Would a person like it if they sat in a cage way to small for them for their entire life? Farm animals face this problem and much more every day. Farm animals are severely abused, they don’t produce as much as they should, and there are many things that we can do to help save farm animals from this treatment. Farm animals suffer from many types of abuse, many of them illegal and horrific. “Battery-caged hens are typically provided with a meager 61 square inches of space in which to live-- that’s less than the size of this page.” (Mercyforanimals.org, 2007) This author writes this to inform the reader of some of what types of abuse these farm animals suffer from. Farm animals suffer from being constantly confined, shunned, and often forgotten …show more content…
“Despite being one of the most popular companion animals in the country, rabbits are among the most exploited. Domestic rabbits-- cherished for their gentle, playful natures-- are skinned for their fur, blinded to test cosmetics, and raised by breeders motivated by profit.” (Mercyforanimals.org, 2007) What this author is saying to inform their readers is that even lovable animals like bunnies are being slaughtered for profit. Farm animals are skinned, gassed, trapped, electrocuted, clubbed, and drowned to collect fur for our everyday things. These treatments are cruel and if they were forced upon a dog or a cat, it would be illegal. Farm animals may also face painful physical mutilations without any anesthesia. Not only are chickens confined, but so are other farm animals, such as calves. Calves raised for veal are kept in crates so small and narrow that they aren’t even able to turn around, much less live. (Mercyforanimals.org, 2007) Farm animals are abused in many ways, all of which are cruel and horrific. (Humanesociety.org, …show more content…
In order to change how these animals are treated, we have to get important people in the law involved. Letting important people, such as state legislators and representatives will help change the way they are treated because they can help change the laws and persuade the minds of the people. “Let your state legislators know that legal protections for all animals are important and that undercover whistleblower investigations are vital to policing the industry.” (Animal Legal Defense Fund, 2018) Letting these legislators know about this and having them help with this investigation will help these animals by discussing the problems and finding better solutions. Some of the problems we can bring up to these state legislators are that all farm animals deserve the same laws and rights as cats and dogs. We can expose the truth. We can let the people know how the food they are eating is treated in its last moments of life, and possibly change their minds about what they consume that comes from animals. There are many ways we can help protect farm animals from
Every year over 100 million animals die in the US; the cause for these deaths, animal testing. This injustice to animals involves testing products such as medical drugs or makeup, on poor imprisoned animals that don’t have the ability to stand for their own rights as most of us do. Animals used for testing are given products that may result in burning, poisoning, or death. These animals are forced to live in confined spaces where they wait until the next horrible experiment. They are, tortured beyond imagination as they are sometimes even cut open while they are alive (know as vivisection), either with expired analgesics or even without them.
The modern fight for animal rights has been geared toward factory farms and the removal of animal testing and ag-gag laws. Protection for test animals and farm animals has become an important focus for many animal rights groups including ASPCA. The end of uncomfortable and inhumane treatment of animals is still a fight thousands are fighting
Although confinement of livestock and poultry is a well-established practice, modern housing does not allow animals to exhibit most normal behaviors3. Research has shown that animals held in restricted cage areas suffer from unnecessary stress and are unable to maintain normal bone structure, most commonly in the limbs and/or wings. The larger cages suggested by Proposition Two might provide a great deal of opportunities to supplement the wellbeing of animals and the quality of the products that they produce.
In the United States alone, nearly [9] billion farm animals are consumed annually, and the vast majority of them are abused in ways that would cause you to go to jail for.... According to non-profit advocacy group Farm Forward, in the last 70 years cruel, factory farms have grown to the point where they produce more than 99 percent of the domesticated farm animals raised to provide food in the United States.... Three main systems are most exceptionally cruel, gestation crates for pregnant pigs, veal crates for calves, and battery cages for laying hens.... Most animals can’t move because of the tight, cramped spaces causing malnutrition in the bones. [Imagine staying in one spot for the remainder of your life cramped in a pen, or even...
Robert Gonzales, from Bakersfield, seemed like an average, ordinary man. One night however, he was accused of splashing beach on a small dog, and wrapping the dog’s mouth with duct tape. His goal was to discipline the dog. Gonzales was caught and arrested for abusing the animal. Animal abuse is an occurring problem in the U.S. But can be prevented if we take action.
