Ethical Treatment of Animals
Ethical Treatment of Animals
The treatment of animals is all around us, we can watch television and we see it, it is in newspapers, on our computers as we browse, and we can even see bulletins as we walk down the street. Many different chains that are involved in animal cruelty are unknown to others, we can all start to wonder after some research has come before us to read. Then you can think about what you have bit into (literally) and swallowed.
“Fast food chains such as McDonald’s, KFC, and Burger King are major players in the Production, marketing, and consumption of animal-derived food throughout the world”.(Abstract)
In doing some research in August 22 ,2006 in the city of Chicago being the first to ban restaurants to sell foie gras, a delicacy prepared from goose liver. The gourmet delicacy is prepared by force-feeding ducks and geese to fatten their livers-often to the point of bursting. Force feeding fowl through a funnel inserted in their throats is a blatant example of animal cruelty(302 Business and Society Review).
According to the Business and Society Review little protection is afforded to animals raised for human consumption; they are subject to abuse throughout the process of production, transportation, and slaughter. Some of the worst examples of abuse are found in factory farms where animals may literally never see the light of day or be afforded enough space to even turn around.
A few specific examples that are noteworthy, critics of intensive animal farming contend: Animals are often genetically altered to increase size and/or shorten growing times. In doing this workers make animals fat fast and give the hormones that make them grow bigger than normal size. Animals potentially have deformities and even death from this process. Antibiotics are often laced into animal feed, it is used to both promote growth and importantly to fight animal disease associated with close confinement and stress associated with close confinement
The treatment of animals is all around us, we can watch television and we see it, it is in newspapers, on our computers as we browse, and we can even see bulletins as we walk down the street. Many different chains that are involved in animal cruelty are unknown to others, we can all start to wonder after some research has come before us to read. Then you can think about what you have bit into (literally) and swallowed.
“Fast food chains such as McDonald’s, KFC, and Burger King are major players in the Production, marketing, and consumption of animal-derived food throughout the world”.(Abstract)
In doing some research in August 22 ,2006 in the city of Chicago being the first to ban restaurants to sell foie gras, a delicacy prepared from goose liver. The gourmet delicacy is prepared by force-feeding ducks and geese to fatten their livers-often to the point of bursting. Force feeding fowl through a funnel inserted in their throats is a blatant example of animal cruelty(302 Business and Society Review).
According to the Business and Society Review little protection is afforded to animals raised for human consumption; they are subject to abuse throughout the process of production, transportation, and slaughter. Some of the worst examples of abuse are found in factory farms where animals may literally never see the light of day or be afforded enough space to even turn around.
A few specific examples that are noteworthy, critics of intensive animal farming contend: Animals are often genetically altered to increase size and/or shorten growing times. In doing this workers make animals fat fast and give the hormones that make them grow bigger than normal size. Animals potentially have deformities and even death from this process. Antibiotics are often laced into animal feed, it is used to both promote growth and importantly to fight animal disease associated with close confinement and stress associated with close confinement
References: Adams, R. (2008). Fast Food and Animal Rights: An Examination and Assessment of the Industry 's Response to Social Pressure. Business & Society Review (00453609), 113(3), 301-328. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8594.2008.00322.x.