Livestock

deadly diseases have appeared in containment food and has been a threat to consumers’ health. Overcrowding in the cages makes it accessible for diseases and other illness to spread onto other neighboring animals. As the diseases spread within the livestock, it could lead to health concerns for consumers. We begin to devalue the lives and importance of animals and begin to view them as ‘machines’ instead with cruel, inhumane treatments. In this assignment, I discussed various perspective on the…

vegan can eliminate the production of environmental waste in the world. When livestock is being prepared to be sold and taken to be slaughtered, the owner has to prepare them the right way. By doing this they have to feed it a certain amount of food and take care of them to make sure they remain healthy. With all that comes the waste from the livestock. Vegans do not believe all this waste should be eliminated from livestock and this is why they choose to be vegan. All this manure is not only…

According to Jonathan Safran Foer in his book, Eating Animals, "About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock". For years, with the approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to treat farm animals with antibiotics, farmers were feeding their animals with drugs to compensate for their compromised immune systems due to feed additives and overcrowded conditions. This results in major health…

variable was found to adversely affect supply of livestock to the market. As hypothesized, increased number of kilo meters to the market center led to the decrease of supplied volume of livestock to the market. Therefore, this variable negatively influenced the supply side of live animal to the market. It further reveal that, farmers who resided far away from lare town treat livestock similar to saving accounts and typically only supplied less number of livestock when certain necessary…

likely, bacteria develop into different forms in livestock, and humans could become resistant to antibiotics due to consuming the tampered meats. Meat industries believe that bigger is better; though their demand for quicker meat production puts not only the health of the antibiotic-ingested animals at risk, but also the health of the humans consuming the meat. Thus, meat industries should not have the right to implement antibiotics in their livestock feed. First of all, antibiotic resistant…

that animals are not given the opportunity to roam free and experience its surroundings. On the other hand, meat consumers argue that eating meat is ethical as long as meat eaters are conscious of how their meat is collected and the treatment of livestock is The consumption of meat is an act that an individual decides whether to partake in or not. Therefore, the option of eating meat should not be completely taken away, but should be limited. Eating meat ties in with vegetarian and vegan diets,…

flaxseed, rye, and wheat. We also have apples, popcorn, and potatoes. 1.3 billion bushels of Iowan corn goes to ethanol production. 339 million bushels are turned into a co-product called DDG (Dried Distillers Grain), which is a high protein, valuable livestock feed. DDG is used for more than just feed for animals. It can be used for food that people eat. 43 percent of Iowa’s corn crop is used for ethanol fuel. The Agriculture Department said that Iowa will produce 559.7 million bushels of…

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or also known as CAFO’s are another cause for the contamination of water. CAFO’s are giant livestock farms where thousands of chicken and cows are housed into small confinements and live in horrible conditions. When so many animals are stored in a limited space manure will become a problem for the farm, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, “CAFOs produce some 300 million tons of untreated manure each year (about twice as much as is generated by…

teeth to break down. Gestational crates are too inhuman to the point where the pigs go mentally crazy. The livestock aren’t being treated right the over usage of antibiotics and drugs are going to the point where we need to say “enough”. A way where we can make a difference is to get rid of gestation crate because there to inhuman how would you like it if that was you. Why don’t let the livestock live outside and not caged in all the time, let them feel the fresh air on there face, and breath…

antibiotics to be used in animal feed as it was shown to increase the weight of livestock, such as pigs.1 While the amount of dosage is under debate and review, and has been for nearly three decades, antibiotic use in pigs is administered for primarily two reasons. Namely, to treat pigs that are ill, high dosages of antibiotics are dispensed. Long-term low dose antibiotic administration is conducted to fatten livestock and or prevent illness. Antibiotics allow for the inhibition of microbial…