Factory Farming Persuasive Essay

Author Jonathan Safran Foer once said, “Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, etc. are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.” ‘Factory Farming’ means a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions. Prohibition of factory farms should be enforced in the United States. On today’s large corporation farms, animals such as cattle, pigs, and poultry are crammed into narrow, windowless sheds, wire cages, metal crates by hundreds and thousands catching any disease possible, and the foods they are given are
Now, picture animals crammed into a hideous barn, with no windows for air, barely able to move an inch because of how many animals are also in the space, animals with diseases, and are unable to reproduce. Factory farming needs to be stopped. Putting harmless and innocent animals into small places, giving them food full of harmful chemicals and proteins, keeping them from being able to live the natural life that they are accustomed to and from being able to reproduce is not acceptable. Your typical dairy cow lives up to their third lactation before being killed in a factory farm, a normal and natural dairy cows live for 20 years. Do you feel comfortable knowing how the food you put into your body is being treated this way? Animals kept in tight spaces together causes the amount of waste to be large and the land surrounding it cannot handle it. With this, environmental hazards such as pollution in water, air, and land have become more common. Sickness in humans living close to factory farms have become more common such as respiratory problems, skin infections, and nausea. Factory farms, they are inhumane, they are in an ungodly manner, they are not right, they cause animals unnecessary harm, they cause animals to live an unnatural lifestyle. In
Factory farms need to prohibit the amount of steroids and pesticides that are in the animals food and water. Factory farms need to take the animals out of the cages and let them roam free and let them be able to reproduce. Let the animals be natural and humane. Prohibiting steroids and pesticides in food and water creates a more healthy environment for the animals and humans as well. Taking the animals out of the cages and letting them roam free and letting them be able to reproduce creates a larger profit for the large