While factory farms may pose some serious threats to humans, the result for animals in factory farms is always the same, and it isn't pleasant. ... Animals raised in factory farms spend their entire lives in miserable conditions. ... There is nothing natural about the way animals are cared for on factory farms. ... Factory farm workers are made to view these animals as machines ("Putting Meat"). ... The way animals are treated in factory farms is repulsive and inhumane. ...

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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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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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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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(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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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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Some ex-slaves were awarded land, but had no tools to farm it. Therefore, they had to turn to furnishing merchants, who would give the ex-slaves farm animals, tools, and seeds. ... These people turned to sharecropping, through which they would receive a piece of land to farm, and all the tools to farm the land. ...

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Animals are a vital part of advertising. ... An example of animals being used to market a product is Chick-Fil-As The Cow Campaign. ... Giving animals human traits and behaviors allows humans to form strong emotional connections with animals (Nauret). ... Anthropomorphism can lead to the creation of social classes between animals. ... The mass production of chicken may lead to the use of growth hormones, unsanitary farm conditions and the unethical treatment of chickens (Meat Your Meat). ...

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He opposed the consumption of animal flesh because he believed that the human soul was immortal and moved on to a new body after death, possibly that of an animal. ... These Christians believed that "Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand, for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produced growth," as Ellen White, the leader of the group, wrote around the mid 1800's. ... You may be at a higher risk due to your diet if you consume excessive amounts of animal (saturated) fat and cholesterol, or eat little or no fiber, fruit, or vegetables....

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