grass as we imagine they do from childhood stories. There is no freedom or joy for farmed pigs and chickens . It is misery from the day they are born to the day they die. Pigs won't ever get to step outdoors or breathe fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks and taken to their slaughter house and the chicken dont ever get to go outside the basically die in that small confined cage . No one would ever like to have this happen to them. Pigs and chickens feel pain just the way we do. I
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Ticks, the invertebrates invading our domestic animals, livestock and on humans. It has become an increased problem throughout the United States, especially in the northern part of the US. With the increased number of ticks, comes the increased number of animals and human being infected with lyme disease, associated with the commonly known deer tick or its scientific name, Ixodes scapularis. This organism carries a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, commonly known as lyme disease. Lyme disease is
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would continue reading if I were you... Animals evolve and adapt to their surroundings constantly. One reason is climate change. As pollution fills the air because of factories and other ozone damaging instruments it changes the climate and environment in many different ways. As the ozone deteriorates it allows more harmful rays from the sun to reach the surface of the earth and raise the climate. As the climate climbs, penguins and other snow dwelling animals. Ice and snow begin to perish as water
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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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Jainism is one of many religions born in India. Jains live and worship in an effort to free the soul through the ethical pillars. The Jiva is that which grows, decays, fluctuates, varies, eats, sleeps, awakes, acts, fears, rests, has knowledge and perception, attempts to self defend, and reproduces. These and more qualities of the jiva are obvious through a physical body when the soul is present in it but when the soul leaves these qualities cease. These qualities are external features and consciousness
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pondered on how humans treat animals, cultural imperialism or what she calls a “multi optic vision”; which I interpreted as a multicultural vision, from her 2nd book, Dangerous Crossings. Kim is a vegan who also is against animal cruelty, but her talk centered on the issues that confound multicultural societies. During her talk, Kim told the complex story of San Francisco’s Chinatown and briefly discussed stereotyping. In Chinatown there was a debate on the sale of live food due to animal cruelty concerns
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a group of guys. Although it may be stereotypical and a little exaggerated, it presents the idea of how guys like to get on each other’s nerves and how they bond. It begins as Tub, one of the main characters, is stuck in the cold waiting on his friends to arrive for their habitual hunting trip. They almost hit him with their truck as they run halfway in the road and halfway on the sidewalk, and we see there is some immediate mistreatment between the group. As the story continues, there are many more
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question we are asking our self’s the question of how did life begin or were did we come from? In the first statement of the book of Genesis it says simple “In the beginning God created…” We were created by God in His image. The Psalmist in the book of Psalms states that he is fearfully and wonderfully made. This can only refer back to what Moses was saying in Genesis that we are created. The next point that is brought up is the point of Identity. What does it mean to be human? Are we more important
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used annually in the US. As a result, the average American’s body contains over thirteen different types of pesticides. How are most of these pesticides entering our bodies, through the food we consume. So, why does our food contain so many pesticides, because over 70% of it comes from Industrial Farming Operations. Today I would like to talk about multiple reasons as to why we need to move away from Industrial Farming and towards a more sustainable type of farming. What is Industrial Farming? Industrial
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Animal Rights First of you might ask what is animal rights? Well, animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, services to humans. The earliest animal rights has been around (theory, proposal or project wise) is by Percy Bysshe Shelley ,born from 1792-1822, it doesn’t exactly say when he proposed the idea but it had to have been early 1800’s. The first time it became a real thing was in 1970 by richard D. Ryder and was known as speciesism
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