The negative health aspects of industrialized farming is that: millions of Americans are in infected and thousand's Die every year. Remember mad cow disease ?When people ate cows with "Mad Cow Disease," they got Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a fatal dementia that afflicts humans. Another farm animal disease beginning to jeopardize human health is avian influenza.The meat, poultry, dairy and egg industries are employing technological short cuts; they are using drugs, hormones, and other chemicals to maximize farm production. Ducks are used in order to produce foie gras. that is when they put metal tubes down the ducks throats so there livers will be 10 times bigger then usually.Gestation crates, narrow metal enclosures where female breeding pigs are confined for most of their lives.Hens exploited for egg production are among the most abused farm animals. They live for years crowded in battery cages - tiny wire cages where they cannot even stretch their wings. They are de-beaked, and they are starved to shock their systems into new egg laying cycles. Approximately 300 million chickens kept for egg production in the U.S. are confined in "battery cages" where four hens are typically crowded into a wire cage measuring just sixteen inches wide. The hens are crowded so tightly, that they cannot stretch their wings or legs, and they suffer from severe feather loss, bruises and abrasions.
Baby Calves, who are taken from their mothers at birth, chained by the neck in crates, and fed a diet deficient in iron and fiber to produce the anemic white meat known as veal.
Calves are denied basic needs, including access to their mother's milk, access to pasture and exercise and often prohibited from any movement at all in order to produce the pale-colored flesh for which veal is coveted.
We can help these animals by letting the other people know how badly these animals are treated and what we can do to help them.
That is terrible how farm animals are treated these days!!! And it is all just to maximize the products available for us! People seem to forget that their ancestors were able to survive, not a long life, without the industrialized farming techniques. Our ancestors treated the animals fairly, and not as cruely as we do. I can't believe 300 million chickens kept for the purpose of egg production are kept in battery cages. That is a small area for 4 hens! It is no wonder disease spread so easily in this day and age. In the past, the animals were allowed to freely roam the fields and breathe the fresh air. But now, they are confined in small areas. By allowing the animals freedom again, we would be able to stop the animal cruelty as well as stop the wide spread diseases.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the way i stood on this ordeal. Industrialized farming is great, but it wont help in the long run people never know it could be severly harming our health. Personowly i do not like industrialized farming. I think that we should go back to normal farming. GREAT BLOG THOUGH!
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