...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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...because it is part of everyday life, but they have guilt about the process the meat has been thru to get to them. Meat in America goes through slaughterhouses that have been called into question more and more. Slaughterhouses stop many people from eating meat because of guilt, but changing the process by; first reevaluating the ethical treatment the animals go through, secondly meat needs to not have a sense of guilt come with it, then change the assembly line process when killing the animals, and finally reverting back to hunting animals for just what we need. First, slaughterhouses need to be reevaluated for the ethical treatment of how the animals are killed. There are rules that they slaughterhouses are supposed to abide by both ethical and legal. However, there are many situations where those rules are being broken, but nothing is really being done about it. There was one instance where PETA came in and found that one slaughterhouse was treating the animals with cruelty when they investigated. http://www.peta.org/features/Agriprocessors.aspx http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-slaughterhouse-cruelity-humane-death-myth In this specific case it shows how animals are inhumanely stored to be slaughtered. These companies plead guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty after the investigation was over. They had been killing animals with no pain killers first, cutting off their tails and feet and skinning them. This example just shows that if the big factories and assembly...
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...Horse Slaughter”). The fact that people think it is okay to cruelly treat equine is frowned upon and will never be embraced (¨Ḧorse Slaughter¨). A 2012 national poll found that 80 percent of Americans are against horse slaughter (“The Facts About Horse Slaughter”). The Equine Advocates movement to not only stop the United States from sending horses beyond our borders but to end this inhumane practice all together should be supported. A huge reason why you should support the Equine Advocates movement is because horse slaughter promotes the inhumane treatment of horses. Even though United States plants are no longer in operation, kill buyers continue to buy and haul as many horses as possible around the country to slaughterhouses that have now relocated to Mexico and Canada (“Horse Slaughter”).Equines suffer long before they get to their slaughterhouse destination; Transport conditions for example, horses are crammed into overcrowded stock trailers with other horses which are not suitable for horses (height, length), journeys often lasting 24 hrs or more, deprived of food, water, and rest (“Horse...
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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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...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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...Humans, animals, and the environment are forced to interact with each other due to the cycle of the ecosystem. Green plants are the producers since they produce their own food. On the other hand, humans and animals are both consumers. Not being able to produce their own food, they are ought to use other creatures to survive. If a species could not find food, it would extinct. These food-haunter relationships led researchers to define the “speciesism” phenomenon---a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of another species. Speciesism is a necessary prejudice for any species to survive. The real question is whether humans have become too speciesist and cruel toward animals. Even though...
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...those of industrial animal slaughterhouses bear a multitude of bone chilling similarities. The most prominent being the presence of death on a large and mechanized scale. Through a post-humanist standpoint that rejects notions of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, the Holocaust and industrial slaughter houses are easily comparable and both instances of genocidal horror. A post-humanist view accepts that animals and humans have the same right to live a life free of suffering and murder, on the platform that they are sentient beings and cannot be placed on a moral hierarchy that positions them as less than the human species. This position also acknowledges the interconnectedness and similarities between...
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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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...stress. In order to understand the issue, light must be shed on the background of the workers. About 38% of slaughterhouse employees are born outside of the U.S. and a portion of them are undocumented. Meat-processing facilities often...
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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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...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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...HLTH 320 The documentary “The Food, INC gave me insight on food production issues that I was unaware of. The manufacturing companies have a strong hold on farmers that prevents the natural way of farming. Farmers spend thousands of dollars purchasing new equipment to make companies such as Tyson happy. These farmers end up borrowing more money than they actually make. The issues in food production include cheap labor, immigration, e-coli contamination, pesticide usage, the fast food industry, and the sanitary conditions for both animals and workers in factories. Companies such as Smithfield recruit immigrants from Mexico to work in their factories. workers are paid very low wage and endure unsafe work conditions. There is an agreement between manufacturing companies and INS so that immigrants to be deported in small numbers. This is done so that the factory’s production is not affected. I was unaware that immigrants work for these large manufacturing companies for such a low wage. These people are exploited by companies such as Smithfield. Some of these workers have been working in United States for over fifteen years. The corporations are robbing livelihood of workers and there only means of survival. We as Americans lobby against immigrant’s presence in the United States. The ham and turkey we buy that is so inexpensive for Thanksgiving dinner is made possible by immigrant workers. The fast food industry has been profitable...
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...not it is morally right to consume animals. Pollan’s opinion towards consuming animals is quite explicit in the beginning. He started out be seeing no harm in consuming animals, but his opinion started to change after reading Peter Singer’s book, “Animal Liberation”. While reading through the book, Pollan learned that eating animals, wearing animals, experimenting on animals, and killing animals for entertainment are all viewed as “speciesism”. He quotes, “speciesism”- a neologism I had encountered before only in jokes- as a form of discrimination as indefensible as racism or anti-Semitism”. (Pollan 361) Through this quote Pollan is explaining that he had only come across...
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...Singer’s main focus on “All Animals are Equal” is mainly their suffering and how they should have some sort of rights. Us humans eat these animals with no thoughts of the pain that they go through or even if they have pain. The same way we don't kill each other by their intelligence or understand when someone is in pain, we shouldn’t have animals suffering. He says most people are speciesism, which only thinks about themselves and not the cause of how animals can have moral rights. He compares racism, speciesism, and sexism to all be the same, meaning that they all have equality no matter what they believe in, so why can’t nonhumans have equality like humans do. In the chapter, All Animals are Equal what he is trying to say or show others is...
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...All Animals are Equal The argument I’ll be addressing today is to decide if “All Animals are Equal” by Pete Singer. Singer’s essay “All Animals are Equal,” develops an emotional debate for how we view or treat animals as humans (Singer, P. 1989). He also stirs up an argument regarding the equal treatment of animals and the equality with how we treat human beings as a whole. “Singer calls for the beginning of a “liberation movement” similar to those that were sprouting up during the period in which he wrote his essay and focused on such issues as gay, women’s and African-American rights.” There has been a lot of media coverage of an American dentist whole killed a lion in another country, while ignoring some senseless killings in our own country. Has the time come for us as human beings, beginning to respect the rights of animal’s verses our own kind? Will we continue to enjoy that nice steak dinner, hamburger, or thanksgiving turkey? Is it fair to say the sport we call hunting, is inhumane as abortion, the death penalty, or sending our defenders of this country to war for some people? Could his message be subliminal in this essay by referring those animal to human beings that endured struggle? Are we born into this world to be vegetarians due to our teeth structure and development of our body composition? We very well be but that decision should be left to the individual to decide. Pete’s utilitarian direction, due to the theory of an animal that suffers, should be...
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