Animal Rights groups have been digging deeper into the farming industry’s immoral treatment of the animals. The abuse I researched on chickens at a major egg farm has greatly impacted my view on the farming industry. Maybe I’m being too sensitive about an animal made for our use, but couldn’t we take certain measures to be humane about it? An investigator, posed as repairman, kept a hidden camera for more than 2 months uncovering horrible sites of abuse such as squished cages containing chickens with rotting sores and decomposing bodies. “It also shows a worker stomping on a sick hen as it flaps its wings to avoid being kicked into a manure pit.”
This particular instance has impacted me greatly enough to change my attitudes as a consumer and should with you too. In fact, I’m horrified with what level our large corporations have stooped to! A corporation's goal is to produce a good faster, bringing in more profit. The last thing on their mind is the animal's well-being, therefore, there should be stricter laws or standards regulating the treatment of animals in the farming industry. Thinking that if the consumers knew the immoral way their getting products, then they would change their buying habits. One way consumers can fight for the cause, but still eat eggs is to buy ones labeled "uncaged eggs." By doing this, "you can rest assured that the chickens that laid the eggs are as free to frolic as you are."
Check these sites out!
Animal Rights Group Claims Abuse at Chicken Farm
http://www.ktvu.com/news/16177636/detail.html
Uncaged Eggs
http://www.granvilleonline.ca/gr/living/2008/02/26/uncaged-eggs
2 comments:
This makes me sick. I’m not an animal rights activist or anything, but I am disgusted by this circumstance. What makes a person become so desensitized to animals that they can “stomp on a sick hen?” I never thought about the problem with hens, but this really brings it to my attention. I will think twice about the eggs that I buy now.
About a week ago, a person handed me a pamphlet on abuse animals. It showed very graphic pictures of chicken farms and slaughter houses. They showed how some pigs had to stay in cages with dead pigs who were already decomposing. After seeing such images, I have begin to develop a different outlook on what eat and how it was processed. I believe the government should step in and take control over this problem.
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