Slaughterhouse Industry

Factory farming is a practice that is used to keep up and sustain the supply and demand for different types of animal meat. A poultry factory farm that will be discussed is Perdue Farms. Perdue Farms is established and operated in the United States and has a processing facility where they raise and slaughter chickens. Perdue Farms is meeting the needs of the consumers by supplying and mass producing poultry for consumption. One may view this of being a success by having a well-established, profitable business that is fulfilling their responsibilities to the consumers. While that may be true, they are not fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the animals. These animals are in close quarters where they are nested in urine and feces. There can even be instances where they will be sitting on or near deceased chickens until their cage is chosen for slaughter. Since these animals are massively produced the use of hormones and antibiotics are used to sustain life and growth. On top of the poor, dirty living conditions these animals are also giving additives that will eventually make it to the consumer. The process has an impact on those employed by the corporation and those who purchase products from them.

The conditions for animals in modern slaughterhouses are unsanitary and violent. The lack of rules and regulations cause animals to be treated poorly because this industry is focused on mass production and profit rather than finding a more humane alternative to run the meat packing business. The most effective method to stop this cruelty is to learn about where meat comes from, start supporting the organic and family farms which will ultimately lead to the reducing the amount of animals that have to suffer.

In the article America’s Food Crisis and how to fix it by Bryan Walsh it talks about how people are packing in animals into confined pens with a bunch of other animals of its kind. All the animals are dosed with antibiotics to keep from getting sick. The article explains that the waste that the animals produce on the factory farms gets disposed into open air lagoons and how it can contaminate nearby streams and creeks.

Discoveries can be confronting and provocative. From this, we can be exposed to disturbing images that make us question our societal values. In ‘The Meatworks’, Gray quickly establishes this unwelcoming nature of discoveries through the explicitly derogatory description of the abattoirs processes and it’s accompanied workers. This is evident through the use of provocative imagery in “arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not”. From this depiction, we are exposed to the merciless treatment of the of the +pigs as they lose their identity. The fact that the machine never stops grinding whether there is meat in there or not denotes such a sense of insensitivity towards the process, causing the reader to feel distressed and guilty of the slaughter.  A degree of insensitivity is also presented to the reader through the recurring motif of blood, an idea that is central to the poem. “Stench of blood…chomping

Most people do not take a second thought about where their food came from. Whether it be chicken, steak, or pork, the meat was most likely raised in a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). Hundreds to thousands of animals in horrid conditions from birth to slaughter at these factory farms. While damaging animals, CAFOs also damage the environment and the effects of these farms are worsening, with more farms resorting to these methods. Popular brands using these methods include global producers like Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods. The United States Department of Agriculture defines a CAFO as an Animal Feeding Operation that houses “...more than 1000 animal units...” (nrcs.usda.gov). These “units” are later defined as “...an animal

Slaughter houses started in urban areas close to the railroads and shipping ports. Cattle and other livestock arrived by railroad. After the animals were slaughtered, they would be shipped to meat counters around the country and overseas. In his book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes about the changes in the meatpacking industry. Among those changes, Schlosser explains, Iowa Beef Packers (IBP) changed the entire meatpacking industry by turning the business of slaughtering animals into an assembly line. Meatpacking no longer requires skilled workers because each employee is only responsible for one small part of the whole; therefore, training an employee is easy and inexpensive (153). The meat packing

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Food factories are very disgusting places because of the way they kill animals. People are unaware of the conditions that these animals live in before they are killed and shipped to stores and restaurants. Each year in the United States

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

As this is the piece of land in which the feedlot is located there are many environmental factors and possible issues that come into play. Thus far they have done well in managing their environmental impact and sustaining the land but there are a few areas that need to be address through this study.

Therefore, the aim of the film is to show audiences the process of how their meat is prepared, stored and transported around W.A. However, the aim to not portray meat or meat wholesalers in a negative light but to inform audiences of

This treatment of animal waste is dangerous and could lead to serious consequences. For example, the organoarsenicals in fertilizer are consumed by poultry, high levels of arsenic are found in the tissue of animals, and then poultry waste is used as a fertilizer. The incineration causes arsenic to be released into the air, this is an issue for communities surrounding the area. This constant entrance of organoarsenicals into the environ-ment causes a risk for soil and groundwater becomes of less quality. In the United States 61% of farmers sell litter based fertilizers and 23% use their own animal waste as soil fertilizer (Kiranma-yi). The use of animal waste as fertilizer is a positively impactful option for the environment when treated with care and managed properly. It is easier to manage on small farms as the farm-ers can simply move their animals around the acreage spreading the waste equally. This technique keeps the waste light on one spot allowing it to not overwhelm the soil. However, it is also crucial to consider the chemicals inside the waste, and currently it is not cost effective for large scale farmers or CAFOs to use environmentally friendly fertilizers and animal feed. Farmers also put antibiotics into their animals to speed up growth, these antibiotics contribute to the waste prob-lem (Tasho). They pass through the animal

The hog slaughtering plant located in Brendon, Manitoba has the capacity to slaughter 2.5 million hogs per year, around 50,000 per week and 10,000 per day. Hogs arrive at the slaughter plant from all over Manitoba and certain parts of Saskatchewan by trucks. Every farm is located within a different distance from the slaughter facility and delivery lead times vary from as low as half an hour to as high as three and a half hours.

The creation of cultured meat will reduce that environmental problems currently happening due to the traditional livestock industry; if the production of meat continues to be done in the traditional way in coming years, there will be no enough food or water for the population. As mention by Dickson D, Despommier, “as population increases this will soon cause that farmers to run out of land” (A farm on Every Floor, 2009).

This article talks about the problems with manure on factory farms. They generate so much manure that the “lagoons” the manure is kept in can leak or have runoff which contaminates the ground and the water. This manure is also very bad for the air. Workers and people living near these factory farms are at risks for many health problems including respiratory illnesses.