevent the inhumane slaughter of the farm animals. There is no need for these poor animals to be killed like
Professor Brian Larsen
English 120
12 December 2015 Animal Treatment What would it be like to be stuffed in a shed with thousands of people within close proximity to you? A majority of people do not know what this is like, but farm animals have to go through such terrible treatment every day. There are a variety of other treatments that they go through as well. The animal treatment epidemic needs to come to a stop due to the many inhumane ways that they are dealt with in farms and slaughterhouses. The initial problem that needs to be dealt with is that the farm animals are placed in extremely small areas with little to no wiggle room. According to myfox8.com, …show more content…
One example of this happens to occur when chicken nuggets are being produced. The baby chicks are sent through a conveyer belt and fall into a meat grinder at the end of it. The worst part is that they are sent into the grinder alive. According to humanesociety.org, chickens and turkeys are “... shackled upside down, paralyzed by electrified water and dragged over mechanical throat-cutting blades ... all while conscious.” It seems so wrong to just kill an animal while it’s conscious. When this happens to a human, it’s called murder, but to a farm animal it’s just normal. There are a variety of other gruesome animal deaths that should not be taking place. According to the Article On Eating Animals by Namit Arora, from the EBSCO database, “A typical slaughterhouse in the United States kills over a thousand Mollys a day—lined up, shot in the head, and often cut open and bled while still conscious, an end no less cruel and full of bellowing” (2). The amount of animals killed is just as terrifying as the fact that some are killed conscious. All of these problems could be dealt with very …show more content…
Instead of having the animals placed so closely together, they should actually be placed on a free range with wide open spaces. This would actually allow some of the animals to at least see sunlight for a day in their lives, instead of being cooped up in the sheds and cages with numerous others of their kind. This would not only help fix the first problem I introduced to you, but also the second. Because the animals wouldn’t be placed so closely together, they would get as many viruses or diseases leading to less use of antibiotics. The farm animals would also have a much lower chance of getting an E. coli infection. A way to fix the third issue would just be to let the chickens grow naturally, instead of genetically mutating them. This would also help prevent the creation of new diseases. The solution to the fourth issue is a no- brainer as well. These animals can just stop being killed in these ways if the corporations didn’t allow it. If they wouldn’t change, then the government could step in to prevent the inhumane slaughter of the farm animals. There is no need for these poor animals to be killed like