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
Each day hundreds pass away or more appropriate term murdered. Australian puppy mills are far worse than cruel and there are hundreds of words to use to describe a puppy mill. Thousands of dogs kept in small cramped cages that hurt their feet . Their own feces replaces their fur along with the feces others above and in the same cage. Surrounded with filth with no escape.
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.
Once an animal is confined within the farm it could be eating things that it is not accustomed to. Another ethical problem that derives from factory farming is that everything is done on the animal’s expense. Most of us look at these animals, and think about the food that we’ve had originates from them. We rarely think about their experience living in the factory farms. What ever happened to the large outdoor farms, where these animals could live in a normal environment and raise their families?
Mystery Meat I am researching the conditions of meat packing plants to explore the constant high rate of food-borne illnesses. Also, how the treatment of the animals at the slaughterhouses contribute to food-borne illnesses. Throughout my research I have discovered many disturbing and horrifying truths about the treatment of the animals at slaughterhouses. The high demand of meat annually in the United States is astounding, mainly demanded by fast food corporations. In the United States one million animals are slaughtered every hour and around ten billion farm animals will be raised and slaughtered annually.
For example, this corn is fed to pigs to give people thicker bacon. Just imagine someone eating two-hundred pounds of contaminated meat every day; nobody could tolerate that. The food industry is selling sick cows to people for money. They are killing cows who are just trying to find a place to peacefully graze on the earth. The cows have no say in what they have to eat so they are pretty much fed toxic garbage.
Cattle were often left dead and rotting among the other cattle, in the pens, and where they grazed. Horses were also sometimes used after they had died and ground into fertilizer. This was also true for pigs, goats, sheep, and lamb. When they were packaged, diseased or not, the consumer would rarely get what they paid for. A pound of lamb could have easily been a goat, canned meats were usually and still are to this day a smorgasbord of normally unusable animal parts, and for a period of time beef was substituted with horse.
Farmers believed they could raise more livestock indoors in cramped quarters. But that soon became an issue because of disease. Over the years factory farming has become cruel and unjust not to mention unsafe for animals and for those humans who consume these animals from factory farming. Factory farming is inhumane; animals are being drugged, slaughtered and kept in cages until they have reached full maturity, then slaughtered and sold for human consumption. This act towards animals, have two sides.
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
learned the following information after watching the Food Inc. documentary film: 1) Farm owners treat the livestock and poultry in their farms in a horrifying and sickening manner; 2) Farm workers are also being abused by the farm owners and made to work in farms where the minimum standards of safety are not being met; 3) The food products being sold in the market such as the chicken, pork and tomato and others are being fed artificial food so that they grow faster and become bigger, and fatter in lesser period of time; 4) Processed food are basically and ultimately come from the same product which is corn; 5) There is a new strain of E. coli which causes illness to 73,000 Americans and death to thousands more; 6)More Americans now have diabetes