Animal's Abuse In The Food Industry

We are what we eat, so knowing where exactly our food comes from is crucial. When it comes to food, what are we really eating? These questions have sparked my interest in the food industry and how food goes from production to your plate. Chickens, cows, pigs, and other farm animals are subject to abuse in these meat farms. Many never get to live outdoors and most of them are usually forced to live in tiny cages or warehouse floors without even seeing daylight. Chickens and pigs are crammed into small cages that often bruise or break the animals’ bones and allow them very little space to move. These cramped conditions also allow the spread of disease to quicken as the animals are being exposed to feces and metallic poisoning. E. Coli and salmonella thrive in these conditions and the bacteria is passed through meat and dairy products.
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Due to the lack of space, the piglets are crammed up and have no access for any sort of movement to keep themselves active, supposedly increasing the risk of ammonia spreading. Farmers are even forced to cut off a pig’s tail and castrate male pigs due to some pigs biting others’ tails and to avoid an “uncastrated” smell that’s apparently bothersome without any form of anesthesia or painkillers to soften the pain they’re put through. Female pigs are kept in a tight confinement that does not permit them to even turn around as they are forced to undergo pregnancy to give birth to piglets repeatedly until their reproductive organs fail to cooperate, thus sending the sows into the slaughterhouse. Most pigs can’t even live up to their expected lifespan, which is fifteen years, due to the lifestyle provided by the factory farms which allows them to live for about six