...Factory Farm Cruelty NAME School Factory Farm Cruelty Farming started countless years ago, with families raising their own meat and produce. Farmer’s children would support the farm by feeding animals, cleaning stalls, taking care of the animals as much as they could, with dreams of hopefully getting the farm when the time was right. These were the good days, when eating was great because all of our meals mainly came from what we had grown. Meat, vegetables, and dairy products all tasted better because the animals or earth the food came from was completely “happy” and chemical free. Happy means that the animals were well taken care of with plenty of time in the pasture to stretch their legs and frolic around; plants weren’t doused with pesticides and growth hormones. Water from the stream was good enough to drink straight out of the stream, and the air was fresh to breathe. As time went on humans started to evolve around the world, we became smarter, greedier, and by human nature we produced more humans, tenfold. With the ever-growing population small farms contracted, the days of growing your own, for your own, became obsolete. People with bigger farms were forced to risk everything in order to provide enough of a certain type of product to support their town, state, or more. According to Midkiff (2005), farmers would have “to take out loans” in order to supply everything that was needed to produce as much product as possible. “If farmers couldn’t pay their loans because...
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...Introduction Every day, despite their screams of terror and cries for help thousands of animals are murdered for the sake of human nourishment. It has been estimated that in 2002 factory farms made up 99% of all animals raised and slaughtered in the United States (Farm Forward, 2004). Today those numbers only continue to grow both in USA and Canada. Despite the accounts of violence from meat workers and the opinion of the public, factory farms are an industry that continues to grow and flourish today. Ultimately showing that human consumption of meat is not only unnecessary it is cruel as well. Aggressive Meatworkers The primary way that North Americans get meat into our grocery stores and eventfully onto their tables is through the unfortunate invention of factory farms. Despite the unsanitary and inhumane conditions that the animals in these factories must endure the worst cruelties from the employees themselves. A 2013...
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...The Pain Behind the Food We Eat Food is a very important part for all things to survive. Since it is so important, the culture surrounding our food is quite diverse and has grown through the ages. In the past, people would usually make their own food through farms or other means. However, today the source of our food mainly comes from grocery stores or we just go out to eat either at a sit down or fast food restaurant. Because of the means we go about getting our food, the source of where the restaurants or grocery stores get their food is unknown to us. Just the other day I went to a sit down restaurant and ordered chicken wings. Obviously there are laws protecting people from getting tainted food, but the source of this food was unknown to me and could of had something wrong with it. Luckily I am fine and I survived that meal, but the process of how that food got to my plate and how that animal was treated before it was slaughtered to become my food was unknown to me. Even though farm animals such as chickens, pigs, and cows are most likely going to be killed for food purposes, they are living things and do deserve to live a decent life before they become our food. The opposition might argue that there are too many people in this world who eat meat, so these means are necessary to feed all the people. But if the meat eating society were to look closely at how these animals were treated before becoming our food in most cases they would not see a very good life...
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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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...Life’s Flawless Fallacies In today’s society, many of us do not always use our common sense, let alone our imagination in day to day situations. Some people make senseless decisions based off of their own experiences, thoughts, or pride. When you are unsuccessful in realizing the possible dangers and outcomes of certain situations, you could end up in big trouble. In the following paragraphs you will read about a story written in 1910 and how it compares to today’s animal cruelty in the food production industry. Jack London wrote a short story about pure foolishness and the consequences of failing to snap to reality. The story is called “To Build a Fire”. It is about a nameless man who decides to travel in the subzero climate of the Yukon Trail, which is between Alaska and Canada. He also brings along his wolf dog as his only companion, although they are far from intimate and loving towards each other. As he is traveling along throughout the story, he continues to receive signs that he shouldn’t be out there. For example, right from the start he “…spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled” (London 107). For any rational person, that would send a flag right up and they’d turn back to civilization until weather permitted them to continue. But not for this man, he knew it was cold and even kept track of the temperature in his head as he walked on. Not only did he ignore his own frostbite, but he also ignored the advice of an old...
