GARMENT FACTORY TRAGEDY IN BANGLADESH Bangladesh‚ the world’s second largest garment exporter‚ earns more than 10 per cent of its GDP from readymade garment factories. The country has about 4‚500 factories‚ employing around 4million people. But worker in garment work at a very law price and in a very insecure condition taking the risk of life. Moreover this readymade garment sector has become a death trap for the workers in Bangladesh. Building collapse and fire are very frequent incident in this
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The Kader Toy Factory Fire -Thailand- Introduction The Kader toy factory fire should be an example to factories all over the world‚ from which they should learn how important safety standards are. The employees earned between 80-105 pounds a month making dolls and soft toys. It is considered to have been one of the worst factory fires in history. The fire broke out in the afternoon of May 10th 1993‚ making the whole factory burn to the ground in only 15 minutes. Consequences According
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People from the countryside flocked to towns and factories to get work. This resulted in a very high unemployment rate and the factory owners were so desperate for workers they hired children to maximize their employees. The owners of the brand new factories were mainly focused on hiring workers cheaply so they can make money easily. This was unfair to the new working class because if you work‚ you should
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The Savagery Of Factory Farming Factory Farming is not only feeding us‚ but destroying us and our only world! Worldwide‚ about 70 billion farm animals are now reared for food each year. This mass production of food uses many antibiotics to speed up the birth process‚ but those antibiotics are still in the meat we eat. The waste and space from the factory farms destroys the environment and is also a danger to human health. The factory farming of animals has a negative impact on human health
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with the beings which grow in these conditions. It is the meat you eat. Modern day factory farms not only mistreat these animals but they also produce environmental dangers and detrimental diseases which can affect everyone regardless of whether or not you are consuming these products. My name is Darcie Hucks and I am here to speak on behalf of the billions of animals‚ who are tortured and killed each year due to factory farming.
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I am exploring the topic of factory farming. A factory farm raises large quantities of livestock in confined spaces for maximum profit. The livestock are treated with hormones and antibiotics to prevent disease and maximize their growth. Farm factories use feedlots to feed livestock grain to cause quicker weight gain prior to slaughter. The antibiotics are causing antibiotic resistant bacteria that is finding its way into meat causing health issues that will be untreatable. Farm sanctuary’s’ website
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Peter Singer’s “Down on the Factory Farm” and E.B. White’s “Death of a Pig” illustrate practices of raising animals for human consumption. The care and environment provided for the animals by both White and the factory farmer’s that Singer discusses can be labelled as ‘animal husbandry’. White and the factory farm worker’s animal husbandry methods can be deemed as ethical‚ or unethical. Bernard E. Rollin defines good animal husbandry as “keeping the animals under conditions to which their natures
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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
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Factory Farmville isn’t a game. How would you feel being trapped in a cage? Not being able to move because of such a large crowd in such a confined space? How would you feel being surrounded by disease‚ illness and constant abuse? To animals‚ this is known as a factory farm. Factory farming is where animals are packed as closely together as possible‚ most never see or feel sunlight‚ able to get fresh air or even able to turn around. These terrible conditions have serious effects on the animals physically
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Factory farming is a form of farming for livestock in a controlled environment using extreme methods. Factory farming has become awfully popular in today’s world‚ taking over the traditional farming businesses. This method of farming is a very unhealthy and inhumane way to farm livestock. It is not only harmful to the animals‚ but to humans as well. To maintain the export of food needed to keep up with demand‚ these factory farms need to have large amounts of animals to produce such a high quantity
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