A feedlot is a place horses are usually taken to be fattened up before they are sent to slaughter. In the beginning Gilly’s Bay Boy, also known as Scamper, was known to buck when he was asked to canter. However, Charmayne never let his obstinance get in the way of her goals.…
According to Merriam-Webster, a feedlot is defined as a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market. Feedlots have vastly taken over America in the past few years. “Almost all beef found in grocery stores come from cattle fattened up in large grain feeding operations” (Robbins video). John Robbins describes these feedlots in the film clip Diet for a New America (meat consumption). The point of this essay is to explore the negative and positive arguments made by John Robbins in the film clip Diet for a New America (meat consumption). Throughout the video it describes how bad feedlots are. They are unsanitary, overcrowded, and inhumane. They are also contaminating the nearby water sources. Manure is going into the ground contaminating the water in ways that can be destructive. Fertilizer is also getting into the water as well.…
Animal Welfare: It reduces the neglect of elderly horses from their owners who don’t want to take care of them…
According to the article “Meat and Milk Factories” by Peter Singer and Jim Mason, for years, pig production had been a big part of the slaughterhouses, but as time went on, the…
Throughout history, human beings have grouped themselves together in communities. The concept of communities offered two major benefits; first, defense against enemies that might threaten the community. And second, the ability to sustain a constant food source to subsist on year-round. The need for a constant food supply became a major factor in early farming practices (Pollan, 2006) through animal husbandry. The waste from the livestock was used as fertilizer for the other crops that were raised on the farm. These crops were utilized to feed the farmers, sell at market, as well as feed the livestock through the next winter. In this manner, there is a continuous lifecycle on the homestead. The overall mindset is different, first, I will feed my family, second try to make a profit, and third, I will try to keep livestock for the next year in order to grow my farm. When the production of beef became more about profit the respect and love for the land fell catastrophically to the wayside. Modern feedlot operations are creating environmental problems that will affect our country in the future, as well as health issues for consumers, which would to corrected by implementing strong regulations in the handling of feedlot waste and a mandated correction in the diet of the cattle.…
Pig clubs and Small gardens or allotments sprung up throughout the country to support themselves. To show that our farmers need better time and space management to improve their growth rate and spending. Small farms are capable of getting far more productive with each passing season, because they can take advantage of en information, new science, new technologies.…
Environmental safety is the most important issue to be considered in this modern life. Joseph Pace in this article talks about how Animal-based agriculture is one of the most environmentally destructive industries on the face of the earth.Pace also talks about how the lands would be if people shifted away from meat.He…
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) is facilities designed to raise animals such as swine, until they are the right size to be slaughtered. There are roughly 257,000 CAFO’s in the U.S. and each one slaughters approximately 27million hogs in a year. Hogs live by the thousands in warehouse like barns, in rows of pens. Workers put so many hogs in one pen that they trample each other to death. In the barns there is no sunlight, fresh air, straw, or earth for the pigs. Temperatures in the warehouses can reach up to ninety degrees and the air is polluted so much that it can become lethal to the pigs. These things are not the only inhumane things happening at CAFO’s.…
This acquisition is false, the factory farmers do not get paid unless they are treating the animals with care. One of the reasons why someone pursues farming is because they have the desire to be with animals. According to David Leyonhjelm, the factory farms are more humane than the small scale farms. If the animals were not being treated with the proper care, then the animals would drop like flies. The livestock in the factory farms is protected from wind, snow, rain, heat and cold, and safe from the wild animals. Placing the animals in the factory farms allows the breeding process to be less stressful and the farmers will be able to take care and protect the young animals. While they are being protected in the warehouses, the animals are given a constant balanced diet and they are provided with plenty of fresh water. Factory farms are there to protect the livestock and still treat them with care while providing quality meat and dairy for the consumers. The last thing the factories want to do is cause the livestock discomfort, stress, and diseases. The factory farms are equipped with technology and farmers that can do everything they can to ensure they lead a stress and disease-free…
Singer’s article criticizes factory farms for industrializing their farming practices and sacrificing good animal husbandry practices for increases in production. Singer indicates the ridiculous amount of animals affected by factory farm mistreatment by stating “[t]he use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment” (“Down on” 19). Singer evaluates the reasoning behind factory farmer’s unethical practices, and concludes that “farming is competitive and the methods adopted are those that cut costs and increase production” (“Down on” 20). By cutting costs and increasing production rates factory farming industry workers accumulate more wealth, and consumers are able consume more meat then physically necessary. One can evaluate this luxury the “Principle of Disproportionality” which states that “[a]ctions that meet nonbasic or luxury needs of humans are prohibited when they aggress against the basic needs of animals” (Sterba…
4-H helps to learn how to raise food in a safe harmless manner to the animals. 4-H leaders are constantly telling kids to keep animals and their pens clean, if the animal looks sick call the vet, and if people shouldn’t eat from or drink from the water or food bowls then it isn't clean enough or if someone wouldn’t lay in the pen then the animal should not lay in the pen. The animal part of fair is based on learning to raise food for families and keeping animals healthy and calm. If anyone catches anyone being harmful to the animals you will be removed from fair and could potentially be kicked out for good if what was being done was bad enough. Raising versus buying meat in store is a big difference. For one reason knowing where the meat came from and what is in the meat is safer and healthier knowing they are raised right and there is nothing bad in meat. Also, buying meat is expensive and, although it seems like raising animals is expensive too, raising is a lot cheaper and provides more meat. “My life's philosophy is that people are always going to need food, and farming is the way to feed the world," he said. "So the industry will always need someone to educate the public about what farmers provide and the importance of nutrition in a healthy lifestyle" (Curry, Vanessa 16). There are many good things about raising animals, if not having any land is a problem then finding a local farmer and buying meat from them would work or even rent some land for a few animals could help in this…
Some things they do to the animals are, genetically altering them so that they grow faster or so that they produce products faster such as milk or eggs. Sometimes after they kill and animal they will feed that animal to another animal so that, that animal gets more fat for reproducing. Factory…
People have to water the animal clean the stall give it space to roam and people have to feed it. Over one point three billion tons of are consumed by farm animals(walsh). In poverty stricken areas cows eat up to ten times the feed of richer areas(walsh) which takes even more land. Two thirds of all farmland is being used to feed livestock(brooks). Which to give people an idea is forty percent of the world’s land surface(walsh). Not to mention the the deforestation that goes on from the country the food is from(brooks). Not to mention that meat production is projected to double by two thousand and twenty(brooks). Live stock is estimated to use thirty percent of land space(matthews). Almost thirty three percent of arable land is used for livestock feed(matthews). On top of that twenty percent of pastures are considered lessened because of overgrazing(matthews). Animal agriculture also creates ocean dead zones(brooks). Animal agriculture overall is a bad thing because of land useage. Plus there are not enough people with animal agriculture degrees to put in good environmental legislature(grandin). In animal agriculture the government does very little practical research(grandin). So even though it’s estimated that eighty percent of tax revenue comes from exported grain(grandin) which is one of the main ingredients in animal feed. So even though that it provides that much tax revenue. It is not worth it. Our…
Our animal industry these days is doing more for us than many people realize. Our 4-H and FFA organizations are allowing our country's youth to own their own animals and the chance to earn money toward college. As a participant in such fairs the youth have the chance to learn responsibility in taking care of a livestock animal and the admiralty in knowing that they raised something to it's full potential. The money that the participants receive most of it is put toward their college funds.…
Society takes animal agriculture as educational opportunity to learn more about the animals we eat and the process in…