Final Food Assignment

In our recent topic on food, we learned much more about where our food came from than what we knew before. In America we have a law that is for animals and how we are suppose to treat them the we would like to be treated. But what most people do not know about the food they eat is where it came from on what kind of condition that animal was in before it got killed to make into meat and fill their stomachs. They also do no know if that meat they were eating came from a healthy animal or not. The truth is that most animals that are killed to make humans food are not treated the right way. They are either beat or killed because they do no follow the living conditions that they are suppose to based the "farm" they are in. The people that run these animal factories do no treat the animals they are suppose to, for example in a video I recently watch on animal cruelty it shows how three main animals are treated (cows, chickens & pigs). The things they put the animals through are horrible, like the chickens for example they put them all in small cages with each other and clip their beaks so that they would not be able to peck and kill each other. Putting the chickens into the small cages are not healthy for them because they are not able to stretch their muscles and that makes them weak. They also put hundreds of chickens into a place where it is hard for the to walk around and they get no sun light and when they feed them it is not shared out separately it is just thrown around into one area. By doing that only certain chickens get food and some will get more than the other and some would die of starvation. What do to the cows is a bit similar to the chickens but for the cows they auction them off to other farms and they even auction off the calves. On the way to auctions they put all the cows in the back of the van and with not enough room to move they cows step on each other and end up killing other cows. Most of the times some of the cows are not able to walk because as soon as they are born they send to to auction off and stuff them into the van and not able to stretch their muscles which make their legs weak. Even if they are weak and can not barely walk people still slaughter them and make them into meat and sell them to different companies and that is how some of the meat we eat are unhealthy. What they do to cows that is also horrible while they alive they cut off their balls and cut their horns and the reason they do that is because they do not want the animals fighting or mating to produce more calves unless they want them to and they also cut their tails off. In order for the female cows to produce more milk they give them RBGH and it is a drug hormone. Also at birth they take the calves away from their mothers and feed them the blood from a dead cow and that causes more animal disease. For the pigs they are a putting into their own small cage and they are not able to move at all. So when a mother pig is giving birth it is hard for her to put her body into a comfortable position so that makes the birth painful for her. Also once the baby is born they take them away from their mother clip their ears and cut off their tails, because they pigs are put into such a small cage it is hard for them to move their muscles and make it stronger so sometimes they legs swollen they are on able to walk. What the people do that run the factories do because the pigs legs are over grown they take the pigs by their hind legs and slam their heads on the floor until they are dead and for some of the weak pigs what they do to keep them a live they give them antibiotics and that also cause animal disease also. With these conditions that people put these animals through show how bad animal cruelty is and how they do no follow the law on how animals should not be treated humane and some people that eat meat need to be aware where they meat comes from and research the situation that the animals are in so they can be aware what is going on in the United States. From watching the animal cruelty video and being more aware on what is going on with the animals makes me second think about eating meat but because I grew up eating like that it would be hard for me to adjust my eating styles and eat less meat than I do now. Also I think that the government steps in and try to make the conditions better I think that the meat that will be produce would be more healthier and people would not have to worry about their meat carrying diseases and be in a much more healthier environment. If you would like to see some of the conditions that the animals are in here is a animal cruelty video showing how the people treat the animals and how their living conditions are. (http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp)