As I sit in the car, listening to my music with my eyes focused on my phone, trying to ignore my dad singing that’s completely out of key, I know the minute we get close to a farm. It's not the change of scenery or my dad saying, “Look cows!”; it's the smell. Everyone knows it too well, the stink of manure. Weather its cow patties, animal droppings, dung, guano, or stool, every animal goes number two; and some more than others. According to Daniel Oldham, a researcher at North Carolina A&T State University, hog farms produce forty three billion gallons of manure yearly. That’s a lot of poop! This manure has to go somewhere, so farmers create lagoons to hold manure until they are ready to spread it onto the fields as fertilizer. Most people …show more content…
Sadly, most of our wildlife is dying because of an influx of pollution in our waterways. The Chicago Tribune explained that from 2005 to 2014, one million fish died statewide due to pollution incidents. Four hundred and ninety two thousand of those fish deaths are due to hog farm incidents. Hog farmers have been trying for decades to find safe ways to remove waste from their farms. Many farmers have created lagoons to put this extra waste in. These lagoons are prone to overflow during a big rain, just like your toilets overflow when it continues to put more water into a full bowl. Pig waste contains more than one hundred microbial pathogens that can cause human illness such as salmonella and streptococci. Let’s not forget the amount of antibiotics and other medicines that leave the pig's body through excretion. These medicines wind up in our water sources and can injure wildlife that drink or live in the water. These diseases, medicines, and black slug that comes from the solid waste of feces make waterways completely unusable to wildlife and small agricultural
In his article “Boss Hog: The Dark Side of America’s Top Pork Producer,” (Rolling Stone Magazine, December 14, 2006) Jeff Teitz reports that not only are millions upon millions of pigs being abused and slaughtered each year by America’s largest pork producer, but, in turn, the waste produced by those pigs is polluting, destroying, and even killing others. Teitz begins by revealing that Smithfield Foods, the world’s most profitable pork processor, killed 27 million hogs last year, which is roughly equivalent to the entire human populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities. As Teitz delves deeper into statistics, he explains that more fecal matter is produced from half a million pigs at one Smithfield subsidiary than the 1.5 million residents of Manhattan, and in just one year Smithfield’s total waste discharge is enough to fill four Yankee Stadiums.
The most pressing issue that is associated with CAFO’s comes from the amount of manure/waste they produce. The manure that results from CAFO’s contains a panoply of potential contaminants. The manure is filled with plant nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, pathogens such as E.coli, growth hormones, antibiotics, chemicals used as additives to the manure or to clean equipment, animal blood, silage...
“A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing does not have a heart. A dog’s heart is bigger than any “thing” you can ever own.” -Elizabeth Parker. According to the ASPCA, a puppy mill can be defined as “a large-scale commercial dog breeding facility where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs” (Puppy Mills 1). Dogs are more than just items that are sold for profit, they are part of many people’s families. The way dogs are being treated in the mills is not the way one would want someone in your family to be treated. Because puppy mills do not care for the animal’s health, wellbeing, or safety they should be banned federally.
Power is authority and strength, which is any form of motive force or energy, ability to act, or control. When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can form, in which all decisions are made by one authority. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell the author portrays how “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).
I believe that the most effective propaganda technique used in animal farm is glittering generalities. The reason for this is that they use certain words and phrases to get the animals to do what they want them to do. This is shown in the story when the animals discovered that the pigs were taking the milk and mixing it in with their mash. Squealer tells the animals in response, “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back” (52). This is an example of glittering generalities because Squealer uses phrases like your sake, and failed our duty. These words stir the emotions of the animals, and the pigs don’t have to go into specifics or use
Although George Orwell’s Animal Farm was created in order to mimic individuals as well as occurrences that took place during the Russian Revolution period, it is still possible to gain a comprehensive understanding of the text without a past knowledge of history through the exploitation of human nature’s imperfections. Following the publishment of his novel, Orwell confirmed that his goal in writing this fable was to expose the wrongdoing of the Soviet Union as well as the treachery of the true ideas of the Revolution. Nonetheless, there have been several other examples of events such as the French Revolution that can effortlessly be contrasted against components of the allegory. However, we need not to dig no deeper than to the fundamental faults in human nature to witness the catastrophic consequences that attributes such as hierarchy, propaganda and betrayal have on today’s society.
