An example of an abuse of power takes place in George Orwell's fable, Animal Farm. ... He fits the animals unable to rule themselves by saying "the whole management and organization of this farm depend on us" "(36). He devalues the animals by stating that with their intelligence and skills the farm will fail, reminding them of the importance of having pigs in leadership to protect the farm. ... This speech marks the rise of power and downfall of equality on Animal Farm proving the growing view of superiority by the pigs. ... Squealer,in this passage, uses rhetoric to excuse the pig's...

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The Farm Bill provokes debate in many areas that we have been studying this spring. ... The Farm Bill is voted on and enacted every 5 years. ... The Farm Bill is not merely a single law that addresses a specific issue. ... But what exactly is so wrong with the Farm Bill? ... The poisons and toxins used to ensure a full yield of GMO's or GE's are clearly related to an increase in infections, disabilities, disorders, and contaminations to both humans and animals. ...

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Animal Assisted Therapy, or AAT as referred to in recent studies, is a type of therapy involving actions between people and trained animals as a form of treatment. ... They promote the idea that farm animals' therapy can relate to people with mental disorders and made a study, which was developed in the context of "Green Care", that contained animals, plants, gardens, or landscapes as an intervention to a specific group of people. Using these methods to study a certain amount of people, men and women, with different problems resulted that farm animals increased self-efficacy amo...

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Animal experimentation is unreliable to humans. ... Therefore, it is impossible to find an animal with the same characteristics of a human (Thomas, Replacing Animals). ... In the United States, animal testing is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Nevertheless, AWA excludes 95% of animals used in research; mice, rats, farm animals, and cold blooded animals, like fish and reptiles. ... The animals often go crazy and even rip their hair off (Budkie, The Facts About Animal Experimentation). ...

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If a farm animal lived a happy life but was then killed for food, does that make it better than a factory farm? ... Ultimately, I don't agree with how factory farms are managed and I don't agree with corporate experiments on animals for better consumer products, but I do agree with eating meat for a balanced diet and I do agree with medical animal testing. ... (Www.humanesociety.org) Although I find these numbers disgusting I do still believe in Hares view that the central issue is not whether it's moral to kill animals, but how many animals we ought to cause there to be &ndas...

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Animal rights seek to guarantee animals with a sense of entitlement. ... In this manner, both human beings and animals are all animals (Ryder, 2004). ... Animal rights will ensure that animal farming is conducted in a manner that reduces the suffering of animals. ... The consumption of animal meat is a practice central to the animal rights debate. With regard to animal suffering, most animals are transported a...

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Condescension to animals that are pets and people's companions, which, normally, has too little to do with taking insightful care of them, represents, most probably, one of the best possible outcomes of human and animal relations. Various aspects of ethical issues arising from people's responsibility to animals are discussed nowadays. These discussions address the highly sensitive and challenging issues of hunting wild animals, breeding farm animals to be used as food, and carrying out experiments on animals. ... Great amounts of chickens and other farm animals should be killed every...

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Where there is livestock, animals graze the land, then waste from those animals is used to fertilize the soil. ... Industrial farms disregard that need for balance. ... Factory farmed animals are selectively bred to produce the maximum amount. ... Corn is used to feed the animals one consumes. ... Food is traveling farther than ever from farm to plate. ...

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The issue of whether animals have sense perception (are sentient) is important for those who use animals in research. ... Some of the opponents of animal experimentation argue that some or all types of animal research are not scientifically valid. ... PETA dispatches undercover investigators to laboratories, slaughterhouses and farms. ... The difference in physical make up of humans to animals should be enough to warrant not using animals in experimentation. ... It is not enough that animal experimentation is harmful or even fatal to animals; the human species is now at risk from the anima...

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A few years later in 1865, congress would establish a program for imported animals that have been classified as diseased. ... This was done as a preventative to keep diseased animals used as food consumption. ... Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service manages and regulates the genetically engineered organisms, administering the Animal Welfare Act and carrying out wildlife damages management activities. ... The National Agriculture Statistic Service directs the surveys each year as a part of the Agricultures Department's farm census. ... It prioritizes in homes for ownership, farm ...

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His extensive experiments with growing plants and animals substantiated his observations that a declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals was responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions of animals fed deficient foods from such soils, and that mankind was no exception. ... Bromfield returned to his native Ohio in 1939 and used his wealth and interest in agriculture to create Malabar Farm, named for the coast in India, which became the most widely known and publicized experimental farm in America. ... In 1940, he pur...

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Almost nobody lives on farms anymore. ... To illustrate, as agriculture become more efficient, many people abandoned farm work and moved to cities and urban areas to begin other kinds of work rather than farm work. ... Second, the Slow Food movement can describe the food production to the people who would adhere to the movement, because one of their main objectives, the food production should not be harm the human health, animal welfare, and environment. ... These chemicals can negatively affect on the animals life and human health. ... To illustrate, according to the Fast Food movement offici...

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Although people might see animals as a source of food and simply as property, chickens must be treated humanely because animals have lives that are valuable. ... Murray, an animal journalist on animal care states, "Hens are usually kept eight or nine to a cage; long tiers of these cages are built one upon another in sheds that hold tens of thousands of birds, none of whom has enough room to raise a wing. ... Some, however, might say that chickens have no feelings and are just farm animals and must be treated like a farm animal because is why they are on the Earth, to be eaten. Some peopl...

