Factory farming is not only a horrific experience for the animals, but also has a tremendous effect on the environment. People waste resources carelessly due to factory farming. A few of the most commonly wasted resources are land, food, and water. About 80% of the farming land in the United States is used, directly or indirectly, to maintain animals and their prime needs. More than 250 million acres of forest in the United States have been cleared in order to grow the grain and crops that supply the factory farms with food for the animals. It takes sixteen pounds of grain for each animal to produce one pound of meat, thus causing people to over produce grain for animals. The grain is produced in such large amounts that sometimes all the animals cannot keep up with what is being fed to them, and all the ounces of wasted food grow until the world is left with thousands of pounds of animal leftovers ("Wasted Resources").
Water is yet another wasted resource. Yes every animal deserves to drink water, but the amount of water consumed by the crops that are farmed for the animals to eat and for the animals themselves is enormous. Since cattle, birds, and pigs are so over produced, people use such a high quantity of Earth's water raising them in farms. In fact, about one half of the fresh water in the United States is used in factory farms: not only for each individual animal, but also for the slaughtering process ("Wasted Resources").
Other environmental problems, such as pollution of the water and air, are having catastrophic effects in the world that people and animals share. Since animals in factory farms produce 130 times the fecal matter of humans, one can imagine where all this fecal matter goes. Well, most of it piles in fields nearby factory farms. The ground becomes a manure pit and when it rains, fecal matter gets washed into rivers and streams causing sever pollution. Breathing the air pollution can cause severe bacterial infections in the lungs, which can possibly develop into cancer ("Pollution").
The effect of the fecal matter in the air we breathe is far more severe than the pollution of the water. Since laws exist that enforce the control of fecal matter in rivers and water, when the farms' cesspools become full, the farmers, instead of letting them drain into the river, will spray "liquid manure" into the air. Anybody who lives near these farms is in danger of breathing in these toxins from the fecal matter and suffering from extreme illnesses ("Pollution").
"Pollution." Peta. [GoVeg]. 1 May 2008 http://www.goveg.com/environment-wastedResources.asp
"Wasted Resources." Peta. [GoVeg]. 1 May 2008 http://www.goveg.com/environment-wastedResources.asp
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
And they call us animals.
Millions of animals are slaughtered daily and hardly anything can be done to stop this massacre. I created the below poster in order to inform people about the horrors that occur in factory farms.
Each species of animal is farmed for different uses, but they all go through excruciating pain and suffering for human consumption. Among the most poorly treated animals are chickens and turkeys. In factory farms, these animals don't get to run free, they aren't even exposed to sunlight; they are crammed into tiny rooms by the millions and are forced to live in their own waste as well as the corpses of other birds. Many of these birds die from lack of nutrition because they grow so large from the antibiotics that are injected into them that their legs crumble under their weight, disabling them from walking to get food. Many workers in farms abuse chickens and turkeys that are sick. They beat the birds with metal poles and toss them aside while they are still conscious and suffering. When the birds are dangling helplessly on the chain system, many don't die and are burned alive in the feather removal buckets ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Cattle are treated extremely poorly; probably equal to the horrific treatment of the chickens and turkeys. These docile animals are castrated, de-horned, and branded with a scalding, red-hot piece of metal, all without painkillers. The United States does not have laws requiring the treatment of infected and wounded animals; so many animals enter the slaughterhouses with infectious diseases and open wounds. These animals are considered healthy and safe to slaughter and send out to supermarkets. Once at the slaughterhouse, workers again torture these animals without the use of painkillers. Cattle have their throats slit open, and sometimes are "skinned and dismembered" alive ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Dairy cows (females), have to withstand even more treacherous conditions than the regular slaughter cows (males). These innocent creatures are injected with hormones to increase their production of milk and then have milking machines hooked up to their udders. The machines can hurt and cause damage to the cow. When the female dairy cow is no longer able to produce milk, she is sold to slaughterhouses to be killed and made into lunch and dinner for the overconsumption in America.([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Pigs and piglets are raised from birth in a factory in a single stall in a factory farm where they live and grow up. From day one of their life in these farms, baby piglets have their ears and tails chopped up. They are castrated at birth without any painkillers. The screams that these animals produce is filled with such suffering and anguish. As soon as the piglets begin developing, they are monitored for proper growth; the pigs that don't grow fast enough have their heads slammed into the ground. Those pigs that will not survive to the slaughter process are shot in the head with a bolt gun so the companies that raise them don't have to waste their money keeping them alive. At least the ones that are killed by the gun are put out of their misery quickly and in a less painful way. Like cows, chickens, and turkeys, pigs also go through the throat slitting process on the chain system. Those that do not get their throats slit are burned alive in hair removal tanks ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
GoVeg "Peta Video." PeTA. 21 Apr. 2008. PeTA. 4 May 2008.
