...Think of the word slaughterhouse. Sounds exactly like what it is, doesn’t it? Now think of this question: Are slaughterhouses good for our animals to be put down in? While some people think slaughterhouses are good, many people think that they are not good for the animals, because they experience abuse and terror before even dying. There are ways to end this abuse, so why don’t people try to stop this from happening? Is it because they are scared of what the government could do to them? Is it because they are lazy and just want people to donate for nothing? These are many questions that go in some people’s heads when they think of these poor animals being treated like they are nothing. This is the reason why many people raise money to support ending the abuse of animals completely....
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...Animal abuse contributes to poverty, global warming, deforestation, and extinction of species. It affects the whole planet, so why isn’t it talked about as much as it should be? Many people say animal abuse is wrong but not many people are willing to do anything about it. The purpose of animal abuse laws is to prevent people from harming animals for fun or malicious reasons, but why doesn’t it apply to all animals? Factory animals such as cows, pigs and chickens don’t seem to apply to these animal abuse laws; it seems the meat industry has immunity. Even though things like slaughterhouses make it easy for the public to get their meat it contributes to other problems, and there is no such thing as a humane way to kill. Despite the overwhelming...
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...Running Head: IN NEED OF REFORM The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Taylor Purucker Niles High School The Meat Processing Industry: In Need of Reform Every day, animals are sent to slaughterhouses to be processed. Packaged meats are shipped from slaughterhouses to various supermarkets, where consumers purchase it fresh, or frozen. Buyers cannot tell whether or not the meat its safe to eat; they rely on US Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations. However, Sustainable Table says in their forum, Food Safety, “...76 million Americans suffer from food poisoning each year, causing 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths” (2009). Interests raise questions whether or not the USDA regulations are strictly enforced. It seems hard to believe since contaminated meat is the main cause for food-born illnesses. The recurrence of sanitary violations isn't the only dilemma; worker safety and animal health is also a problem. Workers are injured during the rapid process of processing animals; slaughterhouses process more animals an hour because of new technology. Animal's health becomes very poor after beatings and lack of nutrition. Robert Longley expresses in his report, USDA Weak in Enforcing Slaughterhouse Rules: GAO on About.com that, “GAO reported that a study of reports of actual cases of noncompliance at slaughter plants revealed 'several' incidents in which inspectors failed to stop plant operations as required by law”...
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...I'm Not a Vegetarian! But . . . Should the Animals Eaten Have Rights? Oh, no! That steak is from a living animal that breathes the same air as humans. Should this animal have to be killed and butchered to become something humans use for survival? All living beings should have certain rights, correct? The answer is a profound . . . yes, and no. Animals have been eaten for billions of years in order to sustain the human race. That will never change. For example, a hunter will go out on an early Saturday morning just when the sun is rising to look for a deer to kill so the family will have meat to eat. After a period of time, several deer are spotted fifty yards away in a clearing. With careful aim, a single shot is placed directly behind a deer’s shoulder that results in, dinner for the evening. Even though animals must be killed in order to supply the humans with meat . . . they should have certain rights prior to their demise. Animal abuse in slaughterhouses is caused by trying to process more animals than the slaughterhouses can handle in order to maximize profits, along with using outdated processing methods with under maintained equipment; however, this problem can be solved by incorporating well maintained up-to-date processing equipment and better internal quality controls. Looking back, as reported by Farm Forward, n.d.: In the last 70 years—a tiny blip in the history of farming—cruel, unsustainable factory farms have grown to the point where they produce...
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...Animal Cruelty It’s dark, quiet, and you’re all by yourself. You whine and yell for help but nobody seems to hear you. The people you thought were your family abandoned you, left you all alone in a small confined cage. There is no place to use the bathroom, other than where you stand. The awful stench of your faeces grows worse and worse each second. The only food they left you with, you ate in the first day. Now the only thing keeping you alive is your desperation to eat and drink your own waste and the will to survive. You are a dog left to die by its owners, with the thought that you are lower than humans and have no real importance or worth. I have always been an animal lover and it has always disgusted me to see an animal being mistreated. Even when I am watching a movie and an animal gets hurt I always cringe with sadness. I remember I had these neighbors; we were good friends with them. They always wanted to have a dog but either they never had the money to take care of a pet or they just did not know how. That never stopped them from constantly having a dog. I remember two specific dogs they had, one was a mixed bulldog, Daisy, and the other was a Jack Russell Terrier, Jack. Daisy was such a beautiful sweet dog, but the way she was treated was poor. If they did not have any dog food they would feed her cereal and milk. They also considered spraying her with a hose while she ran around in the backyard a bath. The worst thing that happened to her was that one day...
