Should Large Farms Be A Limit Of Factory Farming?

In his article “Boss Hog: The Dark Side of America’s Top Pork Producer,” (Rolling Stone Magazine, December 14, 2006) Jeff Teitz reports that not only are millions upon millions of pigs being abused and slaughtered each year by America’s largest pork producer, but, in turn, the waste produced by those pigs is polluting, destroying, and even killing others. Teitz begins by revealing that Smithfield Foods, the world’s most profitable pork processor, killed 27 million hogs last year, which is roughly equivalent to the entire human populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities. As Teitz delves deeper into statistics, he explains that more fecal matter is produced from half a million pigs at one Smithfield subsidiary than the 1.5 million

• They slaughter 32,000 hogs per day (2,000 hogs an hour) and employees get infections from handling the guts so much

Typically, this is in part due to the overuse of antibiotics and the large amount of waste produced on feedlots. In Debra Miller’s book Factory Farming, it was said that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that infections relating to infected meat make around 3 million people sick each year, and said infections kill at least one thousand people annually (46). As the amount of feedlot meat consumed goes up, it is important to note that this number will dramatically increase accordingly. By the same token, CAFO meat has been found to carry deadly and dangerous diseases, as noted by Rachel Lynette saying, "Many people have become sick and even died from eating tainted meat... Some of the more serious illnesses include: salmonella, E. Coli, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CDJ), swine flu, and avian flu," (34). These diseases harm can be contracted easily among humans and can harm both physical and mental health. On the contrary, many people argue that the diseases can be controlled by administering antibiotics to animals. Michael Pollan interviewed one of these such defenders of the factory farm systems, Doctor Mel Metzin, who works as a veterinarian at a CAFO. When he asked about what would happen if drugs were banned from feedlots, he responded with, “We’d have a high death rate,” (60). It may seem that a simple fix to the contaminated meat issue is to give the

Factory farmed animals are not only poor, but also low quality. Since the animals, pigs for example, are in contact with each other so close, they are sprayed with antibiotics to keep germs from spreading. Those antibiotics are used many, many times, resulting in very low quality meat and are harmful to our human body.

Do Americans care where are pigs come from and how they are treated? If so, keep reading and you will hear about how they are being treated badly, Americans might also learn a few things. There are small and limit the soul's movement. Gestation crates should be banned from factory farming, they are, inhumane and cause physiological disorders in sows. They are getting disorders from being stuck in, crates is one reason that will be talked about here are two more Cheaper to use group housing and disease can spread faster. Gestation crates should be banned from factory farming, they are inhumane and, cause physiological disorders in sows.

Factory farming is an efficient and profitable way to make and sell meat. But there are a myriad of consequences to this system. Factory farms do whatever they can to be cost-efficient. This leads to a waste of energy, harmful effects on the environment, cruel animal treatment, and negative effects on human health, and therefore, factory farming should be abolished.

Even though higher yields are met for demand and human consumption, factory farming is cruel to animals due to the fact animals are often subject to harsh living conditions, more susceptible to diseases and injuries and are treated inhumanely during the slaughtering process. Unfortunately, with an increase in human population worldwide, the strain on farmers to meet the demand increases as well. This in turn causes more animals to be subject to this cruelty.

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 1). 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 free creatures. According to an article written by Bradley S. Miller, “As reported by a veterinarian, Dr. Bruce Feldman, When animals are intensively confined and under stress, as they are in factory farms, their auto-immune systems are weakened and they are prone to infectious diseases” (Miller 2). This quote speaks of how much the risk factors of sickness increase when animals are confined and under great amounts of stress. Overpopulated animal storage is an ethical and moral concern because it brings an unnecessary stress and a burden to animals. Not only is the storage of animals, both ethically and morally wrong, consequently, it is also a reason that disease outbreaks occur in many factory farms.

The problem with the hog farms is the inefficient disposal of the waste. There are 10 million hogs in North

Close your eyes and step into the world of an individual. You are born into a world where nights and days are never constant (attention getter). You are fed three to five times a day, but no one is there to nurture you. Not even the numerous others crammed into your living space. You grow frantic, scared, and sickly. Now open your eyes, to reality. What I have just described is one of America’s worst ghettos. You know this individual who is trapped in this environment. He is your breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is the meat you eat . Today’s farms not only abuse their animals they also produce harmful diseases and environmental hazards that affect each and every one of us, regardless of whether you consume animal products or not. The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural environments (preview of points and statement of purpose).

The implications of Porcine Stress Syndrome (PSS) and how artificial selection has played a role in its growth will be discussed. The differences of PSS in both show pigs and commercial pigs and the impact that PSS can have on both industries will be gone into detail. Also the ethical implications of doing artificial selection that humans have been doing to livestock, and looking for ways to help stop similar genetic issues to PSS that were not intentionally selected for but are present in the gene pool.

“Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide- laden corpse of a tortured animal.” says Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) PETA and animal activist. Factory farming should be banned or demolished thoroughly due to more harm than good that is being presented worldwide. Animal brutality, which can be found constantly and excessively throughout factory farms, is a deleterious act involving the animals and a diabolic act regarding human morals. The antic actions that proceed have an effect on both humans and the environment, as well as the unethical, inhumane treatment and the atrocious sufferings of animals. Besides factory farms offering a copious amount of cheaper food, factory farming is a detrimental agricultural practice to both humans and the environment. The way we receive our food is inhumane and unhealthy to humans and the environment, thus factory farms should be banned.

Factory farms have abused these animals in way that is so horrific, it is not often revealed to the public what really goes on inside these “farms.” Animals such as chickens are shoved together into battery cages to the point where they are unable to move. Their beaks are cut off without anesthesia, and they are propelled with antibiotics and excessively fed for the purpose of making their breasts larger quickly. The excessive feeding makes their bodies grow unnaturally and disproportionally – causing heart failure, respiratory troubles, chronic pain, and leg weakness; after a hen’s egg production reduces at a certain age, the bird will be shocked into its final laying cycle and then be sent to slaughter to be used as food scraps – if they are not already killed on-farm. As for mother pigs, they spend up to four months in gestation crates with only limited mobility during their pregnancy. "Her piglets are

Issues with raising pigs can include the cost of things needed to raise a pig. Animal factories farm livestock at a very high density, resulting in extremely crowded and stressful homes for the pigs that make the pigs vulnerable to illnesses. In order to keep the animal alive, antibiotics are routinely given in quantities that has caused bacteria to be resistant to them. Resistant bacteria would render antibiotics and this could mean the end of essential

The purpose of the code of welfare is to inform the owners of pigs, and people that are in contact with them, about the minimum standards that must obeyed by in order to meet there obligations under the animal welfare act 1999 (the act). There are several occurrences in this code where the stockperson/people are left to make a judgement on whether they are carrying out the animal welfare act appropriately, rather than it being prescribed. Within the minimum standards the stockperson/people are to make sure all Pigs physical health and behavioural wellbeing needs are met. New Zealand has a very small pig industry which only focuses on the domestic market , estimated at around 45,000 breeding sows are held and farmed in New Zealand. Producing roughly 70,000 pigs for slaughter each year.