In my freshman seminar class on Thursday, I leaned a lot more about factory farming. We watched videos from the meatrix. It is a website where you can learn a lot about factory farming, we watched the videos from the website and I actually learned a few things that I didn't know.
One thing I learned is that factory farms have been trying to take over family farms for a long time to try and grow and earn more profit. They have been packing animals so closely together that they give the animals so much antibiotics just to stay alive. Now, antibiotic resistant germs have been starting to occur. Many of the animals also never see daylight or get a breath of real fresh air.
In dairy factories, the cows are kept in small sheds that many never move or leave. Even with the antibiotics, the cows still become sick, and they get their tails cut off. In addition, the cows are given a RBGH growth hormone that Canada and the European Union have both banned. The calves of the cows are also separated from them at birth. They are given a formula that is partially made from cows blood which can cause spreading of mad cow disease.
In contuation, I found out about the actual slaughtering house where they slaughter the animals. The workers who work here are very risky. Meat packing is the most dangerous job in the nation. Manure also gets into the meat at these packing stations spreading E. Coli.
For more information or to see the meatrix videos go to: http://www.themeatrix.com/
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