Factory Farming: The Mistreatment Of Animals

Since factory farms were invented in 1926, the workers have been feeding their animals large amounts of food so when they slaughter them, they have a lot of meat or fatness to put to the public. The amount of food they feed their animals is tremendous. When a pig is born, it weighs about two pounds, but within a year, they weigh about two-hundred sixty pounds. In 1966 is where the pigs would weigh much less than today("Factory Farming"). Many of the animals who are inhabited in factory farms are severely abused and people should recognize this because nowadays, animal rights activists are making animals equal to humans. If a human was being abused like an animal, that would be considered a problem, but animals are equal to us, so they should …show more content…
“Poultry farming now is entirely different from what it was when I was a farm kid in Oregon with our family flock of chickens. Today’s business model is infinitely more efficient, but it also raises environmental concerns such as antibiotic overuse and is fundamentally oppressive for animals and farmers alike”(Kristof). Animals being drugged is downright wrong; it can alter some of the animals’ health and wellbeing. Another mind boggling fact that has happened inside the farm walls is that antibiotics that are being used in animal farms destroys all bacteria. This is bad because not all bacteria in one’s body is a bad one. There are bacterias that help one’s health and when that is destroyed, that can lead to a weaken immune system. “In the United States this year, almost nine billion chickens will be dangled upside down on conveyor belts and slaughtered; when the process doesn’t work properly, the birds are scalded alive”(Kristof). For anyone to see chickens’ heads getting chopped off on a conveyor belt and doing absolutely nothing about it is truly sickening. What is even worse is dangling the chickens by the feet and dumping their heads in boiling hot water. For one to see that and have no emotion shows how little the United States has progressed in rights for all, including animals. Clearly, this needs to stop because this is absolute torture. “[A] video shows images of a grotesque …show more content…
An example would be,“Walk into a butcher shop and I guarantee you’ll see a cut or type of meat you can’t find at the average grocery store. Not only that, it will have been humanely slaughtered, properly cut and stored. You won’t find chicken breasts plumped with saline water or vibrantly red steaks gassed with carbon monoxide. And you definitely won’t find pink slime, ever”(Says). Since one won’t find any problems with the meat, the positive thing others believe about butcher shops is that they clean and take care of meat unlike grocery stores. They wash it multiple times a day and make sure that that they are selling to the public is healthy. However, the workers are putting the public’s health at state. For example, “According to a 2011 study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers have found that almost half of all raw meat in American supermarkets contains staph infection bacteria, including MRSA, which is potentially lethal. Turkey, pork, and chicken products (in that order) were most likely to harbor staph”(Myers). Since the animals are raised in unsanitary conditions that are filthy, the diseases must have not washed away completely when they cleaned the animals for export. This would not be a problem if the factory farm workers did not raise them in disgusting pens. “The deli slicer, and the cold cuts that it