I believe other animals have just as much a right to exist on this planet as we do. ... Sadly, most people have only observed the beauty of animals at the zoo, which perhaps leads to the apathy they feel toward animal rights. ... People with pets generally seem slightly more sympathetic to animals. ... The meat farms claim they make the slaughter process quick and painless; cows are simply tethered and lined up on a conveyor belt, and roll toward two giant anvils, which pound together, crushing the skull of the cow in a split second. ... How about a herbivorous animal being feed animal by prod...

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Inhumane Treatment of Animals 1. ... Life on "Old MacDonald's Farm- isn't what it used to be. ... Because crowding creates a prime atmosphere for disease, animals on factory farms are fed and sprayed with huge amount of pesticides and antibiotics, which remain in their bodies and are passed on to the people who eat them. ... c. 90 percent of all commercially sold egg and chicken products come from chickens that were raised on factory farms. ... How can humans expect to be healthy when subsisting on unhealthy animals? ...

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Some would say that animals are here for humans consumption. ... Literature shows the majesty of animals. ... Raising animals on factory farms is cruel and ecologically devastating. ... Humans are not among these animals. ... Should animals live to feed and serve humans? ...

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Animal Rights In our society today many people share a very close relationship with other non-human animals. ... I do believe that some animals need to eat other animals in order to survive. For some animals this is their reason to exist. There are hundreds of species of animals that need to feed off of other animals in order to survive. ... Anyone who mistreats any animal, whether they be a household pet or a farm animal should have to face much more severe consequences than exist in our legal system today. ...

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In the essay "All Animals Are Equal...," Peter Singer argues the point that animals and humans should be granted "equal consideration" (29). ... Animals are kept on "factory farms", where their short lives are spent in unnatural, confined quarters. ... Since humans are linked to animals it would be hard to make changes in order to protect animals better. ... Singer has valid points saying animals can suffer just as humans can, but it is human nature to kill animals and use animals as a source of food. ... With humans being one of the predators of animals, humans kept the animal population...

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Eating meat is harmful to the animals too. ... If you think these animals get it bad, I won't even mention some of the videos I've seen of animals that are raised for fur. ... Another reason why we make it okay to eat animals is because we feel that animals don't have any rights, including the right to live. Why do humans have rights that animals don't? ... It would all make sense if animals could not suffer. ...

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Exposing Animal Cruelty within the Slaughterhouses A. Cruelty from the Start: proving that cruelty is started at birth within the confines of the farm. ... The Government and Animal Cruelty: how the government turns the other cheek when exposed to animal cruelty within slaughterhouses. ... Aspects of Animal Cruelty A. ... What you can do to stop animal cruelty. ...

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(poisons in our food. pg. 255) Some animal carcasses are even dropped on the floor and shipped regardless; and of course the always present issue of the slaughter of diseased animals! ... Farms and ranches raise mainly cows and pigs for the slaughter. The animals are fed hormones to bulk them up. ... Animals are driven in cramped flatbed trucks to the slaughterhouse. ... this report concentrates on the safety of meat and the farms and the factories are the only concerns of this writer regarding microorganisms. ...

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Inhumane again attributes human feelings to these animals. ... In the meat industry the suffering of animals is inevitable. ... These animals eg; cattle, are designed to eat grass, they are not designed to eat other animals. ... Especially chickens and pigs they spend their lives in artificial conditions of huge factory farms, with no access to air or sunshine and no freedom of movement. ... In the slaughter house animals struggle to escape. ...

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The documentary interviews many different people that have worked for powerful food industries, people that run slaughterhouses, or farm workers. ... Filming the animals in factories being mistreated changes the emotions, some may feel enraged or some may feel sympathetic. ... If the United States began to organically grow food and was produced from open rural farms instead of enclosed factories, the food people would be consuming would be more healthy and fresh. ... Relating to the slaughter houses and factories, the animals that they use are injected with antibiotics and steroids. ... Alon...

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Fish is both farmed, and caught from the Congo river. ... The nature in music, is experienced at the Symphonies Naturelles, a relaxing forest and animal sanctuary with a music café, ten miles from the center of Kinshasa. ...

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Raising Healthy Market Chickens On June 10th, 2003 we picked up ten baby chicks at the Geene County Fairgrounds. My sister, Shannon, who is also showing market chickens, was with me. My little brother, Ryan was also there along with my dad. We took turns choosing chicks from a box of chick...

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