Animals Have Feelings Too

On factory farms animals are overcrowded and become sick in
most instances. Caged animals especially are deprived of
their rights and overall well-being. On factory farms,
piglets' only weeks old undergo procedures that don't
even seem comprehendible. Without any type of numbing
medication or anesthesia, workers will cut into a piglet's
scrotum and pull out its testicles; large chunks of each
piglet's ears are sliced off with scissors for
identification purposes; they also have their tails cut off
to reduce tail biting from other pigs and they have their
incisor teeth clipped with pliers to reduce injury to other
pigs since they are in such close confinement. Dairy cows
can live up to the age of thirty but factory farm cows live
to the age about four and half because their production
level decreases with age. They are crammed into lots where
they stay covered in mud and their own feces. They are
forced to take drugs that make them produce unnatural
amounts of milk and their udders become swollen or infected
because of this. They are impregnated every year so the
production of milk stays high and babies are taken away from
them right at birth to avoid attachment. The baby bulls are
chained up in veal crates and are slaughtered at 16 weeks of
age. Chickens are by far the most abused of all. When chicks
are born they are brought to a either a laying, or fattening
farm. The males will be killed at birth because they are
worthless to farmers. The laying hens live for about a year
and lay around 300 eggs. After a year they are slaughtered
because they only thing they are good for is meat. They are
chained up by their feet on an assembly line to go through a
machine that is supposed to cut their heads off; in most
cases the chickens are still conscious and alive.

My personal contributions to this problem will to have no
part in buying or consuming meat products from factory
farms, grocery stores or restaurants. I could also try to
pursue others to do the same by educating them on the topic.
I could give away or sell eggs from my own free-range hens
to discourage my friends or family members from going out
and buying them. For the bigger picture, I could try talking
to the University and try to discourage them from buying
from factories and go with something that has animals more
humanely treated.

I believe all animals have the right to a humane way of life
and to experience it the way they were meant to; because in
the end, humans are just like animals.