Animal Cruelty and Public Health Hazards in the Factory Farming Industry Richard Baumann DeVry University Animal Cruelty and Public Health Hazards in the Factory Farming Industry Over the last few decades farming animals for food has grown and evolved into a highly efficient‚ streamlined industry known as factory farming. Factory farms are owned and operated by big corporations‚ and despite the fact they make up only a small percentage of farms in the United States‚ they are responsible
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COMM 100 December 2012 Factory Farming Factory Farming began in the 1920’s. It began because demand for meat‚ milk‚ eggs and other animal products increased. The more factory farmers produced‚ the more money they made‚ which is the essence of the process. They developed techniques to the point where animals didn’t need to be raised outside‚ which saved cost by keeping them in smaller places. Because conditions were filthy‚ disease began to spread among animals. This led to large amounts of
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of the meat industry‚ they are not immune from the effects this industry has. The inhumane treatment of animals‚ dangerous working condition for workers‚ pollution of the environment and health scares of consumers all happen behind the scenes at factory farms. Public attention to the meat industry started in 1906‚ when Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle was published. The Jungle was a tell-all novel revealing the horrors of the meat industry. People were outraged at the truth behind their food
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Would you allow factory farm animals to suffer? No‚ because animals have the right to live‚ just because they provide food for us doesn’t mean we have to kill them. Factory farms are harmful for our health because it pollutes the air and puts hormones and antibiotics in our body. Perhaps the most important reason factory farms are harmful for our health is that it pollutes the air. Air pollution is caused when huge amounts of stored manure are sprayed onto fields. The USDA says that more than 335
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Factory farming. Something that is ‘out of sight’ and thus ‘out of mind’ for the majority of the Australian populace. An unnecessary‚ atrocious treatment of animals. Factory farms are places where animals are reared in the shortest and quickest way possible‚ before being slaughtered. These farms began with the discovery of vitamins A and D‚ which could then be added to animal’s foods‚ meaning they had no need to take in sunlight. The discovery of antibiotics then allowed animals to be kept in
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n today’s growing economy family farms are decreasing and factory farms are increasing. America was built upon family farms. Without family farms‚ American’s wouldn’t know the values of Hard work‚ family traditions‚respect‚morals ‚ and the men who built america. Factory farms are slowly taking control of everything‚ they control their own prices because they are involved in buying the sows‚ raising the pigs‚ and processing the meat. Factory farms are bad for family farms because they take all the
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Factory Farming: Feast or Famine J.R. Phillips DeVry University 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
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Factory Farmville isn’t a game. How would you feel being trapped in a cage? Not being able to move because of such a large crowd in such a confined space? How would you feel being surrounded by disease‚ illness and constant abuse? To animals‚ this is known as a factory farm. Factory farming is where animals are packed as closely together as possible‚ most never see or feel sunlight‚ able to get fresh air or even able to turn around. These terrible conditions have serious effects on the animals physically
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the beings which grow in these conditions. It is the meat you eat. Modern day factory farms not only mistreat these animals but they also produce environmental dangers and detrimental diseases which can affect everyone regardless of whether or not you are consuming these products. My name is Darcie Hucks and I am here to speak on behalf of the billions of animals‚ who are tortured and killed each year due to factory farming.
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Peter Singer’s “Down on the Factory Farm” and E.B. White’s “Death of a Pig” illustrate practices of raising animals for human consumption. The care and environment provided for the animals by both White and the factory farmer’s that Singer discusses can be labelled as ‘animal husbandry’. White and the factory farm worker’s animal husbandry methods can be deemed as ethical‚ or unethical. Bernard E. Rollin defines good animal husbandry as “keeping the animals under conditions to which their natures
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