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...The commoditization of non-human animals into property has permitted people to commit acts of abuse against non-human animals in both legal and illegal forms. The largest amount of non-human animal violence and abuse occurs behind closed doors within institutionally owned multi-billion dollar food industry, and science sector corporations. The mass scale of violence and poor treatment to non-human animals must be investigated to discover its impact on humans in society. To begin the research, it is essential to include the practices and current views on non-human animals in our society to help portray the reason behind a human violent nature. We examine these practices and views by criticizing the federal law. This research will then further...
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...Can You Really Have It Your Way? When you’ve had a stressful day at the office, got caught in rush hour traffic, the kids practice runs over, you forgot to lay something out for dinner or you just don’t have the ambition to cook there’s always a variety of options to quickly resolve your trouble. Fast food restaurants have been rapidly growing since the 1900’s and are now a food source we highly depend on as a society. It wasn’t long ago that the standard was for a family to sit down to a home cooked meal. This standard has severally changed over the years. While having the option to pick up dinner on the way home or have it delivered to our door is convenient, at what point do we stop to consider the dangers of consuming a heart-attack in a sack? What once was considered a treat has now become the norm carrying more than just health concerns. Fast food restaurants have become very beneficial over the years by offering us convenience, agricultural stimulus, and slowing increasing their nutritional values, it’s time to consider other ways they effect our society. Eric Schlosser describes fast food best in his book Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal when he says “It has become a social custom as American as a small, rectangular, hand-held, frozen, and reheated apple pie” (Eric Schlosser, 2002). Fast food has become more then just convenient for us, it has become a dependent. We no longer use fast food as an alternative when time is cut short but rather...
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...Determination of Animal Abuse Jennifer Stafford Determination of Animal Abuse People and animals have been around since the beginning of time. In early days, animals were killed and hunted for survival. However, the relationship between people and animals has changed somewhat since then. Today, the vast majority of people do not need to kill and hunt animals in order to survive. In this paper, I will talk about how some people think that animal-factory farms, family farms and hunting is considered animal abuse. I will then later explain that neither of these is considered animal abuse. Therefore, the question is, how does one determine what actually animal abuse is? There is a massive debate about this question and there is no right answer. Everyone sees things from the perspective of their own interests and concerns. Animal abuse is classified as inflicting physical agony, anguish or demise upon an animal contingent upon one’s belief. First, some people believe that killing and hunting animals for any reason is classified as animal abuse. The first example some may classify as animal abuse is animal-factory farms. Animal-factory “farms are usually large industrial facilities where livestock are crowded together” (USA Today, 2012). The small animals, like chickens, are put into cages. One cage can hold many animals. These cages are packed so full with the small animals that the animals cannot move freely. They do not get to see sunlight, and it can be hard to breathe...
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...Once they come out of the tanks, their bones are disfigured and broken and many of them lose body parts due to their aggressive struggling (2Bulter 2). Another unpleasant physical treatment involves the shackles in the slaughterhouses. At a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, an employee admitted that when chickens are too big are are not hung properly from their legs, instead they are hung by their necks (2PETA 1). Also, the conveyor belts in slaughterhouses are considered an unpleasant physical treatment. PETA’s investigator found that at the end of the conveyor belt in a Georgia slaughterhouse, which transports the birds to be hung, snagged many chickens heads and legs that ended up killing the birds (3PETA 1). Some of the inhumane abusive physical punishments include beating and stabbing the chickens, breaking the chickens bones, and blowing them up. The PETA investigator documented that an employee of the Tennessee slaughterhouse admitted that “...he broke a chicken's back by beating the bird against a rail, [and] a back-up killer stabbed birds in the neck area with knives...” (4PETA 1). This is an...
