Factory Farm Abuse
If slaughterhouses were made of glass, everyone would be vegetarian. How is factory farming harmful to humans, animals, and the environment alike? Although factory farming creates an abundant amount of cheaper food, factory farming is an unhealthy agricultural practice to animals, humans, and the environment because factory farms abuse their animals, they are very toxic to humans, and factory farms also pollute the Earth.
Factory farms are a modern agricultural practice that mass produce animals to meet the food consumption of humans. A factory farm houses large numbers of animals to be raised for food in a confined space of farms to minimize operation cost, and the mass production drives down the food prices as they could produce excess amount …show more content…
Cows and pigs are abused in a similar way. They both are kept in small cages where they can not move.Because they are in such close quarters their tails are cut to a shorter length. When they have children, the young are taken off of them in fear of the mother squishing them. When they are moved to the slaughterhouse, they are given antibiotics to knock them out. Usually this does not work and they are still conscious when they are put into a machine that turns them upside down so all the blood rushes to their head. Their throats are then manually slit and the animal bleeds out. This is just another example of the horrific ways factory farms inhumanely execute their …show more content…
Factory farming is terrible for the environment because it is one of the main causes of greenhouse gas emission. Using fossil fuels on factory farms to grow feed and to mass produce animals for food emits 90 million tons of carbon dioxide worldwide every year. “Manure can also contain traces of salt and heavy metals, which can end up in bodies of water and accumulate in the sediment, concentrating as they move up the food chain.” says DoSomething.org . When manure is reapplied to farmland it leaves dangerous levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water supply. Too much nitrogen in the water will absorb the oxygen in the water and will kill off the aquatic
Factory farms are a modern agricultural practice that mass produce animals to meet the food consumption of humans. A factory farm houses large numbers of animals to be raised for food in a confined space of farms to minimize operation cost, and the mass production drives down the food prices as they could produce excess amount …show more content…
Cows and pigs are abused in a similar way. They both are kept in small cages where they can not move.Because they are in such close quarters their tails are cut to a shorter length. When they have children, the young are taken off of them in fear of the mother squishing them. When they are moved to the slaughterhouse, they are given antibiotics to knock them out. Usually this does not work and they are still conscious when they are put into a machine that turns them upside down so all the blood rushes to their head. Their throats are then manually slit and the animal bleeds out. This is just another example of the horrific ways factory farms inhumanely execute their …show more content…
Factory farming is terrible for the environment because it is one of the main causes of greenhouse gas emission. Using fossil fuels on factory farms to grow feed and to mass produce animals for food emits 90 million tons of carbon dioxide worldwide every year. “Manure can also contain traces of salt and heavy metals, which can end up in bodies of water and accumulate in the sediment, concentrating as they move up the food chain.” says DoSomething.org . When manure is reapplied to farmland it leaves dangerous levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water supply. Too much nitrogen in the water will absorb the oxygen in the water and will kill off the aquatic