Factory Farming Vs. Beef Cows

Those with queasy stomachs will not want to watch the video that accompanies the article by Tom Philpott. It shows the everyday life of pigs that are being bred and kept in very close quarters. The gestating female pigs are confined to a crate that is 2 feet wide by 7 feet long. They literally cannot turn around. The video shows bloody pigs with scratches along their bodies, it shows endless rows of these steel crates in long buildings in Oklahoma, and the video camera zooms in on the horrific damage that is done to these animals to force them to reproduce.

In conclusion, cows have survived many centuries because of the adaptations the cow has made. So next time you see a cow, think how complex this creature really is.

On many farms in the United States, it is common to utilize hormones and other additives on cattle in factory farms. Farms often feed animals hormones to quicken the slaughtering process. Although the factory farms sell a surplus amount of cattle to stores, cattle are being treated unfairly and inhumanely. Cattle in farm factories are subject to the injection of hormones, harsh environments and poor physical treatment. Due to the utilization of hormones, abuse of cows and monopolization of cattle factories livestock farms, cows are deprived of basic needs and suffer physical trauma.

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.

The cows receive awful diets that strain the cows’ bodies. Cows receive grain diets. The grain diets make them feel awful. The grain diets may make them ill, cause pain, and kill them. The calves used for veal receive bare minimum for food. Farmers give cows milk replaces which leads to their bodies wearing out quicker (Capps). Farmers give the cows unnatural diets which causes them to disorders like ketosis and laminitis. Due to the poor diets, cows suffer from Milk Fever, calcium deficiency. Many farmers give cows Bovine Growth Hormone so female cows produce bigger loads of milk. Bovine Growth Hormone causes calf birth defects. It also causes pain for the cows. The calves receive poor nutrients. Most butchers kill calves within 16-20 weeks of their birth and the farmers mistreat cows before their death (Capps). The diets consist of little fiber. Due to little fiber, cows have a lot of stomach pain and inflammation. Many cows receive diets consisting of corn because

Many people have the belief that feedlots mistreat their cattle, keep them in confined spaces, feed them nothing but corn, and abuse them. Farmers and ranchers work day and night and spend large amounts of time and money to ensure that their animals are cared for in the best way possible. In the end if cattle aren’t comfortable in their environment the product they provide us with will be effected in a negative way. There is a great deal of care that goes into cattle operations from the time calves are born, till they are moved to a larger feedlot, then to a slaughterhouse, and eventually to our plates. Whether or not a person chooses to eat beef or not is completely up to them. But either way, people should know the facts about where their food comes from and have an educated opinion on why they believe the beef industry is good or bad.

In analyzing this system, we must first find out what factory cattle farming is and how bovine becomes food. Cattle factory farming's main purpose is to produce the most amount of cattle for least amount of price. However, when something cattle slaughtering is increasing at a rapid rate there are bound to be unintended consequences. To ensure rapid detection of cattle from long distances, ranchers cut parts of the

Jumping into the tangled lives of cows, the reality of the hidden life of cows will truly come into view. Major aspects of the cow, such as personalities, emotions, similarities in life, the comparison between cows and humans, and relationships will come in to view. These aspects in this manner will be explained.

The agriculture industry, focusing on the dairy cattle industry, in the U.S.A. is humane and non-abusive. The Dairy Industry raises, breeds, and milks female dairy cattle. The cows are either bought from calf farms or born at the dairy in which they are raised to be about one or two years old until they are bred by a bull of their same breed. Then, once the heifers give birth, they are put into the milking process. According to “How much milk do cows give?”, these cows will produce anywhere from 18,000 pounds of milk per year to a record breaking 72,000 pounds per year. America has the fourth highest average milk production records which is 21, 335 pounds per year as of 2015(1). These cows are milked twice a day during their “fresh period” which is the 10 months after having a calf in which they are being milked. The cows then rest for two months and are bred and milked for another 10 months. Overall, milking cows in America live in the dairy industry for about six or seven years until they die naturally or are killed off due to being not profitable to the dairy world. Animals are used in the agricultural commodity industry due to their uses and lack of rights.

Animal welfare, factory farming more specifically, is one of the reasons for the substantial amount of impurity and contamination in our environment as well as the deploring quality of the consumer's personal health. My aspiration would be to persuade people to purchase less poultry, and meats from these polluting factories so that the demand and supply would decrease in quantity. Supporting this would result in less pollution and healthier diets for victims who suffer severely from life threatening diseases, and also lead to environmental changes that would be beneficial in many ways. Assisting the subside of water scarcity and diminishing the abundance of unhealthy eating habits would form into an outcome favorable for many people.

Cattle are the most important farm animals because they provide the most. They provide meat, dairy and their hides. Cattles’ meat is important because it gives us protein and since the cow has a lot of stomachs they provide a lot of meat. There are also different types of beef cattle. There are the Beefmaster, Angus, Belgian blue, Belted galloway, Zebu, Chianina, Charolais, and the White face. Now these are just some of them there are a lot more, but the two most common beef cattle are the Beefmaster and the White face. Dairy from a

Then there are cattle that are raised for beef. The cows that are raised for beef are subject to branding for identification, which is preformed with a hot iron pressed into their flesh. They also have their horns cut or burned off of them (PETA Beef 1). These cows also receive very little veterinary care and result in death from infections or injury (PETA Beef 2). The cows are also fed a highly unnatural diet to fatten them up, causing digestive

William’s paper addresses the moral risk that is posed when people decide to intentionally remain ignorant to avoid a possible ethical crisis. She then elaborates on how this choice manifests itself in four different types of affected ignorance. She bases her belief that factory farming is wrong using deontology and utilitarianism because animals deserve respect as well as the ability to exist without pain that is atypical from a natural life. Her argument is that when we chose affected ignorance, we then become subject the possibility of “moral risk” if we identify that factory farming is morally wrong and continue to support it. I agree with her argument, but believe that it could be strengthened by developing the idea of how affected ignorance is a symptom of being weak willed.

The poor housing of farm animals in factory farms is an issue because the stress factors and living conditions can cause the animals immune systems to weaken. According to an article about the practices of factory farming “Common practices include packing pregnant pigs into gestation crates so small they cannot turn around, placing egg-laying hens in cages stacked on top of one another in massive enclosed buildings and raising cows on feedlots rather than the grass pastures many of us associate with ruminants” (Anomaly). This quote explains that the living space of animals in a factory farm is different from what consumers expect. When consumers go to the grocery store, they may see a picture of an old country farm with animals freely wondering, but in reality animals are stored as items and not living and breathing creations. According to an article written by Bradley S. Miller “As reported by a veterinarian,

When the cows mature, they are forcefully impregnated every 7 months into their pregnancy so that they will keep on producing milk because cows do not produce milk year round. The average cow today produces around 100 pounds of milk per day. That is 10 times more than they did a few decades ago. This is due to selective breeding, inducing growth hormones, feeding high energy feeds which cause lameness, metabolic disorders, and eventually death, etc. Producing so much milk is extremely stressful to the cow, and the energy used every day to make it is like a human jogging for 6-7 hours a day,