I, too, have recently learned about the abuse
of factory farm animals and can hardly believe there are people who behave with such cruelty.
With increased community awareness about the
cruelty of factory farming, the lives led by these animals are becoming an increasingly important consideration in purchasing decisions.
Animal nonprofits actively pursue this goal by conducting undercover investigations
of factory farms in the hopes that media coverage of their findings will convince readers and viewers to eat fewer animal products.
And now to accommodate our taste for meat, we have introduced sophisticated
forms of factory farming that effectively deny the animal any reason for existence other than to be killed and consumed.
And the environmental and health damage is not distributed equally — as
concentration of factory farming increases, so do the effects felt by the particular regions located near these farms.
In the class, my education extended into the topics of the environmental
affects of factory farming and the ethical questions surrounding eating animals.
Videos showing the
cruelty of factory farming can be shocking to people who haven't seen such footage before, and therefore they can be a powerful tool for animal advocacy.
The suffering caused by the dairy and egg industry is possibly less well publicised than the
plight of factory farmed animals.
«Free to roam» is another term used by producers
of factory farmed chicken meat - suggesting that the birds have plenty of space.
We know that fast food culture is a major problem when it comes to human health and well - being, as well as when it comes to the
problem of factory farmed animals.
If they thought that was stupid, I'd talk about food safety and how no one in this country is testing for Mad Cow, and therefore no one is finding it - and how E. coli is a direct
result of the factory farming system.
Begun in 1985, you can find info here on everything from inhumane treatment of farm animals, to the impact
of factory farms on the environment.
Her name was Lola and she was a showgirl and for her, I fight until we end this industry
of factory farming of dogs».
Poor Farmers Being Displaced by Factory Farms One billion poor people throughout the world derive some part of their income from raising domesticated animals, but rapid
growth of factory farms has reduced employment opportunities.
The discovery of CLA in the fat of grass - fed animals — in butterfat, tallow and suet — and the emerging revelations as to its benefits, has posed an embarrassing dilemma for apologists
of the factory farming system.
Reducing
consumption of factory farmed animal products can be an efficient strategy to improve human health, protect the environment, and spare farm animals from cruelty.
Now known as «the ethical butcher», he believes that promoting customer contact with butchers, which has been lost in recent decades with the
rise of factory farming, is the key to an improved and sustainable meat system.
Shelters usually spare animals from life on the streets or from euthanasia by providing them temporary housing and trying to find them new owners, while ACE recommended charities tend to spare animals from life in industrial agriculture by reducing the size
of the factory farming industry (preventing new farmed animals from coming into existence) and reducing the suffering of existing farmed animals by, for example, getting companies to adopt cage - free or other similar policies.
«Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the
evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food over long distances (see global warming) and the beauty of greenmarkets (see the four - times - weekly locavore cornucopia in Union Square), some young urbanites are starting to put their muscles where their pro-environment, antiglobalization mouths are.
You can deal with the horrors
of factory farming by becoming vegetarian — or by not hanging out with vegetarians who bang on about factory farms.»
I object to many of the
practices of factory farming and the exploitation of animals and recognize that the excessive consumption of meat in the Western world uses up a lot of grain which could be made available for those who are always hungry.
and yet they are one of the worst supporters /
consumers of factory farmed chickens and the heinous conditions they are forced to endure.
If those who injest eggs and dairy products saw the true
workings of factory farming, if everyone who ate meat had to witness the treatment of the animals in the feedlots and packing plants, then eating cheese, dairy, and meat would not be such a glib choice.
In response to increasing public
exposure of factory farming, Rivalea piggery, Australia's largest piggery, announces it will end all use of sow stalls by 2017 with already 2 / 3rds of their sows now kept in group housing.
On the way, you might learn some things you wish you could unlearn (like the ugly
truth of factory farming, or just exactly what refined sugar does to your body) but I hope you will join me on this path to a healthier you and a happier planet.
This whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical
treatment of their factory farmed pigs.
Eating Mercifully is a short documentary that explores Christian perspectives on the cruelty inflicted upon
millions of factory farmed animals in our world every day.