Factory Farm Morally Wrong Essay

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In this paper I will be arguing that eating meat from a factory farm is morally wrong. First I will discuss the horrendous process that animals have to go through just so you can have some meat at the store. Then I will argue why these conditions are morally wrong, due to the animal’s unnatural living conditions just for a farmer to maximize his profit. I will also discuss some objections to it being a morally wrong act.
When you go to the store, you purchase some kind of poultry or perhaps beef. Do you know where this meat came from? For most people the answer to that question would be no. Did that animal have a long life or maybe a short life? Was it de-beaked? Did it live in a dirty, unnatural environment?
To answer those questions, the animal that you got those chicken breasts from often have a very short lived, miserable life. There life starts by being crammed into a small shed that has no windows to allow light in. Each bird is then crammed into a cage with multiple other birds and then that cage is stacked on top of another cage of birds, which I also beside other cages full of …show more content…

For instance, de-beaking, the farmer cuts off the beak of the bird to keep it from killing other birds and eating them. The use of the de-beaking process to save the farmer money in lost livestock; however, this is painful to the bird. In the beak of the bird there is a soft tissue that resembles the quick of a dog nail or human nail. I cut my dog’s nails, and one day I cut her nail too short. I accidently cut part of the quick in her nail. She immediately yelped and pulled her paw away from me. This is an example why this soft tissue being cut is painful to animals. Imagine that someone is cutting your nails and they take off half of your fingernail. You will be in pain and will start to bleed. This is the same pain that a bird would feel when you cut off its

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