Animal Mistreatment During Factory Farming

By tinahuynh

  • The United States first addressed the legal rights of farm animals by enacting statutory legislation to protect them from cruel treatment in 1641

  • 95 percent of the animals slaughtered each year (birds) do not receive protection under the USDA's interpretation of the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. (7 USC 1901 - 1907)

  • Miller, Bradley S. "The Dangers Of Factory Farming." Business & Society Review (00453609) 65 (1988): Business Source Premier. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.

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    Factory Farming

  • Rollin, Bernard E., and Robert Desch. "Farm Factories." Christian Century 118.35 (2001): 26. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.

  • According to the 2002 study by the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) and other medical scholars who have written on the subject, direct, temporal, and circumstantial evidence all definitively show that antibiotic use in livestock causes

    Drug resistant infections in humans.

  • Voters in Arizona approved a citizen initiative in November 2006 that banned the intensive confinement of pregnant pigs. Voters in Florida approved a similar measure in 2002

  • A 2003 Zog by poll reported that 82 percent of those surveyed agreed that there should be effective laws that protect farm animals against cruelty and abuse,

    and a Gallup poll released the same year found that 62 percent of Americans surveyed supported passing strict laws concerning the treatment of farm animals.

  • And in 2004, California became the first state to ban the cruel force-feeding of birds and the sale of foie gras produced from force-fed birds, effective 2012.

  • Voters in Arizona approved a citizen initiative in November 2006 that banned the confinement of calves raised for veal

  • In January 2007, two of the country's largest veal producers committed to phasing out the use of tiny crates to confine veal calves.

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  • Lessing, Ariele. "Killing Us Softly: How Subtherapeutic Dosing Of Livestock Causes Drug-Resistant Bacteria In Humans." Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 37.2 (2010): 463-491. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web. 14 Sept. 2014.

  • BROWN, STEPHANIE. "Do They Not Bleed?." Canadian Dimension 45.4 (2011): 23-26. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.

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