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    Every year about 56 billion animals in the United States are massacred by humans. These innocent animals are slaughtered for our taste enjoyment and fashion. Pigs, cows, and chickens are being treated inadequate living conditions slaughterhouses. Instead of animals, they are treated like property and objects. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals exclaims, “On today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates

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    “It is possible, I think, to say that a Christian agriculture is formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill”- Wendell Berry (Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture). This quote speaks numbers to me. I believe that agriculture, both animals and plants, should be farmed with humility, respect and skill, as said by Wendell

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    Factory Farming Benefits

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    Pushing the Boundaries of Science: Industrial Agriculture What is Industrial Agriculture? Also known as Factory Farming, Industrial Agriculture is a modern type of agriculture, which involves high inputs of money, eliminating jobs (as well as creating pollution) by using pesticides in place of heavy machinery, and a dense population of animals raised on limited land requiring massive amounts of sustenance. (Sustainabletable.org, “Industrial Livestock Production”) FarmSanctuary.org states that Factory

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    Industrial farm pollution is becoming a large problem, which is why our country should result to organic farming. Many of today’s farms are in an industrial factory rather than a nice green pasture. These farms are looking to maximize profits and produce high quantities of food, which could potentially be a good thing, in some certain cases, but not in this one. The industrial farms have no concern for human health or the environment. They raise many health, environmental, and pesticide issues, which

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    Hungry for a Change: Factory Farms Essay

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    Everyone has heard the horror stories of what goes on in industrial agriculture, or factory farms. Animals are shoved around, in lines, all awaiting their eminent slaughter for the production of meat products. Workers throw baby pigs around and abuse the animals just because they can. Groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are adamant that the factory farms get shut down and do everything they can to get the public known of the horrors that go on. However, what most people

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    CAFO Research Paper

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    Planting grease in the soil grows money Earth is changing due to what you eat. Farming has changed drastically over the past decades. Farmers have opted to modernized farming, a quicker way to provide food to the public cheaply. Old fashion farming techniques use to consist of family tradition, each generation had a chance to own the land, work for the land, and improve the land. Now farming consist of workers who are employed from Mexico and the “wholesome” farm is now a factory. The farm that

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    cattle and soil in traditional ways that attempt to imitate the way in which nature naturally works on nutrient and energy cycling. These practices challenge the industrial agricultural model that use a high input of resources to produce large amounts of a single crops/species in designated areas known as monocultures. Monoculture agricultures relies

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    Jessica Stopa

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    In the paper titled “Factory Farming: The Truth about the Poultry Industry” by Jessica Stopa, she informs readers about the malpractices of chicken livestock in the food industry in comparison to how traditional agriculture practices were previously before the industrialization age. Her paper was intended to speak to American food consumers and bring to light or inform about the severity of industrialized farming practices. The writing was prompted by one of Ms. Stopa’s english classes and the intention

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    Industrial Farm Animal Production Introduction Industrial farm animal production (IFAP) is a recent development in the history of agriculture. This essay outlines benefits of and criticisms against IFAP, and attempts to analyse this system of production against the framework of Marxist theory. For thousands of years, domestic animals use as meat was secondary to their exploitation for renewable purposes such as milk, wool, traction, riding, and pack transport. These other purposes were prioritised

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    Industrial Farm Animal Production Industrial farm animal production (IFAP) is a recent development in how humans manage their food supply. This essay outlines benefits of IFAP, and then uses a Marxist framework to analyse the negative ramifications of this type of animal production. Using domestic animals primarily for meat is relatively recent. For thousands of years, domestic animals were exploited for renewable purposes such as milk, wool, traction, riding, and pack transport. These purposes

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