mistreatment of farm animals?

Question

I need to do a report on the mistreatment of FARM animals and i need help.
What specifically do they do to animals?
Is it true that farm animals don't have any protection to prevent abuse?
What are bad things they do to them before they kill them?

Answer 1

OK, so you need to try and seperate the truth from the hype and scare mongering.

These are some of the things I've SEEN this year:

EWE left to die of a urinary tract infection ( becasue the antibiotic injection costs £3 ( $6 ) adn the EWE was in her last year. Jsut left in the pen to die slowly over 2 weeks.

Lambs left dead in nursing pens with thier mums for many days. risk of infection, desease, troumor.

EWES cages in a tight forcing pen so they cannot lie down for a month, to allow rejected or other ewes lambs to milk from her

Fly strike left on sheep so they are eaten to death in a field by maggots.

Lambs left lame or trapped in fields so they starve to death.

Lambs left with worms so they get weak to the point of death before the farmer picks them up by a hind leg and puts them in a oen. Maybe they'll get an injection, maybe not.

Ewes force to birth because the farm hand wants to go home to watch eastenders.

Thats sheep, I have much to say on what i've seen with cattle. Although you will find cattle slightly better looked after because they are worth more.

Chickens, being of low value, are completely abused even on the best commercial farms. The only way to get cruetly free eggs is from a hobby or smallholding farm where they are considered as pets and looked after.

I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of meat eaters who have driven down prices to the extent that farmers can no longer give the care they want to, they just cannot afford it. The farmers I know are sickened by what they have to do - they went into farming because they like the job, not because they want to mistreat animals

In the UK Animal husbandry is controlled by DEFRA who contract out to the local council trading standards department. Most counties have 1 person to check all the farms.

The defined standards are quite good, just not adhered to.

Answer 2

Laying hens are routinely debeaked (with a hot knife and no anesthetic) so that, when they are crammed into a cage with half a dozen other birds, they won't peck each other to death from the stress of being so cramped. They cannot even spread their wings and many of them break legs or get deformed feet from the wire of the cages. Male chicks are discarded to suffocate or starve because they can't lay and laying chickens don't produce enough meat to be of use to a broiler operation.

Pigs are castrated and have their tails cut off so that when they are crammed into a feedlot, they can't bite each others' tails off in reaction to the stress.

Dairy cows are artificially inseminated over and over again to keep them lactating. Ninty percent of calves are taken from their mothers within 24 hours and 50% never get to suckle at all. Male calves are of no value to a dairy operation so they are sold for veal and kept in a crate so small that they can't lie down or turn around; they're slaughtered by the time they are 4 months old. In the meantime their mothers, who would live for 20 years under normal circumstances, are so worn out from pregnancy and continuous milk production that they have to be slaughtered for cheap beef at 5 or 6.

When they go to slaughter, it's anything but "humane." Cows are meant to be stunned before having their throats slit, but stunning doesn't always work and slaughter house employees have reported cattle getting as far as skinning while they are still alive. Chicken often get thrown in the scald tank still alive.

There's more... google it or pick up a book like "Diet for a New America" or "The Food Revolution" by John Robbins.

Answer 3

mistreatment farm animals

Answer 4

animal being slaughtered is already a mistreatment of farm animals, not giving a nice place to rest and sleep is also one.

Answer 5

Compassion Over Killing (www.cok.net) has information on the cruel treatment of animals.

www.vegweb.com is a great resource for veg*ans, and they have links for animal-rights and pro-veg groups.

Not only to farmed animals have no protection, there's really no inspection at slaughterhouses either to ensure the quality of the meat. If you really want something that will turn your blood cold, check out "Slaughterhouse" by Gail Eisnitz. There are excerpts from her book in "Skinny *****" by Kim Barnouin and Rory Freidman.

Answer 6

I'll give you one experience I had.
I responded to an add in the newspaper about chicken catching, I was young at the time, and naive. I figured chicken catching was where you would pick up a chicken, place it in a cage, and it would be transported by truck. I was todl to bring a face mask and gloves. I get to this barn in the middle of the night, walk inside, I almost threw up from the smell, and it was "dusty" or more like feathery. I was on the 2nd floor of the barn (or so it seemed) everything was pitch black except for some red lights on the chikens (I think they do this so the chickens can't see and freak out less) then some guys start running toward the chickens with white gates closing them into a corner, so it will be easier to access them. I am told to pick up 5 in each hand....(at this point im like ugh how..?) they then show me how to go under a chicken with one hand grab one leg and flip them upside down, then with chicken in hand (by one leg) go grab 4 others, then do same with other hand, so in the end you are holding 10 chickens upside down by one leg. Also I was told to try to be gentle not to break their legs, expecially when I take the chickens and pass to person who puts them on truck, since he has to squeeze my hand and the chickens legs in some manner that he can transfer them all to his hand by their lil legs. Everyone was picking up the chickens really fast, I on the other hand trying to be all gentle, after about 2 minutes I quit. Also since it was the 2nd floor or something, when people would pass the chickens to the person on the truck, some would fall, pretty sure some were injured badly, I thought about saving the chickens and somehow sneaking them out of there (the ones who had fallen) but I had no means of transportation, I will never forget the smell. I don't knwo if this is animal cruelty to everyones standards, but I am forever turned off of chicken. This was in Canada for the record and they were KFC chickens.

Answer 7

So basically some peta supporting teacher told you that they do cruel things to animals on farms, and you being a student who should be able to believe your teachers took it at face value and believed the lies your teacher told you blindly. I have been on lots of farms and seen happy well fed well taken care of animals on every one of them. So the only place you are going to get this info is from peta or some vegan site where they stage the pictures and videos so that simple minded people like your teacher will continue to send them their paychecks, and those fat azzes at peta will never have to get real jobs.

Answer 8

you can search on yahoo "mistreatment of farm animals" and it will show you sites with all the information you need.

there is plenty of bad things and you can even watch meat your meat(peta2) or watch the movie "fast food nation" and see the cows getting killed

i know! you should go on peta and order a starter pack thing and it comes with this booklet that tells you all about it! although im sure lots of other people already gave you answers!

Answer 9

They are treated like property, not like breathing and feeling animals that have individual personalities and emotions. 'Tis true no matter how hard you train yourself to believe that they are fleshy machines.
http://meat.org
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan
http://www.factoryfarming.org

Anyone that eats meat and says that animals have no other purpose hasn't visited a farm animal sanctuary.
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/

Answer 10

There is equal opportunity in all countries for animals.