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Each species of animal is farmed for different uses, but they all go through excruciating pain and suffering for human consumption. Among the most poorly treated animals are chickens and turkeys. In factory farms, these animals don't get to run free, they aren't even exposed to sunlight; they are crammed into tiny rooms by the millions and are forced to live in their own waste as well as the corpses of other birds. Many of these birds die from lack of nutrition because they grow so large from the antibiotics that are injected into them that their legs crumble under their weight, disabling them from walking to get food. Many workers in farms abuse chickens and turkeys that are sick. They beat the birds with metal poles and toss them aside while they are still conscious and suffering. When the birds are dangling helplessly on the chain system, many don't die and are burned alive in the feather removal buckets ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Cattle are treated extremely poorly; probably equal to the horrific treatment of the chickens and turkeys. These docile animals are castrated, de-horned, and branded with a scalding, red-hot piece of metal, all without painkillers. The United States does not have laws requiring the treatment of infected and wounded animals; so many animals enter the slaughterhouses with infectious diseases and open wounds. These animals are considered healthy and safe to slaughter and send out to supermarkets. Once at the slaughterhouse, workers again torture these animals without the use of painkillers. Cattle have their throats slit open, and sometimes are "skinned and dismembered" alive ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Dairy cows (females), have to withstand even more treacherous conditions than the regular slaughter cows (males). These innocent creatures are injected with hormones to increase their production of milk and then have milking machines hooked up to their udders. The machines can hurt and cause damage to the cow. When the female dairy cow is no longer able to produce milk, she is sold to slaughterhouses to be killed and made into lunch and dinner for the overconsumption in America.([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
Pigs and piglets are raised from birth in a factory in a single stall in a factory farm where they live and grow up. From day one of their life in these farms, baby piglets have their ears and tails chopped up. They are castrated at birth without any painkillers. The screams that these animals produce is filled with such suffering and anguish. As soon as the piglets begin developing, they are monitored for proper growth; the pigs that don't grow fast enough have their heads slammed into the ground. Those pigs that will not survive to the slaughter process are shot in the head with a bolt gun so the companies that raise them don't have to waste their money keeping them alive. At least the ones that are killed by the gun are put out of their misery quickly and in a less painful way. Like cows, chickens, and turkeys, pigs also go through the throat slitting process on the chain system. Those that do not get their throats slit are burned alive in hair removal tanks ([GoVeg] "[PeTA] Video").
GoVeg "Peta Video." PeTA. 21 Apr. 2008. PeTA. 4 May 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
What is Factory Farming?
Factory Farming: The process of raising and breeding farm animals in tortuous conditions for human consumption and profit.
This widespread farming technique is the number one harm to farm animals, as well as the number two reason, behind the automobile, for pollution in the world. After all, if millions of people dying in extremely vicious ways daily as these animals do, people would stop at nothing to cease these actions. Those who truly care for the well being of other species are the ones who will make a difference in this world. Since Earth is home to many creatures besides humans, one would believe that animals would be treated fairly and humanely; this is not so.
This widespread farming technique is the number one harm to farm animals, as well as the number two reason, behind the automobile, for pollution in the world. After all, if millions of people dying in extremely vicious ways daily as these animals do, people would stop at nothing to cease these actions. Those who truly care for the well being of other species are the ones who will make a difference in this world. Since Earth is home to many creatures besides humans, one would believe that animals would be treated fairly and humanely; this is not so.
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