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...Farm Factories “It takes 5,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat while growing one pound of wheat takes only 25 gallons”(Go Veg, Wasted Resource). The number of people who want to help the environment is growing but many of them do not know how to give a helping hand. There are many things out there that can be done to help the planet from self destruction, but one of the best ways would be to consider a life of vegetarianism. Farm factories are having many negative impacts on our planet. Farm factories impact the environment from the use of land, water and even the way waste is handle. Many of the waters are being contaminated by animal waste because many factories chose to dispose of it in small bodies of water. Waters across the country are now being threatened by the expose of to much waste. The waste that is being release into the water contains phosphorus and nitrogen. When water is exposed to too much of these two nutrients it sometimes robs water from oxygen. When oxygen is robed from water it can lead to the death of many sea animals. Waste can also contain salt and heavy metal that is harmful to the food chain. Since the water is contaminated and that same water moves up the food chain and does further damage to not just animals but also humans. Many farm factories have “lagoons”, which is the area they dump there waste but a lot of this lagoon water is release into ground water. Many of the farm factories use their own ground water for their own...
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...opportunity for individuals to become infected by resistant bacteria.” Factory farms keep their animals in deplorable conditions, so they use antimicrobial drugs to keep them alive and growing at...
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...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 known to be treated the worst as they are forced to be crammed by the thousands and live in their own feces. They are bred to grow larger...
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...Farm Animals face great abuse in the food industry when they are raised; they are being treated as objects instead of living creatures. “Animal Rights: An Overview,” explains the conditions the animals are brought up in: “Common factory farming methods include confining animals in small windowless cubicles, feeding animals hormones to improve the flavor and texture of their meat and milk, and limiting exercise and interaction with other animals” (Rich and Wager). The cages used to keep the animals in are far too small for all of them to fit and have room to walk around in. This is all on purpose so the animals never have the chance to exercise, which increases the amount of meat on them. Another way the industry fattens up the animals is by...
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...Animal rights are rights that are often forgotten or looked over. Humans have many rights protecting them from many things, but the animals have little rights making them vulnerable to many things. Animals are put through a lot of cruel things. There are many industries that are tough on animals and there is nothing protecting them from the torture they receive. The food industry is a major industry that puts animals through a lot of pain and suffering. Some of the things those animals are born into is cruel and inhumane. Factory farm animals are put through some tough stuff. Factory farm animals are packed so tight that a lot of them can barely move, many of the animals in factory farms have no access to the outdoors at all so they live their...
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...My family lived in New York City. We originally came to America from Germany. My parents, in church, heard that some of the other families in our church were moving west into Appalachia where they could have land, and some new opportunities. My father had been a farmer in Germany and liked that work more than working in a factory. Life here in Appalachia is much different than living in New York. We have a large amount of land and our closest neighbors are miles away. It is very hilly and very different from where we were living. Instead of working in a factory, my father farms, and we raise pigs. He says he farmed more land in Germany, but it was not hilly like here. My older brothers help him farm, while my younger sister and I feed the pigs, collect chestnuts and help our mother inside the house. It is nice to have so much more space, but I miss having friends to play with every day and stores, especially the ones that have toys and candy. Going to a store or even playing with other kids is now a special event, but we don’t mind. Unlike New York, my parents are not worried about crime and being robbed, but we do have to worry about wild animals. When we first arrived this was a bigger problem, but now, it is getting better. I think part of it is that we are adjusted, and part of it is that most families also hunt for food, and animals mostly stay clear. Now that we have been here a while and are growing up, we like it and look forward to starting our own families...
