10- Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock A stable source of food like livestock can have a lot of negative consequences. Although food production spread at unequal rates, many people gained access to it right away. Naturally, it seemed like a good thing because the population size was increasing while the supply of food was slowly getting lower. This allowed people to gain access to a variety of foods from plant and animal domestication. However, what those people didn’t know was that human diseases were linked to animal origins.…
As described in The Jungle, the meatpacking industry was a gritty, dark, and exhausting environment. The employees were pushed to work long hours doing exhausting work on "killing beds", which was where cows were slaughtered. The men working would work at such a fast pace that they seemed to forget that there was "flesh and blood in them", referring to the cows. "If any man could not keep up with the pace, there were hundreds outside waiting to try". This quote from the book shows how desperate people were to work, and how exhausting the work really is. The meat packing industry was gory and unsanitary as well, with cows that were hurt, and some of them "with their guts out". Some cows being brought in were even dead, yet they were still sent…
Imagine a place where there is no FDA and no control on what goes into food. A place where people think they are eating sausage but, in actuality, they are eating feces! This “place” was America in 1906 and the years before. For years and years, ordinary citizens had no idea of the horrors that happened behind the scenes of the meatpacking industry. That was until “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. This book unmasked the monstrosity that was the meatpacking industry and impacted audiences like no other book has. Sinclair used graphic depictions such as dead rats being put in the food and spoiled meat still being used to impact the audience and achieve his purpose.…
When the narrator of the short story describes his ideal slaughterhouse, it is much different to a normal one. He would make his with natural stone, arches, an open roof, and a wide pasture for the cows to eat. He thinks that this would be a better way to kill the animals because it gives them a better living condition. This is just his brains way of physic doubling. No matter how the slaughterhouse is built, the cow still ends up dead. So does it even matter how well they are treated before they die?…
The topic of horse slaughter doesn’t usually come up very often in everyday conversation. Horse slaughter is more of an implicit subject, which your everyday person doesn’t know much about. Because it is highly controversial, it has gone through the cycle of being banded and then reinstated twice in the last 5 years. With being involved in the horse industry my entire life, I have witnessed the effects first hand. Some people see it as killing pets, animal cruelty, and morally wrong. However, I see it as a source of income, a way to stop the starvation and abuse of horses, an export industry for the United States, as well as a quality meal for in times of despair.…
Finally, Pollan argues that the harsh treatment of animals on industrial farms has risen due to the lack of human connection with the slaughtering of animals. The author explains, "The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there’s no reality check, either on the sentiment or the brutality” (Pollan 363). This suggests when animals are out of sight, the human concern about the killing of those animals lessens.…
9. Identify the ways Napoleon tries to solidify his leadership position on the farm. How does the process of decision-making on the farm change under Napoleon’s leadership?…
“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”, therefore, according to Foer, going with the norms and continuing to buy groceries and meat products from these factory farms is basically making a decision to support them without actually thinking that it is the right thing to do. We are responsible for not supporting humane factories and being willing to give up meat as well as factory farmed products. “Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone…
Lastly, slaughterhouses are morally wrong because people do not take into account the animals emotions or capacity to feel pain. In a deontological view, we as humans should have an obligation to treat these animals with respect, as they are living breathing beings. One’s consciousness should be filled with guilt and shame while hurting or killing the animals at the slaughterhouse. Of course, the shame and guilt create a conflict of interest to the workers because, although some of them may feel these emotions, the workers still allow themselves to act against them. Wether it be for the money, work, or even human nature, workers still end the lives of countless beings.…
Rations are reduced again, and the animals are not allowed lanterns in their stalls anymore in order to save oil, except for the pigs and dogs. Also, 31 piglets are born (Napoleon’s). He decides to build the schoolhouse to educate them ( since only the pigs seem to have privileges in the farm) and discourage them from interacting with the other animals.…
This news report out of Miami-Dade Florida, is full of objective statements and opinions from a variety of people, including workers of this slaughterhouse. Outsiders have filed numerous complaints at not only this slaughterhouse but many across…
This is in contrast to how a majority of cattle are raised today. They stand in paddocks their whole life where they hardly have the ability to move, and they are fed things that cows aren 't designed to eat corn, wheat, chicken parts, and even the leftovers of already slaughtered cattle. Then they are lead up a gangway, into a building where they are first shocked, then hung up by their hooves and have their necks slit, one after another. It harkens back to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. After one hundred years, the conditions at the meat packing plants have not improved much. It is still the most dangerous job in America. Almost everyone who works there are injured at one point, be it from mechanical smashers or knives that had come too close to their arm. Hundreds of thousands of cattle are slaughtered every day, and that is to keep up with the demand from places like McDonald 's, Burger King, and Wendy 's.…
Today I talk about the Animal Farm chapter5. In chapter5 have twist story. The opposite reasoning makes Snowball and Napoleon are discord. Snowball is talk about own opinion good at the meetings. However, Napoleon works quietly behind the Snowball. Snowball is keep proposing new plans for improve of the farm, but Napoleon have opposite opinion about Snowball opinion. Snowball has plan is for the windmill. Napoleon is prepare resist idea about Snowball idea, and makes his opposite opinion. Snowball continues to work on his plans, and spends hours every day in working, drawing windmill’s wooden floor. All of the animals watch Snowball plans and they talk about how do we are make more perfectly. On the other hand Napoleon holds back, and when he does come to the plans meeting, he disturbance on meeting.…
As HSUS investigations into slaughterhouses and cattle auctions have revealed, animal abuse abounds in the factory farm industry. Despite increased feed prices, we found no indication in the news media that the number of livestock neglect cases is increasing, other than a few shocking, high-profile cases. This may, however, simply be a reflection of the weak protections afforded to livestock under state animal cruelty…
According to the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), a poll was recently taken that expressed that 94% of Americans think “animals raised for food deserve to live free from abuse and cruelty.” Yet the majority of the nearly 10 billion farm animals raised each year in the U.S. suffer in conditions that would be a horrifying sight to see. Most consumed meat, milk and eggs come from industrial farms where efficiency trumps welfare—and animals are paying the price.…