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The human being has built cities where forests and jungles were before; the human being has destroyed ecosystems in order to build farms and to make our lives easier. ... Moreover, genetic engineering could avoid the use of hormones in animals. Farm animals could be genetically modified so productivity could be increased. ... Hormones, as well as pesticides, can have a terrible effect on the human body; it has been proved that some of the synthetic hormones that are feed to the farm animals increase the risk of getting cancer. ... It will not only increase the productivity in general, but also...

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Summary of Evidence Reasons for Collectivisation Collectivisation was established as part of the Five-Year Plan, as 'industrialisation could only be achieved by the mechanisation of agriculture'.1 At the 15th Party Congress in December 1927, Stalin argued that 'strengthening co-operative farms (kolkhozy) and increasing mechanisation could solve the inefficiency and backwardness of agriculture'.2 'Stalin knew that the peasants would resist collectivisation', but 'aiming for rapid industrialisation and socialisation of the countryside, he accepted no comp...

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Polychlorinated Biphenyls spread very easily in the environment and interact and influence the wellbeing both of humans and animals, even with the benefits that come with PCBs there are negative factors as well. ... PCBs are also biomagnified meaning they are progressively stored into the fatty tissues of animals and the concentration levels increase as they progress to the top of the food chain where the animal is most contaminated. ... According to the World Health Organization (WHO) a study conducted on farmed and wild salmon PCB levels indicate that farmed salmon has higher levels of conta...

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How can you ask someone to fight for a country that view your family as criminals and they were treated like animals cage up behind a fence. ... Masumoto learns that with hard work comes dedication, after leaving the farm to attend Berkley University, he returns with a greater appreciation of the farm, he decides to turn the farm into an organic one, he knows this is not an easy task but he is a hard worker and with the help and approval of his father he knows they can do it they both posses the dedication needed to encounter a new challenges. ... Masumoto taking full control o f the farm gave...

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The theory behind collectivisation was that it would replace the small scale un-mechanised and inefficient farms, with large scale mechanised farms that would produce food far more efficiently. ... For those with property, however, collectivisation meant giving up to the collective farms and selling most of the food that they produced to the state at low prices set by the state itself, leaving the farmers with a bare minimum. ... In an attempt to prevent resistance to collectivisation, the USSR used shock brigades to force reluctant peasants into joining the collective farms (1929-33). In resp...

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Also, it talks about the reality of farm animals and what they go through before they end up on our plate and it is true even if we dine at the most expensive restaurants. ... It seems the entire system is skewed to produce the most amount of the food in the least amount of cost without any respect for the animals, the environment or even the consumers that are paying to eat that food. ... Corn is used in so much quantities that it is also becoming a staple diet of farmed fish, we are teaching the fish to eat corn. ... The plants practice such unhygienic ways and the animals could be ill o...

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In the countryside on farms, most housewives would toss even trash and food scraps out whatever door or window most convenient at the time into the yard for the livestock to pick over later. ... Most Americans, during this time, lived in families that contained "extra people" like domestic "helps," midwives, farm laborers, widows, or even orphans of a decreased relation. ... On American farms and plantations, horses and oxen hauled loads, pulled plows and turned cider mills and cotton gins. ... Almanacs helped give insight to the mysteries of natural cycles of growth and pr...

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Under socialism farms provided their members with guaranteed wages, living accommodation, pensions , social insurance, medical facilities, kindergartens , schools, shops, central heating, fuel and firewood, fodder for privately owned livestock, transport for migrations, clubs, libraries and recreational facilities. ... Most of these farms operated with substantial subsidies from the state. ... One of the most important things for pastoralists is their wealth in animals (Humphrey & Sneath:1999:59). In the socialist period the majority of livestock was owned by collective or state farms. ... I...

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In their legends, everything is treated equally as if it was a person, whether they were referring to an animal, a tree, or even a rock. ... In order to build homes and their missions, trees were chopped down in high numbers which also destroyed the habitats for many animals. ... This led to an extreme decline in the population of wildlife and also a change in the behavior of animals. It was said that animals never behaved the same as they had once before the settlers came (Margolin 7). ... Indians were commonly placed on rocky and hilly terrain which was extremely difficult to farm and irr...

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In factory farming, animals are often fed loads of antibiotics for supposed "healthiness and growth." ... This leads antibiotic resistant bacteria to be in the factory farmed foods we eat. The notion is simple, killing the bacteria with mass antibiotics on animals meant for human treatment not only raises chances in ARB, but also poses a problem should a type of bacteria become immune to our general accessible medication. ... It suffers from the same problem the factory farm have, it kills most of the bacteria, but like they say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." ...

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According to the research from Oklahoma State University, the increase of GMO crops and animals often requires fewer chemicals and may help to reduce environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion. As a result, the environment around farms becomes healthier and more beautiful which can indirectly benefit people life by bringing better air and water quality (Joshua). ... Also, humans and animals that consume those plants ingest those toxins. ... When dust clouds form they lift up topsoil containing high levels of these harmful chemicals and carry them over to nearby towns, f...

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Furthermore, when it comes to animals breeding, naturally raised animals are those raised and fed organically and kept free from antibiotics and hormones. ... When it comes to buying meat, according to Cukan "US Organic Food Market Increases" from the Organicconsumersassociation.org (2013), the report suggested that organic meat is the best because organic animals are not fed antibiotics in a slaughterhouse. According to couple researchers from the University of Delaware, they proclaimed "After animals have been fed antibiotics over a period of time, they retain the strains of b...

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