Emily Solano
Bursch
Honors Biology 1-Period 4
19 November 2012
Animals have every right to a good living quality. The animals that feed us need a higher standard than the one they have now. Imagine hundreds of animals dying each day and the cause is solely their living conditions. Now think how we eat their neighbors who survived but just barely. We need to help change the way these animals are raised.
The quality in which animals live now is disgusting. Hundreds of chickens are stuffed into one house, cattle live in one corral ankle deep in their own waste. Cows deserve to be in an open pasture with massive space to graze. When cooped up together it makes it difficult to move or get away from each other. If one has a disease in a matter of time everyone in that space will have it too. This is all because of the closeness of the animals. The disease is caused by this unsanitary living environment and then spread by it too.
Chickens are given a steroid to speed up their process of growth. It takes half the time for them to mature and become fatter than a chicken without this chemical. However, the steroids have no affect on the chickens bones. The skeletal structure grows at the rate it was naturally supposed to and therefore is not able to sustain the hefty weight of the chicken. Because of this they can not take more than a few steps before falling to the ground. For some this means death. Not every chicken lands with their feet tucked under their stomach. Dozens of chickens fall dead each day because they fell on their necks and they broke.
They lie there knowing it is the end and they can do nothing about it.
The costs to keep these animals in acceptable living conditions is expensive. Some people might say too expensive. But the diseases these animals can develop and pass on will be devastating to humans if continue to let animals become ill. The diseases are caused by their living environment and the diet they eat. Cattle are meant to graze, not to eat the corn they are fed. The corn causes digestive problems and leads to a sickness called E Coli. This illness is deadly to the human body. With it being spread through our food industry, many different meat products will have to be recalled because of the disease.
Animals have the right to a higher living standard because of the service they give to us. They live to sustain humans but half of them hold diseases because we are too lazy to fix the problem at the root. We are the cause of the diseases we blame on the animals. We must fix this before it is too late.
Bursch
Honors Biology 1-Period 4
19 November 2012
Animals have every right to a good living quality. The animals that feed us need a higher standard than the one they have now. Imagine hundreds of animals dying each day and the cause is solely their living conditions. Now think how we eat their neighbors who survived but just barely. We need to help change the way these animals are raised.
The quality in which animals live now is disgusting. Hundreds of chickens are stuffed into one house, cattle live in one corral ankle deep in their own waste. Cows deserve to be in an open pasture with massive space to graze. When cooped up together it makes it difficult to move or get away from each other. If one has a disease in a matter of time everyone in that space will have it too. This is all because of the closeness of the animals. The disease is caused by this unsanitary living environment and then spread by it too.
Chickens are given a steroid to speed up their process of growth. It takes half the time for them to mature and become fatter than a chicken without this chemical. However, the steroids have no affect on the chickens bones. The skeletal structure grows at the rate it was naturally supposed to and therefore is not able to sustain the hefty weight of the chicken. Because of this they can not take more than a few steps before falling to the ground. For some this means death. Not every chicken lands with their feet tucked under their stomach. Dozens of chickens fall dead each day because they fell on their necks and they broke.
They lie there knowing it is the end and they can do nothing about it.
The costs to keep these animals in acceptable living conditions is expensive. Some people might say too expensive. But the diseases these animals can develop and pass on will be devastating to humans if continue to let animals become ill. The diseases are caused by their living environment and the diet they eat. Cattle are meant to graze, not to eat the corn they are fed. The corn causes digestive problems and leads to a sickness called E Coli. This illness is deadly to the human body. With it being spread through our food industry, many different meat products will have to be recalled because of the disease.
Animals have the right to a higher living standard because of the service they give to us. They live to sustain humans but half of them hold diseases because we are too lazy to fix the problem at the root. We are the cause of the diseases we blame on the animals. We must fix this before it is too late.
i think its a very good effort
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