Over the past few decades, small and medium sized farms have been taken over by large-scale factory farms. These farms house billions of animals used for consumption each year. The conditions on factory farms are filthy, overcrowded and disease ridden. Animals forced to live out their lives on these farms are subject to extremely harsh conditions, such as mutilation, confinement and living spaces piled high with feces. Not only do conditions on factory farms make life for livestock absolutely miserable, but factory farms are also negatively impacting human health and the environment. The production and sale of meat has become a billion-dollar industry based upon the bloodshed of other sentient beings. With this being the case, at the very least, factory farms need to be properly regulated and companies involved need to be held accountable for their abuse.
Do you want many dogs to die? In my opinion you don’t so we should stop shelters to euthanize them or kill them. Did you know that shelters often kill pets each day. It should be against the law to euthanize animals at shelters because it is inhuman, that most pet stores are supporting a puppy mill and just to make more money
Each year 2 million dogs are breeded by puppy mills and over 1.2 millions dogs every year are put down. There can be no argument that these numbers do not relate. Puppy mills are places that breed dogs for profit. In a lot of these mills dogs are kept in metal cages for 24 hours and do not not get any medical attention. These puppy mills are about profit and anything that cuts into there profit margins they neglect (dog food, veterinary services, protection from heat or cold). Some may argue that there are responsible breeders that care for their breeded puppies, however these breeders still contribute of the the endless cycle of dogs not having home and either being on the street or in a crowded shelter. The fact is that
How much is that doggy in the window? The one with the waggly tail? Well, if you knew where the puppy came from, you may think twice about purchasing the canine. Puppy mills have been around for over fifty years. (1) In these mills, the people who are in charge of the dogs, also known as breeders, are breeding female dogs left and right. Not only are they breeding them every chance they get, but they are performing this task in very unsanitary conditions which causes serious health issues to these animals in the mills. While puppy mills can help people who want to find a breed of dog that is hard to find, puppy mills need to be terminated due to the puppies’ being mistreated and abused, the overpopulation of dogs causing euthanization, and
In animal agriculture today, manure that is produced by hogs has the potential to do a lot
ANIMAL FARM About 80 per-cent of all the animals on Animal Farm completely followed the seven commandments. The other 20 per-cent of the animals would rarely follow all the rules and they were often treated like a piece of dirt. All the animals on Animal Farm were treated differently according to their social status, where in today’s society everyone should treat everyone equally. The characters in Animal Farm had many diverse characteristics, some of the animals were powerful, stupid, and sneaky First of all, Napoleon is a huge Berkshire boar and he clearly is the most powerful of all the animals. He was able to take complete leadership of the farm because he secretly trained the dogs to attack Snowball. George Orwell writes, “ ‘Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. ‘That will be attended to, the harvest is more important’ (817).&nb describe Napoleon as a leader, “ ‘long live Comrade Napoleon’ ” (846). All the animals on the farm (no matter what Napoleon did to them) would treat him as a powerful leader and whatever he said they would do. Often Orwell stirs up controversy about the rebellion, “ ‘forward in the name of the rebellion. ‘Long live Animal Farm!’ ‘Long live Comrade Napoleon!’ ‘Napoleon is always right.’
A United Nations report states that land used for animal agriculture, both for grazing and production of crops fed to livestock, takes up an astounding 30% of land on Earth. ("Meat Production Wastes Natural Resources") To meet the industry’s demands, over 260 million acres of forest in the U.S. have been cleared to grow grain fed to farm animals. ("Meat Production Wastes Natural Resources") With that in mind, the meat industry also dumps disease-causing pathogens through animal waste that pollutes water and forces the need for waste lagoons to be constructed, which are susceptible to leaking and flooding. ("Facts about Pollution from Livestock Farms”) Scientists say that about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gases are released by said agriculture industries, which is a growing concern for climate change and global warming. (Silverman) The meat industry uses one-third of all the fossil fuels consumed in the United States. (Moore) There is no question that farming animals has a negative effect on the environment and steps should be taken to mitigate air and water pollution risks and future deforestation. If animal agriculture was phased out, land used for animal grazing could be returned to forest land and some of it converted into fields for cultivating crops for humans. A global shift toward veganism, resulting in the elimination of the meat and animal agriculture industries, would protect the environment from various detrimental effects.
Animal Farm, a novel by George Orwell, was a story of courage and corrupt government. It was set on a farm in England. This setting is very important to the story itself and the characters in it. It made the plot a lot more interesting and influenced all the characters.
Writers often use social criticism in their books to show corruptness or weak points of a group in society. One way of doing this is allegory which is a story in which figures and actions are symbols of general truths. George Orwell is an example of an author who uses allegory to show a social criticism effectively. As in his novel Animal Farm, Orwell makes a parody of Soviet Communism as demonstrated by Animal Farm's brutal totalitarian rule, manipulated and exploited working class, and the pigs' evolution into the capitalists they initially opposed.