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An Article About Why Processing Animals Is Bad.

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An Article About Why Processing Animals Is Bad.

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To conclude this padlet, I would like you to read on this article about how the environment of a meat-creating factory differs from the natural world environment.

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In the U.S. today, 99% of animals used for food live on massive industrial "factory farms," where they're crammed by the thousands into wire cages, metal crates, or other extremely restrictive enclosures inside filthy, windowless sheds. These animals will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural and important to them. Most won't even feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they're loaded onto trucks headed for slaughterhouses.

The factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs-always at the animals' expense. The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection.

Animals on factory farms endure constant fear and torment:

They're often given so little space that they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. Egg-laying hens are kept in small cages, chickens and pigs are kept in jam-packed sheds, and cows are kept on crowded, filthy feedlots.

Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Research shows that factory farms' widespread use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.

Most factory-farmed animals have been genetically manipulated to grow larger or to produce more milk or eggs than they naturally would. Some chickens grow so unnaturally large that their legs cannot support their outsized bodies, and they suffer from starvation or dehydration when they can't walk to reach food and water.

When they've grown large enough to slaughter or their bodies have been worn out from producing milk or eggs, animals raised for food are crowded onto trucks and transported for miles through all weather extremes, typically without food or water. At the slaughterhouse, those who survived the transport will have their throats slit, often while they're still conscious. Many remain conscious when they're plunged into the scalding-hot water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their bodies are being skinned or hacked apart.

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Factory Farming: The Industry Behind Meat and Dairy | PETA

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In the U.S. today, 99% of animals used for food live on massive industrial "factory farms," where they're crammed by the thousands into wire cages, metal crates, or other extremely restrictive enclosures inside filthy, windowless sheds. These animals will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural and important to them.

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On page 77, Ishmael says "Any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion." In this case, it is the human race exempting themselves from the rules to expand. We have done this in the form of killing other animals such as the pigs depicted in this photo.

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The man and the lion are bonding in peace in this photo. They're leaning they're heads on each other, representing that they lean and rely on each other. A quote from Ishmael (page 55.) encases this idea in a neat little box “I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.”

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As you can see in this video, the chickens have no real chance for survival. They're not living their natural lives because we bunched them all

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Truth about the chicken meat industry.Animals

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I agree with this message, because I believe that humans were made to live as equals to all other animals in the world. We were meant to hunt them down, like back in the olden days. All animals are meant to roam in the wild and either eat or be eaten. They were not meant to be thrown into a factory to be overfed, herded into small areas, and processed into meat

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I believe the message of Ishmael is embedded in this one quote from page 146 in the book. It reads  "Mankind was not needed to bring order to the world." I take this in the sort of way in that mankind is needed just as much as any other animal to keep a balance in the circle of life.

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Hello, welcome to my reasoning of why I believe Ishmael's message is very important and relevant to today's society.

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We should take example on how to get food from te Leavers. The Leavers find food in a much more natural way that is fair for both the prey and the predator. In this video, you can see that the animal is caught in a foot trap, skinned, and harvested for meat.