All over the country there are programs where children can get togther and are able to take part it in rasing animals for food. 4H and FFA is a program set up by the U.S Department of
Agirculture orignially in rual areas to help young people become productive citzens by instructing them in useful skills. People beilve that children raising an animal to be slaughtered is wrong. The pros to having programs like this is that it gives children knowledge about agriculture, work ethic, knowledge and care of animals, and responsablities. There are cons to having programs like this is that it could be sad for some kids to be given an animal that they will grow a attachment to and then have to give it away to be killed. I did …show more content…
It taught me a lot about agriculture and it made me grow as a person. It also gave me a sense of responsibility and made me more mature. When I did 4H there were some cons to it. Some of the cons were that it took a lot of time out of my life and a really big thing was when I had to send my animal to be slaughtered, that was always tuff for me. In this paper I will talk about the benefit of having programs such as
4H and FFA, showing you other people prespectives and how much everyone benfits form …show more content…
The animals in the 4H program get individual care instead with comercial farming where there are hundreds of animals that need care. The animals in 4h are kept in better quality enviroments that are cleaded reggually and the animlas are also exrised regualry. There are lots of benfits for animals when given individual care. They can benfit emotinally and physicaly from individual care. Caring for one aniaml usllay means you are putting more effort into that on animal by making sure its healthy and eating rigth and making sure its getting exrise and taken care of. The US National Library of Medcine says that there are healths benefit for animls being kept as pets (“US National Library of Medcine”). When an animal is given better more individual care they are more likely to be healthy physiclly and emotionly. Animals that arent raised in 4H and FFA that are still being sold for market purpose usllay are put through comerical farming. Commerical farming does not give the animals proper care and they end up not being healthy and that can lead to them getting dieases. Those animals that are in the comerical farming indusrty arent kept in the cleaniess enivroment and can have dieses and other health issues from not getting excrised or feed properly. The animals are treated so poorly that often big beef production industrys have to deal with animal rights advocates (“The