My love for animals has been very strong since I was a child. ... A lot of animals have medical needs just as humans do. ... Animals and the people who give them medical care are worth a million dollars for all that they do to help animals and their owners. ... There is also job shadowing and internships where the students experience working in a shelter, animal clinic, or farm which is similar to what people doctors have to do. ... An animal attack from the right animal can do a lot of damage and may kill you. ...

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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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They did have a lean slate to begin with, the land was fertile, and animals were plentiful. The first, and second waves of immigrants changed this though, they over hunted, and over farmed the land. They brought new animals that took over the ecosystem. ... America was a land that held many opportunities, if you were able to find land to farm in, then with the help of indentured servants, and slaves you could earn a profit in the years to come. ... Indigo similarly to rice became a very large industry for the United States after Eliza Lucas Prickley figured out how to farm it, and grow it. ...

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Mechanization, which is the replacement of human and animal labor with machinery that could aid in farmers' tasks, was then conceived. ... In animal production, hormones and antibiotics were introduced to speed the growth of animals. ... With the issue of increased pesticide and herbicide use on farms and the increased antibiotics use with animals, GMOs offer an alluring alternative for handling these problems. Infections that attack farm animals are becoming stronger due to the increased tolerance to antibiotics from their wide use. ... Monsanto is a monopoly and controls all of America&...

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Most people consider these animals very annoying and "good for nothing." ... Donkeys can also make wonderful guard animals. ... Dogs and donkeys usually don't mix, although they can be trained to leave the house or farm dog alone. ... Donkeys can also make wonderful guard animals. ... Dogs and donkeys usually don't mix, although they can be trained to leave the house or farm dog alone. ...

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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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Animals that are raised for produce usually aren't very healthy. ... Humans are the only known animal to be able to rationalize thoughts; our high intelligence levels have given us the ability and the resources to use non-human animals for food. Since other animals' intelligence levels fall below humans, those animals also fall below humans on the food chain. ... Since the animals would be fed properly and not be pumped with hormones, we eliminate as much suffering for the animals as possible and ensure that meat is safe and natural. ... Also, there would be less transportatio...

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The pattern change was immediate when it came to the cultivation of crops and animal husbandry. Animal husbandry is the management and care of farm animals by humans for profit, in which genetic qualities and behavior considered to be advantageous to humans. ...

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Recently the U.S. Supreme Court made a rather mixed ruling regarding affirmative action. On June 23, a 5-4 decision was made in support of the University of Michigan's law school's right to use race as a factor in admissions, while declaring the points (a.k.a. quota) system unconstitutional. Becau...

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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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He presided over family prayers and worked on the family farm. ... There were all kinds of animal hunts, like for instance, hare hunts, foxhunts, raccoon bunts, and opossum hunts. Other animal-related included horse racing, cock fighting, and bull baiting. In the winter, when outdoor sports that involved animals didn't come in to play, colonists, found other means of entertainment. ...

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Most settled into farms on the Great Plains where it was cheaper to farm because they didn't need fences, and the land was cheaper. ... When they came to America they were usually poor because they had came from poor counties, and were willing to work on American farms for very low wages. ... The Gilded Age Social Darwinism - Theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had proposed for plants and animals in nature. ...

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The Indians worked in the gold and silver mines along with working on large-scale farms. ... " As well they also compared them to animals. ... They had small farms that few slaves would work by maintaining the agriculture, and becoming farm hands. ...

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The farmers described how they worked and worked and worked but no gains were made due to the fact that in order for them to have farms and work the land they had to take out loans. ... And because of these living conditions that where put upon them they were looked at as if they were animals. Just the same way most blacks were looked at like animals or small children who were incapable of living in a well-mannered way because they were inferior. ...

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They were portrayed as savages that came from the wilderness, and considered some kind of animal. ... As the demand for slaves increased because of the settlement of Englishmen in America, the number of slaves reached 11 million, who were divided among farm workers and servants. ...

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