5 December, 2011 Factory Farms: Meatiocre Food When a person is eating a hamburger and thinks about where it came from, he or she probably imagines a healthy cow grazing in a luscious green pasture. Unfortunately, this is the present, and free-roaming animals used for their meat are a thing of the past. Today, a vast majority of the livestock and poultry purchased comes from animals that live in a small space their entire life, and never get to see the light of day. The places that house these
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4/14/15 Factory Farming This has been a big controversial issue for many years between a wide range of people. Factory farming is a system of large scaled industrialized and intensive agriculture that is focused on profit from animals by keeping them indoors with restricted mobility, according to Merriam Webster dictionary. People all over the world have different views on this point and I plan on making sure my point is very clear throughout this paper. I want give reasons why factory farming should
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Factory Farming Abstract Factory farming is the mass production of pigs, chickens, turkeys, and cows to be slaughtered and made into food. Many activists and organizations have attempted to reduce the problem of factory farming, but it is still a long way from being fixed. Factory farms are used to produce everyday products like bacon, pork, steak, chicken nuggets, milk, cheese, etc. The cost of buying a burger at a local McDonalds is around one to three dollars
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living your life in a crowded box? Factory farming causes many animals to do exactly that. Why treat animals wrongly for a few extra dollars? Today’s society is way to willing to be inhumane just for the extra profit and convenience. Pete Singer, bioethicist, states in his article “Factory Farming”, that this type of business should not happen anymore because of the inhumane factors it produces (1-2). Singer persuades the reader of the horrors of factory farming by using very vivid language, an effective
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Brittney Place Professor Cynthia Spence English 92 16 July 2014 “Fixing”: What is Not Broken Nearly four to five million dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States. Overpopulation in the dog and cat community has dropped drastically from twenty to thirty years ago, but still many lives of innocent animals are being taken away every day at animal shelters. Many see it as inhumane; however, some see it as their just animals. In Riverside County the euthanasia rate of dogs and cats
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animals’ are at risk. The consumption of animal products plays a big factor in not only our bodies but our ecosystem as well. Reducing the consumption of meat and dairy can help our environment as well as avoid many diseases that are grown by the farming of animals. Veganism is defined as a diet and lifestyle were the consumption or use of products does not contain anything derived from animal sources, as well as to help promote health and peace while reducing animal and human suffering(Dupler,1)
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Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Factory Farming Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that factory farms are dangerous and abusive and therefore need to be banned. Primary Audience Outcome: I the want the audience to join or support national organizations that protest against factory farms. Thesis Statement: The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural
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What Are the Effects of Animal Cruelty? Dalvi Herrera English 135 Professor Michael Gurin August.25, 2012 Do you know what animal cruelty is? This is a common question where people would probably answer with the same response. The thing is that do you really know what animal cruelty is? Animal cruelty is not only physical abuse that animals receive but also on many other factors. This type of animal cruelty mostly occurs on industrial farms. You’re also probably wondering what an industrial
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Lindsey Kachi Mrs. Ciallella English 8C 16 May 2012 Failure to Care for Livestock The respect towards livestock in America is steadily declining through the practice of "factory farming." Factory farming is performed by the few large companies controlling food processing in America, it is vile and takes away humanity from those who continue to do it. It is the process in which farms "manufacture" food in unhealthy environments rather than safely breed livestock. It negatively affects the
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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
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