Animals trapped in factory farms are severely abused and tortured from birth to death. Chickens sometimes will be starved for up to 2 weeks and given no water to shock their bodies into moulting, chickens and hens will have their beaks removed to prevent fighting between other animals. Pigs will get their tails cut off to stop other pigs biting them off. These cruel procedures are done to minimise as few of animals dying as possible so more product can be created by the farmer. Within factory farms, animals are abused with overuse of antibiotics to prevent disease and maximise their body growth to create a higher yield of product. According to Animal Rights Action, 2 out of 3 farms are now factory farmed worldwide and factory farming is only increasing this is leading to more animals being raised for slaughter, abused and tortured, mentally and physically. This is not fair. How would you feel losing your child minutes after it's born? As within factory farms, female cows get their calves are taken away from them within minutes they are born never to be seen again. This leaves these poor female cows depressed which causes them to lose weight and because of this are slaughtered as farmers want to maximise their yield of
“There can be many reason for animal cruelty, like any other form of violence, is often committed by a person who feels powerless, unnoticed, or under control of others. Some who are cruel to animals copy acts what they have seen or that have been done to them, others see harming an animal as a safe way to get revenge against--or threaten-- someone who cares about that animal”. (“Animal… Statistics”) Concerns towards abusing animals have gone up in the past. Although there are not many cases on animal abuse, many have occurred. Abusers are charged with Criminal Animal Abuse and then sentenced to life in prison. Some animals that are physically abused are sometimes rescued by Animal Control, and are taken it to an animal shelter. However, many shelters have not had the space to keep the animals so the workers would have to put them down (Carol Roach). Researchers have shown that the main animals getting abused are dogs, chickens, horses, and livestock (“Animal...
This story Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novel about an animal revolution over an oppressive farmer. The irony in the story comes when the pigs turn into the very thing revolted against. They exhibit the same cruelty by treating the other animals the same or even worse than previous owners. This cycle of cruelty is shown in the Russian revolution by Joseph Stalin who is represented by Napoleon in the story. Cruelty in animal farm is shown by the human’s treatment of the animals, and the animal’s eventual treatment of each other and the ironic characteristics of the two.
Factory farms have portrayed cruelty to animals in a way that is horrific; unfortunately the public often does not see what really goes on inside these “farms.” In order to understand the conditions present in these factory farms, it must first be examined what the animals in these factory farms are eating. Some of the ingredients commonly used in feeding the animals inside factory farms include the following: animal byproducts, plastic, drugs and chemicals, excessive grains, and meat from members of the same species. (Adams, 2007) These animals are tortured and used for purely slaughter in order to be fed on. Typically large numbers of animals are kept in closed and tight confinements, having only little room to move around, if even that. These confinements can lead to suffocation and death and is not rare. Evidence fr...
Executive Summary Every 60 seconds, an animal is abused. Dogs, cats, horses, and many other types of animals are being neglected and tortured everyday, yet resulting in few and minor consequences for the perpetrators. Animal abuse is prevalent in the United States and has been an ongoing issue since the 1970's, and prior to. Society as a whole has chosen to avoid the facts and arguments about animal cruelty, because to some it is seen as acceptable and typical. It becomes much more frowned upon when people actually see the results of the cruelty, especially in the media.
There are many debates around the world about the topic of animal abuse. Animal abuse in the food industry has become a major problem due to the cruel treatment of animals. Most of the world's population might think that animal cruelty is only found in homes and on the street, but they forget about the other forms of animal abuse that affect the food industry. Large contributors to animal abuse are due to fishing methods, animal testing, and slaughterhouses. "Animals have always been a major part of our society in history and they have played huge roles in agriculture" (ASPCA). Factory farming is a system of confining chickens, pigs, and cattle under strictly controlled conditions. Slaughterhouses are places where animals are killed
...edia] do not tell us that chickens are the most tortured animals in factory farms and that most chickens have to stand on their own feces all day and end up getting litter burn from their manure … hens are often crammed together in cases so tiny that they do not get enough room to even lift a single wing—which then immobilizes them for their entire lives…” The animals do not even have space to move for their life. Living life only to be tortured and slaughtered alive is a really horrible thing to experience for the animals.
America focuses heavily on its livestock and crops earning us a major role in global trade as a farming nation. Unfortunately this has led to some poor choices in treatment of our animals. Many farmers who believe in animal rights say that it started back when farmers only tended to fewer animals, “Ownership of farm animals became concentrated in fewer hands, and flocks and herds grew larger. As a result, the individuality of animals was lost to their owners and they began receding from most people's everyday life” (Namit 29). When people lost their connection to the animals that provided their food, the quality of the animal's lives began to dramatically decrease. Consumers constantly pushed farmers to their limits with high quotas. To keep up with demands agriculturalists turned to some unorthodox practices to keep costs low and still maintain their annual quotas; “To raise efficiency and cut costs, farm animals began to be engineered for abnormally rapid weight gain, fed unnatu...
They are then tossed with no care from the trucks onto the ground. This causes injuries and great pain. They are given no treatment, just left to suffer.” “The animal is brutally pulled out of the cage, then tied to prevent resistance. The animal receives a blow to the head.