There was very little ventilation, almost no windows to let light in, only two big fans to ventilate the house, and the chickens could barely move due to the lack of available space because so many where crammed in there. I will never forget the farmer telling the camera that is not unusual for the chicken to not be able to walk more than a couple of feet, because their muscles cannot support the weight of their upper bodies due to the fact that they have growth hormones in their feed so they would develop faster. Unfortunately with the costs of having and operating a farm, farmers like the one interviewed and many others, no matter how much they disagree with the methods they cannot stop receiving financial support from the big name companies like Tyson in order to survive and make a
Dogs confined in small wire cages for their entire lives, fed inadequately, kept in unheated buildings, and denied basic veterinary care. The breeding dogs are sick, wounded, and malnourished, and their lives are miserable. When their breeding usefulness is over, they may be killed or dumped. Large-scale mills do not take their older dogs to shelters, because they don’t want to draw attention to themselves. According to The Humane Society of the United States, there may be as many as 10,000 puppy mills operating across the United States.
The act in which no company apologized for until this day. The movie is definitely not for the faint of heart! There are horrible statistics that will make you think we are all doomed paired with videos that will make you cringe. Videos like herds of dirty feces covered pigs squealing helplessly as they are being pushed to their grim final destination on the “kill floor” in a slaughterhouse called Smithfield. A company where they also push half-alive cows around with forklifts.
While looking at the stuffing I saw the cow that had been killed to make the ground beef and wondered what conditions the cow had been living in and what the people had been feeding the cow. Looking at the ham I knew now after reading “Omnivore’s Dilemma” that they are not feeding these pigs the best foods that will make them healthy to eat and I know like the cows the pigs are not living in the best living conditions either which make me worry. The same goes for the turkey as well because these turkeys are not feed what they would normally eat in the wild they are feed corn and other foods that they would not normally eat, making these animals less healthy than if they were given foods that they would normally have eaten in the wild. These thoughts had never gone through my mind when I was about to eat anytime of the year let alone thanksgiving, so it felt pretty strange. I still at ham and mashed potatoes and of course turkey because you cannot not have turkey on thanksgiving because it is the staple dish but the dish that I did not have was stuffing.
The Horrors of Factory Farming Synopsis Factory farming is a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions. In other words factory farming is horrible, it’s degrading, and it’s downright sick. Animals forced to live in these kinds of conditions is just outrageous. Animals have to live in cramped conditions and with unhealthy food and they hardly ever get to see the light of day. Cows are forced to live the majority of their lives on hard concrete flooring usually developing painful sores on their feet and joints.
Animals are being pushed further and further into insanity and then being blamed for their behavior, when in reality, it’s only natural for them to act aggressively. They are being attacked by their own species. They are taken from their families and forced to give a flawless performance multiple times a day. It is barbaric. The film shows a scene where a baby orca is taken from her mother and all the mom is left to do is weep in the corner by herself for her newborn kin.
Her refrigerator was destroyed and they had not prepared well for the storm so all they had to eat were a few cans of peas that were in the basement. It was Kathleens least favorite food and other food was not accessible because the supermarkets were destroyed as well. Kathleen quickly realized that she would be very hungry for a few weeks. Her need for nourishment was at risk. As for safety, her house was completely destroyed with no walls being left intact.
Horse slaughter is no where near the same as putting a horse down, it is the painful butchering of these innocent animals. The sad part is most horses that are shipped out are still young and would have a good chance of being placed in a loving home. These people just don't want to be bother by a horse they don't need so they shipped it off to a slaughter house to be killed. These horses have no way of getting out of the slaughter house alive, as soon as the horse arrives there you pretty much can say its already dead. Before arriving at the slaughter house horses travel thousands of miles with no food, no water, and no rest over a period of days in overcrowded trucks designed
Right now, billions of animals are locked in small cages so that they can't even stretch their limbs, or turn around, or are crowded into large sheds, tens of thousands of them in each shed, unable ever to go outside or enjoy fresh air and sunshine. As an active member of PETA, I Boycott this inhumane system of production. I Don't buy factory farmed meat, eggs or dairy products. I buy as much local produce when can. I try to reduce my greenhouse gas emissions by using public transport, walking or riding
Many animals also died from lack of care when the owners left or died of the disease, sheep and cattle roamed about, wandering in fields and through the growing harvest, and there was no one to drive them off or collect them; but in ditches and thickets they die in innumerable quantities in every part, for lack of guardians; for so great a dearth of servants and labourers existed that no one knew what to do. As there was no one to remove the sick or dead animals from the herd, diseases would have run rampant killing as much as the plague killed humans (Gasquet, 1908, pp. 163). Both of these things together, the loss of crops and cattle, eventually led to an increase in malnutrition and starvation on a large scale. Starvation is not where it stops though.