In factories, animals are reared on a large scale with the aim of minimizing costs to reap high profits. Animal factory farms can be compared to many industrial firms that focus on the profit margin without caring about people who are working in the industry or
In factories, animals are reared on a large scale with the aim of minimizing costs to reap high profits. Animal factory farms can be compared to many industrial firms that focus on the profit margin without caring about people who are working in the industry or the environment. Factories cause misery to animals as well as human beings who consume products manufactured by the former. They put animals into small spaces that do not allow their free movement. Animals do not get enough sunlight, free movement and generally the freedom to engage in natural behaviors or activities. It is likely to result in their infection with diseases or even death. The underlying effects caused by factory farming do not only pose a threat to animals alone, but indirectly to human beings. First, people working in such factories are likely to get diseases from the respective environment, and secondly they can be infected through the ingestion of consumables originating from these farms, if they are contaminated with bacteria, such as salmonella and coli (Kirby 2011). Therefore, it is evident that disadvantages associated with farm factories outweigh advantages, and necessary actions need to be taken to deal with the vice, since most countries lack comprehensive laws to protect the rights of animals.
Premises to Support the Argument
Conclusions made from the premises stated below are deductive in nature because results of the research are obtained after a considerable analysis and overview of the main premises, which are as follows:
- Waste materials from factory farms contribute to a greater percentage of water, land and air pollution in the neighboring environment. It compromises the health of living creatures within the latter and threatens the life of plants. It is a very important factor for the ozone layer contributing to global warming, effects of which are known to be harmful.
- There is a new trend of the use of antibiotics with the intention of making animals, which are kept in conditions that are not favorable for their survival, overcome diseases that are likely to affect them within those confined filthy cages. The administration of large doses of these antibiotics can result in bacterial resistance to medicines. This application has also resulted in the competition of drugs between animals and humans since these factories are currently adopting the use of normal antibiotics, which are designed and developed for humans with the aim of attaining high effectiveness.
- Animal’s rights in factory farms are always violated, and unthinkable actions are taken against them as if they are not sentient beings with the sole aim of making profits and minimizing expenses and costs. As a result, the objective of factory farms is increasing production output by any means. It often results in diseases and infections that can affect workers of factory farms and buyers who consume infected meat products.
- Laws available in different parts of the country to ensure the rights of animals are observed are not comprehensive and contain loopholes, which makes it impossible to stop the ill treatment of animals by humans. For instance, in the U.S, the Animal Welfare Act only offers guidelines regarding the minimal standards of handling animals, their transportation and treatment.
Various activists have conducted undercover investigations into sufferings that animals in factory farms go through as the latter focus on an increase in their profit margin. Through the Internet, these activists even launched campaigns for the purpose of crowdfunding to assist in dealing with factory farm conditions, to which animals are subjected. According to the videos provided by the Mercy for Animals Organization, most farms engaged in the production of animal products do not care about the rights of animals and sometimes even labor laws. People employed in such places work for more than eight hours without overtime payment. The layout of farms is squeezed increasing the risk of accidents to workers (Mercy for Animals, 2014).
For instance, the Walmart factory farm rearing pigs subjects them to poor conditions in very small and enclosed cages. A great number of animals are placed in what can be referred to as gestation crates that make it cumbersome for them to move even around. Because of small corridors in this farm, ani