Animal Rights Against Animals

Do animals have the right to a certain quality of life? How would your views change if our cooks got treated the same way cattle and poultry do? How would you feel about them being beaten and brought to their knees just to be detained to know how to cook todays specials? You might think that the food industry has no issues and no faults behind their tasty food, but when you open up the meat curtain, there is a different kind of world out there that is cruel and inhumane. In Robert Kenner’s 2008 film, Food, Inc., He shows the conditions that cows, chickens, and pigs have to live in. The dark and closeted homes in which the animals are closely compacted together and eating, sleeping, and walking in their own manure. As a person who would consider themselves an animal rights activist, most people would agree that the food industry treats their animals like products instead of living things.

“For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form or contact with non-human animals is at meal time: we eat them. This simple fact is the key to what each one of us can do about changing these attitudes. The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment” (Coats). The most effective method to stop this cruelty is to learn about where the meat comes from, by supporting the organic and family farms which will ultimately lead to the reducing the amount of animals that have to suffer (PETA). More than 95 percent of animal abuse in America occurs in the meat packing industry (Harper & Low). Animals suffer an unimaginable amount, they are raised to be killed, then bought and then consumed. In order to help fight back against the abuse, there needs to be a cut back on the amount of meat or poultry that is consumed. Seriously consider the option of becoming a vegetarian; by not eating meat, you completely stop supporting animal

Many people who think that the way that we treat animals in the process of raising those for human consumption are wrong never stop, to think what they can do to stop this problem from further occurring. Furthermore, they make impassioned calls for more “humanely” raised meat. Instead to soothe their consciences they shop for “free range” meat, and eggs; which has no importance. Even if an animal is raised ‘free range” it still lives s life of pain and suffering that all ends with a butcher’s knife. Although many know that over 53 billion land animals are slaughtered each year for human utilization they still tend to eat this meat with no problem. The simple explanation is that many don’t care what happens to animals as long as they are eating and healthy. If they did care then they would what could be a difficult choice; to go without eating meat and selling it in any form.

As you open your mouth to take a bite out of a juicy hamburger topped with bacon, do you ever wonder what you’re actually eating? I used to not care about what happened to the animals that provided my food, just as long as I had food. It is very rare that we really know what happens to the animals as they are becoming our food. The cow and pig you are about to eat had suffered a great amount of inhumanity before being slaughtered. Animals that are living on slaughterhouse farms have been abused and mistreated in many ways. It is highly unnecessary for us to mistreat animals when they’re providing food for us.

Animals are found throughout lives of humans. As companions, entertainment, test subjects and food, animals serve vital roles throughout our lives.The Animal Bill of Rights, through the Animal Legal Defense Fund, attempts to defend the basic legal rights of all animals. However, to weigh the need for such an act, one must compare the suffering of animals to the benefits such suffering gives to humankind. It’s much more important to highlight the crucial medical advances that lab animals have provided over the injustices they may suffer, but this suffering can not and should not be ignored. It is with measure that we do not enact a bill of rights for animals, however we bring new awareness of animal research and the ethical treatment of all

Whether we think about it or not, our views on animal rights affect the choices we make every day from the foods we eat, the clothes we wear, the products we use on our skin, the medicine we take, and even the pets we may or may not keep in our home. Each of these choices hinge on our views of animal rights. Although animal rights are not a new issue we are facing here in the U.S., recent events have brought them back into the foreground. News stories like the slaying of Cecil the lion, and Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo in this past year have brought renewed interest to those of all ages thanks to social media and national press time.

Like every war there are two sides. One the INDUSTRY and two the people try to save the animals. The people have been against the industry or “factory farming” for years. Factory farming’s only goal is to make a profit and just as his grandmother refused to eat pork; people are trying so hard to protect animals because “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save”. (storytelling P17). There are many organizations like PETA (Words/Meaning P71) that will go to wild extremes to showcase the disturbing reality of how the industry treats the

Do you know 2 million animals are killed by wildlife services ? Animal rights have been a prevalent issue since 1970s. An organization called Animal Legal Defense Fund has supported a petition that strengthens the protection of animal rights. The petition states that all animals are to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse. The Animal Defense Fund is working on trying to show congress the importance of the Animal Bill of Rights. Every day, animals are being manipulated by humans to do things that they don’t want to do, or that violate their rights as living creatures on Earth. Animals and humans should have equal rights despite of their barriers . As an animal lover, I agree with the idea of creating the Bill of Rights for animals.