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...will evaluate Holly Farms operations and business strategies in order to improve its return on farm tour assets. Operations will be evaluated based on sales forecast and capacity constraints within the businesses. I will evaluate Gillian Giles strategy and propose possible solutions for capacity constraints and other potential operational issues. II. Background In 1993, Fred and Gillian Giles opened Holly Farms for agri-tourism to supplement declining profits from their traditional farming business. Holly Farms invested all of their savings in a 40 space car park and six space park for 40 seater coaches, a milking parlor, ice cream factory, and various touring attractions. Gillian Giles stopped her promotional activities to focus on operations and as a result paying attendance leveled out around 15,000. To improve its return on investments Gillian plans to increase ice cream sales by increasing the number of visitors by 50 percent and expanding the ice cream line from 4 flavors to 10. III. Methods/Procedures Holly Farms is open to tourists April through October and operates Friday through Monday with twice as many customers on Saturday and Sunday. The The staff performs traditional farm work Tuesday through Thursday. The farm is open from 11am to 7pm but 90 percent of the customers arrive after 12:30pm, picnic until 2pm, and tour the farm until 4pm. The milking...
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...community and has greatly hindered its proper development are as follows:- 1) Lack of infrastructure such as roads, electricity and water: this is the main challenge that we face in my community. The murram roads leading to my community are in poor conditions and become really muddy during rainy seasons and very dusty during the hot dry spells. This greatly hinders easy transportation of people and goods in and out of the community. Being that the roads are not tarmacked, the heavy-duty tractors that aid in the transportation of sugarcane to the factory contribute a lot in the increased destruction making them more bumpy and the transport very hectic. Lack of electricity is another catastrophe that affects my community a lot. Electrification is quite expensive and this is something that most people living in my community cannot achieve because of the poor living conditions and the meager income that they get from selling their farm products and working on the company’s sugarcane plantations. Therefore, electricity is very sparse and only the few who have the capability are able to use it in their homes and charge the other people’s mobile phones at a small fee. Lack of clean water is another challenge that makes my community’s infrastructure to be poor. We mainly depend on streams, boreholes and river water. River Sare, considered the main source of water for domestic, farming and animal use flows through my community. It not considered safe because it is usually not clean, but...
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...diet was fruits and vegetables. They did a good job of domesticating their own animals so that they could spend more time plant foods. Why some societies are more industrially advanced than others? The reason for this was because each part of the world has their own resources. China was the richest country in the 16th and 17th Century mostly because they had the resources to produce silk, spices, and other luxuries. This then gave them ability to trade with other countries that did not have the resources to produce these items. The Spanish and Portuguese would mine and funnel gold and silver over to China in exchange for silk and spices. Later on, England then used their resources to find easier ways to produce cloth. They created the factory system by bringing in spinners, weavers, and others together in one place to make the cloth. This was a more efficient way of making cloth and let them produce enough to trade. So all in all the reason that some places are more advanced is because every place has their own unique resources and it was all about how people used them and learned to benefit from them Why do poor countries not modernize and develop in the same way as wealthier countries? It is very...
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...would divide a nation. It would take a civil war raging throughout the nation to conclude the longstanding separation between the two. The North and South were two different cultures in the same country. In the North, the soil and climate did not favor large farmlands and plantations, and so they relied heavily on industry. Factories were set up making textiles from cotton from the South. Slavery had died out because many immigrants came from Europe to work in the factories. Irish, German, and other Europeans settling in the North led to a huge population boost between 1800 and 1860. There were many skilled workers and the large urban cities were centers of wealth. Both religion and education were organized and there were schools and churches in most towns. Very few boys and almost no girls continued on to secondary school and a college education was reserved for the wealthy. They were more likely to have careers in business, medicine and education. The culture of the North was determined by life in the cities. The South’s soil and climate was ideal for agriculture and growing crops. There were very few large cities and most southerners lived on small farms. Large plantations were owned by the wealthy. Most of the population was made up of Europeans from England and Scotland. One third of the South’s population were African slaves. Cotton became the most important crop after the cotton gin was invented. More slaves were needed to pick cotton and slavery became essential to the...
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