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...environmental consequences of our diets. Why should we? Everyone eats animal products— this is the way things are and always have been and always will be. Social psychologist Melanie Joy perhaps says it best: “Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy, yet most of us don’t spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support...
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...dominant fast food and fast food restaurants have become in our everyday lives and how adverse the fast food companies have been to our health, to workers, and to animals. Fast food companies have become so focused on how much money they are acquiring for their "food", that they don't care how unbelievably immoral they have been treating their workers in the meat packing industry. "Meatpacking is now the most dangerous job in the United States... Every year more than one-quarter of the meatpacking workers in this country -- roughly forty thousand men and women -- suffer an injury or a work-related illness that requires medical attention beyond first aid (Schlosser, 172)." Meatpacking workers are in danger of severe and sometimes fatal wounds almost every second. "Many slaughterhouse workers make a knife cut every two or three seconds, which adds up to about 10,000 cuts during an eight-hour shift (Schlosser, 173)." In other words, because of how close in proximity these workers are, side by side, they do not only need to worry about life-threatening disease, they need to pray that they do not get sliced or stabbed during the fifty-six hours a week they are in the slaughterhouse. Tightly jammed meatpacking workers with extra sharp long blades cutting every two to three seconds is what someone would call human abuse. Fast food is like a drug, once anyone eats it, they are instantly addicted to the taste and artificial flavors. For instance, without the different dyes, flavors...
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...Zaireen Rahaman Public Speaking: Persuasive Speech Who in here is a vegetarian? For those who did not put their hands up might want to change their minds in the end on how they feel about eating meat or wearing products made from or tested on animals. Most of us grew up consuming meat, wearing clothing made from animals, and has seen animals at zoos or circuses. Have you ever considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved? Animals raised on modern factory farms and killed in slaughtered houses endure unimaginable suffering. I hope once you listen to what I have to say about the routine cruelty involved in raising, transporting, and killing animal for food you’ll join the millions of people to leave meat of their plate and prohibit the cruelty of animals. If slaughter houses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian. In modern factory farms, animals are jam-packed by the thousands into grimy, enclosed sheds and restricted to wire cages, dirt lots, and other brutal confinement systems. These animals would never have the opportunity to raise their families, or do anything that is of their natural instincts. The majority would not even feel the sun’s rays or breathe fresh air until they are hoarded away on to trucks; headed for slaughtering. ‘Old Mc Donald had a farm’ is not as it once was. If slaughter houses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian. Chickens have the ability to reason in some instances that are greater than dogs and children yet they are...
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...his article presents the review of James Rachels on the basic argument for vegetarianism by Peter Singer. The author develops the Singer’s idea that causing pain is not justified unless there is a sufficiently good reason for it (Rachels 72). Such approach is applicable to vegetarianism and explains why killing animals cannot be justified. Rachel accepts the essence of this idea and states that people should refuse to be the consumers of meat produced on farms and slaughterhouses. The author supports his stance with the point that eating meat for pleasure is not a convincing argument against vegetarianism. Neither is the need to provide the body with certain nutrients, which can be easily substituted with vegetable food. On the other hand,...
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...Each day a multitudinous of people unknowingly eat meat that is raised abhorrently on a factory farm. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.), a factory farm is a large industrial operation in which over 99% of all livestock are raised. Factory farms are meant to maximize the amount of meat for the space, so the different animals are often crammed into extremely tight quarters. Livestock raised this way often lay in their own sewage and rotting carcasses of others animals that could no longer survive these conditions. Water surveys taken from around factory farming operations consistently show high levels of bacteria in surrounding groundwater. The animals raised in this manner, are often abused...
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...There are lots of defects in laws for Animals in present system and many ambiguities are in execution of new policies. But we need to make some suggestions for better protection of wildlife and to control crimes against Animals in our surroundings for better existence of their on the earth. Some planned and balanced methods are required to protect the rights of Animals in India. As Henry Ford said “don't find fault, find a remedy,” in the same way we have to find remedy not the fault. There are many laws for the protection of animals in India: The main laws are, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, and the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and rules framed under these Acts. Few peoples know the law; therefore in the face of such ignorance...
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