By definition, factory farming involves animals stored in cramped, hot, disease ridden cages, crates or other confined spaces to produce eggs or other foods for humans to consume. The definition of this debate is whether factory farming should be put to an end. I am supporting the fact that it should indeed be put to an end. Why? #1 point, cruelty Well, first of all, About 500 million land animals now in the Thailand are raised for dairy, meat and eggs each year and they all got killed in more than 400 slaughterhouses from the factory farming that are exist around the country.
Within only one year of the book being published, tons of copies were sold. One of the people who had read the book was President Theodore Roosevelt. When he read Upton Sinclair’s book he was utterly disgusted about the conditions of these meat packing plants and realized something had to be done to make the meat packing plants cleaner so the meat wouldn’t be extremely inedible. This caused the Pure Food and Drug Act. It also allowed The Meat Inspection Act to be passed in 1906.
The King tried implementing several policies to increase the food supply, such as price controls on livestock and restrictions on the production of ales and other products made from the limited supply of grain. None of these policies worked, because there simply was just not enough food (32). People hoped the harvest of 1315 would be the end of it, but heavy rainfall in 1316 continued the hunger. The shortage of food became so severe that paupers were forced to eat dead bodies of cattle to survive. People from Northern France are rumored to
Mad Cow Disease was first recognized as an infectious disease in 1986 after it began to appear in cattle in Great Britain in 1985. It was made clear that the animals became infected because of eating pieces of cow and sheep in their bone meal (food). The British government outlawed the feeding of bone meal in order to halt the spread of the disease. It is normal and healthy for cattle to be fed soybean meal as a part of their diet. In England, soybeans don’t grow well, so British farmers fed their cattle an
Throughout history, it is evident that just one individual has the power and ability to bring about change on a grand scale. Upton Sinclair and Susan B. Anthony are prime examples of people in American history who found a flaw in society and worked endlessly to invoke change. Sinclair sought change in the unsanitary meat packing industry, and Anthony sought women’s suffrage. Upton Sinclair brought about lasting change in the meatpacking industry of the United States with his book, The Jungle. Upon his visit to Chicago to do research for a book that was meant to show the nation how the labor of men and women are exploited for profit, Sinclair stumbled on the disgusting conditions in meatpacking factories.
One of my friends used to eat meat and only ate vegetables because he was made to. Then one day we were eating at a barbeque place and he said that he could not eat it. He stared with a perplexed look on his face then told me that it did not taste good anymore and we left. That was the last time he ever ate meat. Because of this incident, my friend became a vegetarian and has been one for the last five years.
The main diet was bully beef (canned corned beef), bread and biscuits. However, the supplies often ran low and he soldiers suffered from malnutrition. This was just the beginning of their problems. There were no toilets for the British soldiers. They had to use their tins and duck behind the sheds in the trenches.
Of the 10 billion at least 6 billion are derived from broiler chickens, which are killed after 9 short weeks of life. Laying hens are kept 5 or 6 to a 14 square inch cage. As many as 20% die from stress and disease from living conditions. At least ½ of 10 million milk cows live on factory farms in conditions that cause tremendous suffering to the animals Cows of the 90’s lived only about 4-5 years as apposed to a life expectancy of 20-25 years. To keep animals at high levels of productivity farmers keep them pregnant constantly through artificial insemination.
They are born and only given enough food to keep them alive, the capable animals are worked to the bone, and once useless they are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. ‘’No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.’’ Old Major wants this misery and slavery to stop and for the animals to live freely. As the land was not ‘poor’, it was fertile and the climate was good, they were capable of affording an abundance of food to support a large amount of animals. They could live in comfort but yet they continued in miserable conditions, with their produce being stolen by man. ‘’Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.’’ He says that they could become rich and free overnight.
It is proven that livestock have happier lives when not factory farmed. Body Paragraph #3- Local farmers raise their livestock in a more “natural” environment, unlike the concrete buildings and feedlots that factory farms use due to lack of space and maximum quantities. According to farm sanctuary and several other studies poor sanitation and poor management of animals waste can lead to contamination of food bought in stores by bacteria like e coli and salmonella about 76 million Americans become ill from food borne illness and thousands die and that is only Americans. Another example would be swine flu and avian flu and that's caused by overcrowding of pigs, chickens, turkeys and ducks. This is because how they live in the waste and how the waste is stored.