Factory Farms
Although factory farms may sound harmful, they are good to the animals, the environment, and the farmers that look over them. Just like humans, animals love to be around other animals. They want the contact between each other or they will get lonely. Factory farms help make this possible by raising an abundance of animals, whether it is beef cattle, swine, dairy cattle, or the most common, chickens. Like what the media portrays, Factory Farms have negative influences on animals in agriculture and society as a whole.
(Big farms are highly suggested over smaller farms due to the amount of animals you can grow on them.) As told by Implications of Pig Factory Farming, “However, beginning with factory farming chickens in
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1923 through Celia Steele she increased her stock from 50 to 250,000 within 12 years (Foer 104-105).” This shows that since she had a bigger farm, she was able to make her flock of chickens bigger that it was for her to start with. There was a great change in animal production and it saw “an expansion in concentrated animal feeding operations” (Gibson, Azzam, and Schoengold). Since the expansion we are able to grow an abundance amount of animals to sell to butchers so tell to the public to buy to eat. (Factory Farms give off a great amount of jobs for citizens to apply for.) Since the facilities are so large, there is a need to have a lot of work done each day to keep everything up to code written by the USDA.
As of what Asia-Pacific says, “They offer a wide variety of job opportunities and economic stimulation to areas of the world that are in desperate need of this type of help.” Each facility has all different kinds of duties that need to be done daily. Not just one person would be able to run a factory farm by their self. That is why we have teamwork and communication to work together to get jobs done on a daily basis. As told by Factory Farming Hidden Impacts, “Alongside of the pressures on small and medium sized farmers there has been a trend towards the increasing casualization of farm work, with a preference for temporary or migrant workers” (Web). This shows that all farms can use help and that the help could be for …show more content…
anyone. (Generally on small farms the animals get all the feed they want. On these Factory Farms, they get limited to only so much feed per animal per day.) On an average diet for any kind of livestock, they need some sort of grain, water, and then depending on the species some sort of forage. “A large percentage of grains grown in the US are used in animal feed, with 47% of soy and 60% of corn produced in the US being consumed by livestock (Grace Communications Foundation). This fact shows that what we grow as producers is given back to the animals that we have for them to be consumers. So that whatever we grow as farmers we will always have near by. In the big units like Factory Farms, the space is limited. Although the space is limited, builders of the barns are more than likely, willing to build more barns if needed by the farmer. Even though the issue there would be if the farmer had enough money to build a new barn, it would really come down to if the farmer wanted to make more products for us as humans to consume. Examples would be pork chops off of a market hog, steak off of a market steer, and breast off of a market chicken. These are market animals because they are fed a diet that does not have many fancy foods in it like the show industry diets do. The market industry and the show industry are very different, but have one thing in common. The ending process of the animal is a part of life and the ending at that is that everything has to die some how. Like what the media portrays, Factory Farms have positive influences on animals in agriculture and society as a whole.
Although a lot of people think of factory farms as negative things for our environment and for the animals as well. I have shown you the positives to these farms and this way you can take a deeper look to them. Each farm is different in its own way because the farmer is the main boss person. Then the hired hands are just under the farmer and everyone does everything differently. So one farm might have a large amount of feed per day and another might have a small amount. It all depends on the farmer. I hope that you can take factory farms into a deeper meaning
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After reading McKibben and Hurst’s articles in the book Food Matters, both authors present arguments on “industrial farming”, and although Hurst provides a realistic sense on farming, McKibben’s suggestions should be what we think about.
Factory Farming “To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.” ― Melanie Joy Factory Farming is a cruel way for industries to make big money. Animals are treated very poorly and are forced to live in unhealthy conditions. I believe that there are other ways to humanely use animals for food, without abusing and painfully leaving animals to slowly die for the pleasure of our people.
What if you were born to die and live a miserable, torturous life in between? This is everyday life for animals on factory farms. Factory Farming is a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions. [add in citation for definition] Factory farming isn’t only inhumane, but it’s also hurting our health, and we don’t even have the slightest clue. With our culture today, we believe whatever the media tells us; we trust them. Each and every year, the meat industries put mounds of money into advertising, brainwashing us and telling us what food we should eat. They run their advertisements on the television, radio, and Internet ads, and have even partnered with schools in exchange for free educational resources. We like to imagine that the meat we are eating was once free, happy, and had a fast death. But that is a lie. If we don’t do anything, who will? Did you know that more than 19 million animals are killed every hour? That means 19,011 animals are killed per minute (2013d). Animals in factory farms are born, raised, and slaughtered in confined buildings. They are never allowed out to run, to enjoy life. They are born to be killed and tortured in-between. This isn’t just about one farm animal, but a variety of them. +++ Last sentence is unnecessary, include in other sentences to tie in what different animals AND how it’s effecting humans. ++THESIS STATEMENT. ☺
Animal rights are practically non-existent in many different ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to the poor helpless animals. Factory farming effects chickens, cows, pigs, and many other animals that are used for food, milk and eggs. One of the biggest organizations against factory farming is called Compassion Over Killing (COK). They go to great lengths to protest and inform people about animal cruelty.
