How are food animals treated
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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How are food animals treated
Who?
- Animals food : Chickens,Cows,Birds and Pigs
- The customers
- The factory farmers
where?
- Factory farms
what?
- Animal abuse.
- Consumers eating the chemicals, growth hormones, and antibiotics they feed the animals.
- Factory farms pack animals into spaces so tight that most can barely move.
A Growing Problem: Selective Breeding in the Chicken Industry
- chicken industry’s focus on genetic selection for fast growth and efficiency
- chickens are selectively bred to grow so large, so fast—300% faster than those in 1960
- breast-heavy, that many struggle to move or even stand up.
Cows on Factory Farms
- Beef cow : they are branded and castrated without painkillers
- may have their horns removed without painkillers
- live outdoors amid all weather extremes
- cows must stand in their own waste, and sometimes mud and ice.
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- Dairy cow : most cows used for dairy production are kept indoors
- Unnaturally high milk production leads to mastitis
- Surgical Mutilation ; tails surgically removed without painkillers
- Hidden Connections .....
- Dairy cows usually meet their ends at beef slaughterhouses
Chicken on factory farms
- More than 90% of egg-laying hens in the United States
- are confined in enclosures called “battery cages” that provide less space
- The frustration of living in such tight quarters sometimes leads to fighting
- factory farms burn or slice off a portion of each hen’s beak (without painkillers)
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- Hidden Connections...
- Only female chicks will grow up to lay eggs
- There is no market for the male chicks
- So shortly ; they are killed by grinding, gassing, crushing or suffocation.
Pigs on Factory Farms
- Both male and female pigs are raised for food
- Pigs are very intelligent—as smart as or smarter than most dogs
- two to three weeks old, piglets are removed from their mothers and placed in large
- The tail-biting that sometimes results leads farms to cut off pigs’ tails without painkillers
- Farms also castrate baby male pigs—without painkillers
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- crates are barely bigger than the sow’s body
- time they are moved to equally restrictive farrowing crates to give birth
- and then are placed back in their gestation crates and re-inseminated
- This cycle continues for several years
- until the sows are no longer as productive and are sent to slaughter.
types of vegetarain
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animals right movement
What are Animal Rights?
Animal rights is the belief that animals have a right to be free of human use and exploitation, but there is a great deal of confusion about what that means. Animal rights is not about putting animals above humans, or giving animals the same rights as humans.
To most animal rights activists, animal rights is grounded in a rejection of the knowledge that animals have sentience
Basic Tenets of Animal Rights
- have an intrinsic value separate from any value they have to humans
- worthy of moral consideration
- to be free of oppression, confinement, use and abuse by humans.
Top 3 Animal Rights Issues
- 1. Human Overpopulation
- 2. Property Status of Animals
- 3. Veganism
Historical Timeline
of the Animal Rights Movement
“Animal Liberation” in 1975 as the catalyst for the modern American animal rights movement.
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- 1980People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded.
- 1987 California high school student Jennifer Graham ...
- makes national headlines when she refuses to dissect a frog.
- 1989 Avon stops testing their products on animals.
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- 1990Revlon stops testing their products on animals.
- 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act is passed
- 1993 General Motors stops using live animals in crash tests.
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- 2004 Clothing chain Forever 21 promises to stop selling fur.
- 2007 Horse slaughter ends in the United States...
- but live horses continue to be exported for slaughter.
- 2009 The European Union bans cosmetics testing...
- and bans the sale or import of seal products
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- 2010 A killer whale at SeaWorld kills his trainer...
- Dawn Brancheau. SeaWorld is fined $70,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
- 2011 National Institute of Health stops funding of new experiments on chimpanzees
- 2013 The documentary "Blackfish" reaches a mass audience...
- causing widespread public criticism of SeaWorld
