What Are The Arguments Against Animal Cruelty

Our nation’s industrial farming has become more than just feeding people; it has become a way for the food industry to make more money as human population continues to grow. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Eating Animals, illustrates the effects factory farming has had on animals meant for human consumption. Furthermore, Foer asks many questions to the reader on what will it take for us to change our ways before we say enough is enough. The questions individuals need to be asking themselves are: how do we deal with the problem of factory farming, and what can people do to help solve these issues? Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, also illustrates the animal abuse that goes unseen within the food industry as well as Bernard Rollin and Robert Desch in their article “Farm Factories”, both demonstrate what is wrong today with factory farming. Foer gives such examples of employees who work in slaughterhouses giving accounts of what goes on in the kill floors, and stories of employees who have witnessed thousands and thousands of cows going through the slaughter process alive (Animals 231). Namit Arora in the article “On Eating Animals”, as well as Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, both address some of the issues that animals face once they hit the kill floor. The food industry has transformed not only how people eat, but also the negative effects our climate endures as a result of factory farming as illustrated by Anna Lappe in “The Climate Crisis at the End

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.

Animal Cruelty is a problem that many ignore. People are oblivious to these animals and the negligence their owners show. Animal cruelty is an underlying problem in today’s society, and the only way to counteract these problems, is for this generation to do something about it.

The treatment of animals on slaughterhouse farms get treated like they have no use, when they are of great use to humans. Animals should not get treated like they are useless. The workers that treat animals poorly need to be fired. They are being inhumane and unreasonable. Those animals that are suffering are doing it to provide a meal on millions of people’s tables. The way we kill animals makes no sense. Think about being in those animals positions. What would you want to change if people were skinning you alive, or pounding your head to the ground so you’ll die?

Key to the current state of America’s meat industry, according to Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is the fact that it is primarily hidden from the consumer. The consumer, as well as corporations, have chosen to build walls instead of demanding transparency. The general public and journalists are not permitted to enter abattoirs of many corporations, leaving the judgement of how animals should be slaughtered to the businesses themselves. State and federal regulations are not often put into practice as they should be, enabling the corporation to decide what is ‘humane’ and what is not. Handing this judgement to a profit organisation enables the corporation to find the most efficient and most lucrative system, ignoring

America’s meat industry hides from the consumer, according to Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The consumer, as well as corporations, have built walls instead of demanding transparency. Journalists and the general public are not permitted to enter abattoirs of many corporations, leaving the judgement of slaughtering methods to the businesses themselves. State and federal regulations aren’t always enforced, thus corporations decide what is ‘humane’. Profit organisations find the most efficient and lucrative system, yet ignore the secondary costs to natural systems. Pollan argues that in preventing abuse, only transparency holds businesses accountable to regulations. He states in Omnivore’s Dilemma, ‘No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do’. Many Americans would disagree because they are ignorant of the system. We have chosen not to see what really happens to the animals we eat, understandably, due to the unpleasant truths Pollan uncovers. As a summary, slaughterhouses kill a steer by stunning it, hanging it upside down by its leg and bleeding it out by cutting its throat. However, (according to McDonald’s) they accept a five percent error rate, meaning when the first ‘stunning’ does not kill the animal, the steer continues along the conveyor belt for processing. Animal rights group’s accounts have revealed that live animals have been skinned alive and go through immense suffering. Despite the

Walking through your local grocery store, such as Kroger’s, you will see the isle filled of poultry, with variation from chicken, beef, veal, and steak. People often question the high cost of the meats and their quality, but do they ever question where their meat is coming from or how it was processed? I would assume the answer is no. In the New York Times article “U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit” we are introduced to the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) and exposed to their inhumane experiments being used on our livestock’s, which in turn is the meat we buy in our stores. Although some experts such as Robert R. Oltjen, the center’s director, argue that humans are superior to

According to the anthropologist Professor Henry Bunn of Wisconsin University the use of animals for food dates back to two million years ago, when, “our human ancestors were small brained ape-men” (McKie, 2012). The use of animals for a source of food, clothing, and even entertainment is not something new to us. But what is fairly new are the animal rights movement groups as well as legislation that have formed in the last century to protect the rights of animals and preventing animal cruelty in slaughter. There are specific movements and laws such as the 1958 Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the 2015

Throughout history many arguments have arose concerning the matter of Factory Farming and the way we obtain our meat. But it is now, in early times, that the well-being of the animals are being observed. People started to witness the inhumane treatment of the animals before they were slaughtered. In the novel, “Eating Animals” the author Jonathan Safran Foer discuss the different ways the animals are abused along with the living conditions of the animals. Make no mistake I’m not trying to convince anybody to stop eating meat because I wouldn’t be practicing what I preach

There is a large problem of animal cruelty linked to the food industry in the United States. Countless slaughterhouses, chicken farms, and other meat producers have been found guilty of harming animals and killing them inhumanely. This is something that clearly needs to change.

Can you imagine being forcefully impregnated and having your children ripped from you hours after birth? Can you imagine being stuck in a dark cage without enough room to turn your body around for your whole life? Can you imagine being forcefully fed so much that you can’t support your grotesque weight on your own two legs? For billions of animals this is a reality which they will have to endure their whole lives because they are living in a factory farms. In the entire world, around two in every three farm animals are captive to this cruel and inhumane industry. That means that only a third of animals are like those happy cows grazing in the field like you see in milk adverts. This number will definitely increase as developing countries try to “modernise” their animal farming approach to maximise profit. Cruelty isn’t even the only dreadful factor about them factory farms are one of the biggest producers of pollutants in the world. They are one of the biggest problems of the 21st century but everyone is happy to turn a blind eye as long they don’t judged for stuffing their face with meat and washing it down with milk not meant for human consumption. We need to cut down on our devouring of animal products before it devours Earth.

“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.

The most popular argument made against researching on animals is that it is cruel and inhumane. The methods researchers use on animals are very painful. Animals used in experiments are commonly force-fed, forced inhalation of any substance, food and water deprived, prolonged periods of restraint, and purposely caused burns and other wounds to study the healing process. A test that shows its cruelty towards animals is the Draize test. This test involves rabbits; the rabbits are used to evaluate the eyes reaction to cosmetic products. This test involves having the rabbit’s eyelids being held open by clips for multiple days so they wont blink away the product. The test is used to measure

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)

Many animals all across the United States of America, such as pigs, chickens, turkeys, and cattle, are being slaughtered food in manmade factories with more than inadequate conditions provided while raising these animals. It is a moral outrage what is being done each day. Ethically there is an argument that is long lasting through years of philosophers and ethicists studies which continuously brings about the question is it morally and ethically okay for humans to annihilate other species for their own benefit. And if so is it morally right for these animals to be kept in inhumane conditions until they are slaughtered. Three ethicists with influential reasoning and intense thought and research have claimed what they believe is morally acceptable. Rene Descartes claims that animals are not conscious beings therefor one should not feel morally bad for the slaughter of animals in farms since they aren’t aware of actions happening around them. Descartes presented this claim in the 17th century and it was the first recorded argument one had against animals being conscious (Inter). The next ethicist that makes good argument for the murder of animals is Immanuel Kant. Kant claims animals are un-able to perform acts of good will. Therefor animals do not have intrinsic value so it isn’t wrong to murder animals (Inter). Peter Singer is another ethicist that makes a good argument on why we should feel morally wrong in the murder of millions of animals. Singer claims that