Factory Farming 3

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Sergio Hernandez
English 113B
Professor Batty
02/24/2016
Factory Farming Reflection
As you know factory farming has being a modern traditional to produce food. Although it
has helped to produce an enormous amount of food to feed the people. It has a dark secret
towards how they produce so much food. Factory farming should be banned, because of all the
abusive things that are done to all the animals in the factory that society doesnt really see. All
the animals that are indoors in the factory are abused in various ways that puts the animals in
pain such as antibiotics, abuse, and the slaughterhouse.
Peta and Aspca are big organization that have being around for years, that have being the
voice for animals in to stopping all the animal cruelty. This organizations provide good
information to the public on what really happens inside factory farming and what the people can
do to help stop all these cruelty. The three animals that are used to produce food are cows,
chickens, and pigs. These animals rights are taken away and abused and hurt in many ways that
can cause stress, diseases, fear, and death, from the three animals chickens are the ones that
suffer the most out of the three. Chickens take around 5 months to fully mature, but in factory
farms it only takes around 6 weeks, due to the antibiotics that are used on them. The antibiotics
help the hens to produce more eggs then before which helps society, but in the end these
antibiotics has a negative effect on the chickens and hens. Since the chickens bodies grow at an
alarming rate that it causes the body to start failing, for example some chickens go cripple
because they are too heavy for their own bodies. Some of their organs and skulls lag behind,
because of the rapid growth and due to this they can end up having heart failure, trouble
breathing and chronic pain. Chickens are mistreated and just seeing as Lifeless objects what I
mean is that they are seeing as if they have no feelings and dont feel any pain. Animals feel pain
just like humans, but sadly we are too blind to notice that animals are similar to us as well.
Before chickens are send to the slaughter house they are brutally thrown to small caged and
cramped with other chickens. Due to the way they are thrown in to the cage some of the chickens
get their wings broken or legs. By the time that the chickens get to the slaughterhouse some are
dead due to the pain and extreme weather conditions. Although chickens suffer so much pigs are
abuse as well.
In Petas website they explain on how pigs are friendly, intelligent animals that are
known to be smarter than dogs. Sadly humans dont ever interact with these kind animal. In
factory farming pigs are isolated in cages all day and are forced to not have any freedom to
explore the outside as how they supposed to live. Mother pigs live throughout their whole life in
gestation crates. This crates are so small that they dont have enough space to move around nor
to be comfortable. After the female pigs are done with giving birth they are moved to farrowing
crates. On the website Peta they quoted They beat the shit out of what they mean by this is that
the workers abusively hit the female pigs to move them to their crates. They are kept there giving
birth and taking their piglets when they are born and when they are of no use anymore they are
send to the slaughterhouse. The piglets are removed from their mothers when they are born and
are placed in a crate that they are cramped together without no fresh air and sunlight. As said in
the Aspca website cows are used for two different industries.
Cows are just like humans they have different personalities some are shy, kind, bossy and
more. Factory farms should be banned to the fact that they make all these animals miserable.
When cows are in these factory I can guarantee that they feel pain, sadness, and despair to why
they are treated that way. In factory farms there is the dairy and meat industry, in the dairy
industry cows are injected with artificial insemination to impregnate them. When their baby
calves are born they are removed from the mother which causes stress to the mother and calves.
Unfortunately the baby calves go through to different routes of fate, the female calves are kept to
be used as future milk producers, and the male calves are fatten up to be used as beef producers.
Now in days cows produce up to more than 100 pounds of milk (Peta) due to all these high rate
of milk cows tend to get mastitis a painful bacterial that causes the cows udder to swell. In the
meat industry the cows are burned with iron to place an identification on them this burn puts
tremendous amount of high degree burns. To make the cows fatter they are given a grain diet that
causes pain, illness, and death (Aspca). The cows in the dairy and meat industry meet the same
fate when they are send to the slaughterhouse. As quoted by Peta They Die Piece by Piece
what they mean by this is the most horrifying thing ever in slaughterhouses, cows are killed
while they are on conscious and they cut their body parts piece by piece while they are still alive.
In conclusion, if factory farming continues there are various things that can happen in the
near future that will have the opposite effect. Such as instead of food production increasing it can
reduce, because of the decrease of animals or diseases spreading on animals and people due to all
the antibiotics. Animals shouldnt be mistreated, abuse, or caged they should have freedom and
rights just as humans, because they are similar to us as well. Factory farming is inhuman its the
symbol of carelessness. Society should know that animals have feelings and feel pain just like
humans so by reading this I hope that you have made a choice to what is the right thing to do.
Reference
"Animal Used for Food." Peta. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, n.d. Web. 10 Feb.
2016.
"Animal Cruelty." ASPCA. ASPCA, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.
"Factory Farming." Farm Sanctuary. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.
Professor Batty Comments

Sergio, You have some great points here. You have a clear organization. Your thesis is overall
clear I understand that you are against factory farming. You mention the counterargument in the
introduction, but you should discuss this more in the body. You need to include more evidence in
your body paragraphs, especially the first body paragraph. Even though you are probably just
paraphrasing from a website, you didn't include any citations, so you are bordering on
plagiarism. If you get information from a source, include an intext citation, even if you change
the wording. You also need to incorporate more quotes. You have some runon and comma splice
issues. Separate independent clauses. You also need to be careful of verb tenses. Be sure to spend
more time on proofreading.

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