Argumentative Essay: The Dangers Of Factory Farming

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 often hung upside down, kicking and struggling, while a slaughterhouse worker makes another attempt to render them unconscious. Eventually the animals will be ‘stuck’ in the throat with a knife, and blood will gush from their bodies whether or not they are conscious” (factoryfarming.com). An animal has an intrinsic value, and to dismiss that, is morally wrong. How do we kill others that value their life? People may say it’s the cow’s
Pigs unlike cows and chickens are highly intelligent animals. If you kill one pig in front of the others, they know what is occurring and they go crazy with fear knowing that they are next. As babies, they are exposed to painful disfigurements without any anesthesia or pain relievers. Their tail is cut off to decrease tail biting and is confined to overcrowded pens with bars and concrete floors where they live until they reach a specific slaughter weight. While they linger in these overcrowded environments, they are also exposed to extreme crowded conditions during transportation. One pig expert wrote, “death losses during transport are high, amounting to more than eight million per year. It is still cheaper so it becomes a moral issue. Is it right to overload and save $.25 per head while the overwhelming contributes to 80,000 death per year?” (factoryfarming.com). Sadly, this treatment is characteristic of factory farming, which puts profits before of animal