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
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Food Inc. is a very eye opening documentary to the American way of eating and even the American way of life. The investigative journalist Robert Kenner really digs deep behind the reasons why Americans have become so distanced from the source of their food. It is interesting to see to what extent large corporations control the American economy to the point of deciding what lands on the dinner plate of the lower class families. The interests of the people have become the veil of the interest of the
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Watch out! GMO potatoes are taking over the market`s shelves GMOs are taking over the world. One sentence which provoked horror everywhere. Many people are unfamiliar with this abbreviation, but others are leading a cold war against it. What does GMO stand for? GMO or Genetically Modified Organism is applied to any food or meat which has been genetically modified through its growth or cultivation. In other words, vast industries are merging DNA from various species in order to increase production
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P3- Although selective breeding enables farmers to incur a lot of money from the masses of meat on the Belgian Blue Cattle, it has many negative implications on the health of the animal. The most common of these is the cause of dystocia which incurs calving difficulties which has led to the extraordinary high amount of caesareans being carried out. Because Belgian Blues have been bred for specific characteristics, such as double muscling they cannot give have a healthy natural birth, because
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corn and other supplements to make them get fatter faster. The corn eaten by the steers come from the elevators filled with extra corn from the farmers. These farmers are being paid by subsidies to farm their corn when they are spending more money farming than their profit. Steer 534 ties the whole book together, learning where food comes from, because it involves the corn and all the processes that workers go through to make more
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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
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Why Don’t We Eat Dogs? Franklin Salcedo DeVry University 01-27-2013 Why Don’t We Eat Dogs? What makes some animals better than others? Or better yet, why do we eat certain animals while it is a crime to eat others? It is questions like these that many people would hope to ignore forever or rather avoid. But as humans, these are the type of questions which define us as better beings and often challenge us to think and act in a way that’s worthy of our better capabilities, intellect, conscience
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they kept animals in an overcrowded, filthy environment and poorly nurtured before killing them. Although this prompted regulation laws, it still distressed some people. I was also disturbed when I learned how milk factories biologically modify cows to produce milk faster. The milk factories genetically modify and dose cows with special hormones, which speeds up milk production ten times faster than natural rate, then the cows are hooked up to milking machine all day long. It seemed very cruel. But from
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Another question I had was the idea of the history of animal domestication. I found a good website to help me answer this question. The website is called jyi.org and the article I read was “Our Furry Friends: The History of Animal Domestication” written by Jessica Lear. This website discusses the domestication of all animals from dogs and cats to elephants and zebras. Animals play a big part in human society. Especially farm animals, who provide us with food and produce. The first farm animals to
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of depression, tension, anger, fatigue, and confusion. The bacteria that is released into the air is so toxic that people are reported to have lost consciousness on more than one occasion when they went outside their house. With many thousands of factory farms in the U.S., lagoons could potentially cause many problems for the entire
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