The Corrup Food Industry: Harm to Animals

After doing some research, I found something that left me absolutely appalled and speechless, how chicken is produced in factories such as Tyson Foods for example. Chickens used to be loved and cared for by their farmers. They were kept in a barn with their families and were tended to at all hours of the day. "We focus on treating our birds and the land we raise them on with respect and environmentally sound practices. Our bottom line is responsible farming and minimizing our global impact, not profit!" says the Fikel family, owners of a farm in California. They were used to lay ends and occasionally get killed for their meat. That was the way that most Americans did and still do imagine a farm. But this image that is embedding into our heads is not a reality any longer. Chickens now belong to the food company from the moment that they are dropped off at a farm to the moment that they are taken from the farms. When the chickens are at the farm they are fed foods that are injected with chemicals that increase their size by 100%. The breasts are chemically injected to a point where some chickens cannot stand on their own two legs without falling to their chest by the time they are fully grown. The chemicals will not only make the chickens grow twice as large, but also grow twice as fast. This is my first example of the food industry only thinking or time and getting all they can from what they have. This is only the animal and farming portion of this crooked business. Another problem that falls under the harm of the animals is how they are treated when being brought into the factory. Animals are thrown around and scooped up with machinery like they are dirt. We need to remember that animals might be just animals to us but they are still living and breathing things and deserve some quality of life.





In this link that I have posted below, you will see how a group of chickens are treated when on a factory farm. This is the reality of a farm and you will see the harm and abuse that the chickens go through. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1pxQeIZkM&feature=related