The cows have no say in what they have to eat so they are pretty much fed toxic garbage. Next, the food industry should be changed because each burger contains one-hundred different pieces of cows. Imagine people eating all of the cows on one farm. John White, a meat farmer, said that people are always calling him, complaining about people getting sick because of eating two bites of a burger and he is tired of it. Before, tobacco farming was very popular, but now it has changed to meat farming.
For years the industry has made efforts to convert their manufacturing process of converting animals to food from the public. But with pervasive information circulating on the internet and broad public access to computing devices, it has prompted (animal-rights) investigative journalists to channel their footage via YouTube and other video broadcasting sites. Videos like “Meet Your Meat” provide viewers with a glimpse of what goes on behind the closed doors of factory farms. Depicting graphic violence of animals being senselessly beaten, mutilated, injected without the use of antiseptics. Abattoir animals spend their entire lives in repugnant milieus, scrabbling around in their own feces and living in constant fear in crowded, confined spaces.
Although Sinclair’s investigation tells a story of the toll the meatpacking industry took on families nearly a hundred years ago, he still offers insight into the deceiving side of America’s food corruptions. Both writers brilliantly offer realization and awareness in their books that will benefit anyone who reads them to make better decisions daily. The description of the factory farming slaughterhouses in both books is enough to send chills down almost anyone’s spine; The Jungle opens with the cruel tactics, yet Fast Food Nation did not mention the slaughterhouses until midway. As Jurgis and his family tour the packinghouse where he will be working as a shoveler,(shoveling blood and guts) they first see what seems to be millions of cows. There are rail yards that carry the cattle to the slaughterhouse where the mechanics of the process are awe-inspiring.
Carter argues to support or enhance the key issues that eating meat is right based on superiority, self-consciousness, reasoning, moral capability, rights, duties, and sentience. Carter shows that the statement that animals have an interest in their own lives and that we should not treat them like things is a cornerstone in many vegetarian theories. But then he questions this argument in that even the smallest insect has an interest in its own life, but you do not see people actively opposing the killing of all living creatures. He also questions the statement that animals can even make this assertion and are not just living out of basic instinct. And, although a creature may try to stay alive, is it doing so out of the fact it doesn't want to die, or the basic instinct that it has to stay alive.
For example Muslims, Hindu, and Jewish cultures find pork to be a taboo, in India they consider the Cow to be a scared animal. Livestock has also proven to be a means of pure survival. Early man used to hunt game using parts of the animal for tools, clothing, food, and in some cases helping to build a shelter. The American Plains Indians would hunt for Buffalo again using ever part of the animal. Livestock also can have an economic value for a culture.
In the article Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Lee, the !Kung Bushmen practice shaming the meat in the form of public ridicule as a form of social leveling mechanism toward Richard Lee. When Lee gave the !Kung an ox as a Christmas gift for their assistance, the !Kung responded by insulting the gift and said that if Lee was expecting them to eat the bag of bones and that the ox is thin to the point of death even though the ox was big and fat. Although the ox was very large in size and enough to feed everyone in the tribe, the !Kung displeased with the gift in order to balance out the social equality. The !Kung jokes that they would boil down the horns for soup because there was no meat on the ox. The !Kung did not express gratitude for the ox from Lee because the !Kung believe that the gift was arrogant.
“A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat” (Rosenberger, 42). Here we can see that all sorts of animals are captured and killed for their fur (Rosenberger, 42). Killing animals for any reason is wrong, but for a material object, now that’s the worst thing. Just thinking about the skinning of an animal terrifies me, but it saddens me more to know that there are people in the world that can kill animals just for the profit that it can bring to them.
Mammals are also characterized by having hair on the skin and the female having milk-producing mammary glands that are used to nourish the young. Humans consider this nourishing of the young as breast feeding. Mammals are not only considered animals such as mice, rats, dogs, and dolphins, humans are mammals too! Mistreated Animals in the Food Industry From the meat industry's rampant abuse of animals and environmental devastation to the tremendous health benefits of a vegan diet to helping end world hunger and deplorable working conditions in slaughterhouses, there are countless reasons why more and more people are leaving meat off their plates. Some choose not
In contrast, animal welfare takes the position that it is morally acceptable for humans to use non-human animals, provided that the testing minimizes animal use and suffering. The debate between those who support animal research and those who don’t is often portrayed in such a way that one group appears to care about animals while the other group doesn’t. This isn’t the case at all. Fundamentally, the issue is about how to reduce the total suffering for both humans and animals and it can be done by raising concern over
If a doctor wants to use animals for research they have to prove that the harm of the animal equals the benefit it will give the human, also, through legislation all lab animals must be protected form cruelty of mistreatment. In addition, millions of animals are killed each year for food, does this benefit humans to the extent that animal research for life saving cures does? Surely medical research on animals is a more worthy cause of death. This is another reason why people are pro- animal testing. God made man in charge of animals and to rule over them, “rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every other living creature that moves on the ground” Many Christians do not have an issue with eating animals, as they believe that god made animals for humans to eat.