Consuming animal meat has been an issue that has been debated about for decades. No matter which side of the fence you are on, it cannot be denied that animals are subjected to inhumane treatment when they are used for factory farming. This practice, also called as industrial animal agriculture, produces 78% of cattle, 99.9% of chickens, 95% of pigs, and 99% of turkeys sold in the United States. The animals in factory farms are placed in cramped living spaces, do not receive proper medical care, and are killed using brutal methods.

Billions of animals are killed by human beings each year. Most of these animals live in filthy, unfavorable conditions and undergo painful procedures before being slaughtered for food or other purposes. The way that these animals are treated would never be considered ethical when applied to humans, even though animals and humans have much in common. Humans should not kill or harm animals purposefully, just as they should not purposefully harm other humans.

I researched the topic heavily after the frog incident. Doing this, I discovered the horrific conditions that innocent animals must endure in the meat and dairy industries. This instantly outraged me. One of the first documentaries I observed was called Farm to Fridge: 12 Minutes to Change Your Life. In this documentary, I learned of the horrors that the most popularly abused animals must undergo. For example, no human in their right mind could resist a baby animal. However, I learned that millions upon billions of male chicks are deemed “disposable” and released into a grinder while they are still alive. Others are placed in plastic bags and suffocated. While still horrific, this is only one of the millions of wrongdoings animals face. I was in disbelief. As someone who has always tried to believe that humans are generally good, I couldn’t fathom that so many of us supported murder, rape, and torture. So I researched some more. I read that consuming animal product has proven to be detrimental to our health. When cooking meat, chemicals called HCAs (heterocyclic amines) and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) form. Each of these have been shown to cause cancer. Once I stopped eating meat, I began to feel so much healthier. Looking toward my own pets, I just cannot see a difference between my dog and a pig. Pigs are just as playful as a puppy and they adore belly rubs. Each animal feels fear and only

Over 56 billion animals, not even including fish or sea creatures, are killed by humans a year. Over 10 billion of these animals are raised in harmful conditions to later end up slaughtered. For some reason, people think that the situation changes when it comes to animals, but it doesn’t. Yes, meat and dairy are pretty important for our health. Not only are we killing this many animals, but most don’t even die peacefully. With this, animals should at least be able to have a quick death if they are being killed to feed us rather than tortured.

All living things are capable of perceiving pain and suffering. The majority of people contribute to the senseless, merciless torture of billions of animals every year in order to eat meat. Although many people recognize the horrible torture that comes along with consuming meat, humans have grown to ignore the pain that animals go through in order to fulfill their own wants. Humans have put up a blind eye to the suffering of animals and become hypocritical in their effort to justify eating slaughtered animals. Even though a human would be horrified at the thought of eating their dog, they see no problem when it comes to eating a baby cow. Not only is eating meat morally and ethically wrong, but it promotes torture and suffering as well as harming

I don’t believe that anyone sits down to eat a steak dinner thinking about the fact that a sentient being was slaughtered and you are about to eat their meat. This disconnection with where and who our food comes from could be causing many kind people to continue promoting the consumption of animal products. Recently there seems to be a push for people wanting their meat to be slaughtered humanely. “Originally passed in 1958, the law that is enforced today by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was passed as the Humane Slaughter Act of 1978. This Act requires the proper treatment and humane handling of all food animals slaughtered in USDA inspected slaughter plants.” (Humane) Humane is defined as being characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed. Slaughter is the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food. In my opinion, those two terms do not go together very well. Whether you believe it is humane or not, slaughtering an animal for food is still killing a sentient being. On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 it was estimated that 116,000 cattle were slaughtered under Federal Inspection. (Estimated) Within factory farms overcrowded conditions can lead to animals having higher stress, lower immunity, and become more susceptible to diseases. (Bhumitra)

Humans share nurturing and pain. In the same way, animals were created to express emotions. Yet, there are mammals who are denied freedom. For a person to be ripped away from their comfortable homes, to be placed in a slaughter house leaves a treacherous image. Imagine a room filled with naked individuals awaiting their death, similar to the genocide of the Holocaust. Billions of farm animals undergo this exact situation yearly. American vegans strive for carnivores to change their eating habits and rid their lives of the corruption popular corporations have on human health, animal abuse, and false advertising.