Factory farming is where animals are packed as closely together as attainable, most never see or feel the sunlight, able to get fresh air or even able to turn around. These terrible conditions have serious effects on the animals physically and mentally. Illness spreads and fights break out between animals. This worldwide epidemic known as factory farming began when greedy people began to modify farms to maximise profit for themselves, but because of this, it not only has a terrible impact on animals but
Many will say factory farming can be efficient, which it can be because “with the use of factory farms, the prices of food has drastically dropped.” (greengarageblog.org) and “the main reason for this is that food are being processed and produced at a faster rate by employing efficient processes.” (greengarageblog.org) Factory farming is also considered efficient because of livestock being raised in small confined spaces which gives more space to be utilized. this makes the cost of land go down because of the smaller amount of space they have to buy. Also factory farming uses high tech machinery to replace the manual labor that farmers would have to do. the machinery leaves little jobs open so the most fitting person would get the job. farmers will then be able to hire better workers. Trying to better the situation on disease carrying food with the cost of food being cheaper through factory farming, it gives farmers more money to grow and raise a larger variety of food. The advancements in bio technology also has led to the creation of hybrid plants that can resist
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Behavior means the way that someone behaves. Then, modification is the small change to something or the process of changing something slightly, especially to improve it. So, behavior modification means the slightly change of behavior in order to improve it through the present of positive or negative reinforcement. Furthermore, behavior modification also can be manipulated through the punishment as well. On the other hand, behavior modification is a set of techniques that underline with instrumental conditioning (Skinner,1938, 1953). Besides that, behavior modification also include reinforcement and punishment in order to strengthen the desired behavior or to terminate the undesired behavior (Skinner, 1938, 1953).
Can you imagine spending your whole life in a cage? This is the reality that animals face daily on a factory farm. Factory farming needs to be stopped. This should be a serious concern because animals from factory farming can harm human health, it also harms the environment and it is not an ethical way to treat the animals.
Poultry is by far the number one meat consumed in America; it is versatile, relatively inexpensive compared to other meats, and most importantly it can be found in every grocery store through out the United States. All of those factors are made possible because of factory farming. Factory farming is the reason why consumers are able to purchase low-priced poultry in their local supermarket and also the reason why chickens and other animals are being seen as profit rather than living, breathing beings. So what is exactly is factory farming? According to Ben Macintyre, a writer and columnist of The Times, a British newspaper and a former chicken farm worker, he summed up the goal of any factory farm “... to produce the maximum quantity of edible meat, as fast and as cheaply as possible, regardless of quality, cruelty or hygiene” ( Macintyre, 2009). Factory farmers do not care about the safety of the consumers nor the safety of the chicken, all the industrial farmers have in mind are how fast they can turn a baby chick into a slaughter size chicken and how to make their chicken big and plumped. Factory farming is not only a health hazard to the well-being of the animals, but the environment, and human beings ;thus free range and sustainable farming need to be put into practice.
The animals that are raised in factory farms, and the farms are ran just like any other business. According to the article Factory Framing, Misery of Animals, the factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing cost, always at the animal’s expense. “The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection” (Factory Farming). This is actually quit disgusting that we eat food that walks around in each other’s feces and can attract disease. These animals live a life of abuse, but we sit back and say it’s okay because we will eventually eat them. “Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Research shows that factory farms widespread use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threatens human health” (Factory Farming). These animals aren’t treated with proper care and we act as if they are machines. Chickens for example, become so big and distorted that their legs can longer support them. Eventually they die because they can longer walk to get food or water. According to Factory Farming, most of these animals have been genetically manipulated to grow larger and to produce more eggs and milk than they naturally
Factory farming is raising livestock in a small, confined area on a large scale for the purpose of supplying food for human consumption. It is argued that factory farming is extremely cruel for the animals involved and that there are better ways for food to be produced. The food produced by factory farms may be cheaper, but the chances are it is also of lower quality. The animals inside these factories are not fed on a particularly healthy diet. Factory farming may lead to the production of cheaper meat produced, but this could be bad for society when the health consequences can result fatal. Factory farming should be banned worldwide because not only is it cruel toward innocent animals, it also results in economic problems and major health concerns.
The growth of the world’s population has led to a growth in animal agriculture, because as population grows, the need for food does as well. Animal agriculture is the use of animal farms to produce animal products that are then consumed by the general public. As agribusiness expands, issues such as the need for farm insurance and animal rights have received more awareness. Modern day industrialism is being applied to animal agriculture in developed nations such as the United States and Canada. Farm Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on research in agribusiness and improving the economy through agriculture, claims that “the North American livestock industry is expected to
From animal feces being in the farms all day, it gets very toxic. Keeping the animals inside fumes can kill them, even humans can not handle the toxins. Being exposed to all of these things all day can make them have health defects also. Letting animals suffer, get sick, and die daily by their own excrement when something can be done is inhumane and should not be