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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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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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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It is seen in texts such as the film, Wag The Dog, the novel Animal Farm and in Martin Luther King's speeches. ... Many animals on the farm, Old Major and Squealor to be specific, used speech and language to gain power over other animals. ... He stressed to the animals the need to unite and rebel against the evil humans and take control of the farm for themselves. ... Animal Farm is most famous as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Far...

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He was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) (United Farm Workers, 2006). ... His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. ... A few more were named as well, as Chavez name as their symbolic figurehead (United Farm Workers, 2006). ... His birthday, March 31, has become Cesar Chavez Day, a state holiday in California, Colorado, and Texas (United Farm Worker...

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For example, there are 400 species of farm fowl that go extinct a day but no one knows that the chicken we are eating could have been an endangered species. ... According to statistics just released by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization(www.newsquest.com)"Two breeds of farm animal go extinct each week and one third of all domesticated breeds may disappear in the next 20 years." ... This law also helps the land around the animals nest or den to be protected not just the animal. ... And it also enables the endangered animals to be saved for future generations so they c...

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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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Not only did the Native Americans hunt and kill their food, they also started to farm and plant crops. ... The Native Americans had to run and be in shape to hunt the animals of the wild or they would not be very successful in their killings. ... In the painting you could see all the tools that were needed to help farm and gather the crops from the fields. ... The skins from the killed animals were used as clothing or blankets, and the bones from the animals would be used as tools for whatever they needed them for. ...

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In George Orwell's story, "Animal Farm" he shows the society like this when the pigs end up "Surprising the other animals, the pigs "revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write" (9, "Animal Farm"). Through this education, the pigs intended to gain power and therefore they do not intend on teaching the other animals in order to keep power for themselves.Once they have used their education to gain power, they then use the power to begin manipulation. ...

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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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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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In the photo there was a variety of farm tools as well as several farm animals also the low GDP, one thousand two hundred ninety dollars per capita, implicates this as well. ... The family most likely works on a farm and at the home during the day. ...

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America's farmland provides more than just crops for human and animal consumption. ... In reality though many other jobs depend on farmland such as people who work in grain elevators, farm machinery salesmen, farm machinery mechanics, livestock feed producers, livestock producers, and many more. ...

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Some common animals native to the area include the White-Tailed Deer, Black Bear, Red/Gray Fox, opossums and raccoons. ... The state animal is the White-Tailed Deer, state bird is the Ruffed Grouse, state fish is the Brooke Trout, state flower is the Mountain Laurel and the state tree is the Hemlock. ... Harrisburg is also home to the Pennsylvania Farm Show, which is the largest free indoor agriculture exposition in the United States. ...

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Researchers have analyzed areas were fishing stocks have reached record low numbers and fishing had to be closed down completely and they found that, over the course of five years, numbers of species had rebounded by twenty-three Farmed fish have also helped play a role in meeting seafood demand worldwide, however, farmed fish cannot feed the billion people world wide who depend on seafood as their main source of animal protein. ...

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"Each year, more Mexicans move from farms to cities in search of jobs. ... My mom says that the only way that they got the papers was because of both hers' and my dad's families had land, animals and a bank account. ... "Cesar Estarda Chavez was a labor union organizer and spokesman for the poor--especially his fellow Mexican American farmworkers he established the National Farm Workers Association."" ...

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For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. ... The women in the camps were stripped of all of their civil liberties and they were treated like they were animals. ... European women certainly never farmed or did hard laboring tasks unless she was absolutely forced to due to economic despair. ...

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They cleared the low lying bramble and thinned out trees thru effective and managed fires, clearing the ground for sunlight to shine through to assist in agricultural endeavors and allow wildlife to roam; maximizing the hunting of deer, elk, and other animals for food and skins for clothing. ... Being unable to farm and labor being scare, the elders took to 'selling' land, or in their culture, the right to utilize the resources found on that land to the Europeans in exchange for goods and food. ...

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Only one farm in 50 had electricity and half its population of 2.5 million people was living below the poverty line. ... By 1943, for example, 80 % of the valley farms had converted from kerosene lamps to electricity and farmers were doing better than they had ever done before. ... In order to increase farmers' incomes, animals had to be killed and crops had to be ploughed and destroyed. ...

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Some slaves were even whipped like animals, and hardly ever fed anything. ... A sailor who sometimes worked on slave ships said that they were separated from their families and connections with as little concern as calves and pigs are selected out of a lot of domestic animals. ... Sometimes the escapers even dressed in disguises, or given farm tools to carry. ...

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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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Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as weapons, drugs, illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds), sex slavery, terrorism offences, and torture. ... Nations should be of trying to combat this issue by attempting to create or improve upon the local economy, finding ways to limiting economic equality, funding programs to help drug addicts, and by passing legislation to protect and help victims of human trafficking/contemporary slavery (currently most are prosecuted, ...

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American Revolution of 1765-1783 was one of the most important events in the U.S. history. Its outcome was foundation of the United States of America. Relationship between the Native Americans and the colonists, which later founded the U.S., were different in different time periods. Initially, colon...

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The rise of powerful multinationals that shift capital across borders with few qualms, that feels no allegiance to any nation, no loyalty to any group of farm workers or consumers has given way over locally owned and operated businesses that know and respect the land and its people. ... Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials, labor unions, and defenders of animal rights have found common ground in a campaign against the perceived Americanization of the world. ...

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