The Horror of Factory Farming While driving past factory farms‚ anyone would assume that animals live a satisfying life style. At first sight‚ the animals look very robust and one would think that they have a healthy diet. Appearances can always be deceiving. What one observes while driving past these farms is not what factory farms actually are. Behind closed doors‚ many things go on that society would never expect. Every year‚ animals on factory farms encounter unimaginable suffering and go
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The Pain of Factory Farming Even though 94% of Americans say that animals used in food production for humans deserve to live free from abuse and cruelty‚ 10 billion farm animals are in conditions that are lower than low‚ often leading to a painful death (Farm Animal). Animal rights refers to the philosophy that animals as a whole should maintain the right to live a life without human exploitation‚ suffering and hurting‚ and dying young. The chicken production system seems good when all people see
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No one likes to suffer. None of us like to feel pain‚ but factory farmed animals such as cows‚ pigs‚ and chickens experience great pain in their short-lived lives. The website factoryfarming.com‚ states‚ “a standard beef slaughter house kills 250 cattle every hour.” The method used is “stunning” this is done by using a catapult gun and giving the cows a mechanical blow to the head. It is to render them unconscious‚ but this procedure is terribly imprecise: “as a result‚ conscious animals are
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agriculture were portrayed as beneficial. Two main critiques that will flow throughout is the overall cost-benefit analysis was not taken into account and the level of implementation of the positive aspects. One area of modern farming promoted by the affirmative is factory farming. The intention of this method is the increase output of livestock through concentrating the area used and more closely watching over the animals. However‚ studies of the implementation of this highlights severe ethical‚ humanitarian
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If the remaining 99% of the animals raised in factory farms in the United States were instead raised in a free range system the increase in resource demands would be incredible. For example‚ cows in todays factory system are raised on a supplemented diet of corn and therefore require no pasture land. If instead‚ all of the 30.2 million cows killed annually were raised on a natural diet of grass it would take over 60 million acres of pasture to accommodate the animals. That is a area of land roughly
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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
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Ruby Dominguez Professor J. Williams English 100 11 July 2014 Industrial Salmon Farming Fish farming‚ also known as Aquaculture‚ is an industry that uses sea life for commercial purposes. One of the most common fish species that are farmed worldwide is salmon. Most of the salmon Americans consume are farmed in British Columbia and grow in open net cages placed directly in the ocean; creating environmental threats in all areas it takes place. The problem with open net cages that are placed directly
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Lastly‚ there is disease which is the most important effect from factory farming it can have a big impact on the consumers and the animal. One of the many diseases is mad cow diseases it is also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is said to be caused by feeding dead cows to other cows; the cow becomes infected and so can humans through the consumption of diseased meat (O’Brien 30). There is something that has to change they could either stop feeding dead cows to cows which they definitely
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American Dream‚ The Cheesecake Factory is everything you would expect a chain restaurant to not be. The Cheesecake Factory got their famous cheesecake recipes from a woman named Evelyn Overton. Overton decided to open up a small cheesecake shop in Detroit‚ Michigan in the 1950’s. About 20 years later‚ Overton’s son‚ David‚ opened a small cafe to feature his mother’s famous cheesecakes on the menu. Another 20 years later‚ David Overton opened the first Cheesecake Factory restaurant and expanded his initial
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In February 1834 factory owners cut the mill workers wage by 15 percent. A group of these workers who were mostly women took the street in protest for four days. They realized that the owners could replace them so they when back to work. Of course everyone learned their lessons1. Two years later 1836 another group of rebels took the street in protest. This last group lasted several months. The leaders of the group were known as the factory girls. The purpose of the girls was to stop a wage reduction
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