05-20-2011
Industrial Chickens
What’s in the food we eat? Industrial chickens aren’t what people think they are, anymore. The differences between the industrial chickens of now a day are extremely different from the chickens that use to be raise by farmers. These industrial chickens are almost completely different, in weight, size, and speed of growth. The government isn’t doing much if not nothing at all about the conditions these chickens are being kept in. The companies like McDonald’s and many others, can basically do whatever they like, because no one has any control over them. The government should make more laws about these animals and the conditions they are in, most companies don’t even upgrade their slaughter houses. The treatment the chickens receive should be considered animal cruelty and shouldn’t be allowed. The food they are fed aren’t even food from their natural habitat.
“Normal” chickens take about three months to be fully grown, meanwhile these industrial chickens take only take 49 days, but not only do they grow much faster they also grow way bigger, but you have to ask yourself is this good for you, is this good for these chickens?. Industrial chickens are grown almost two times faster and three times bigger, although this is good for mass production, it is not good for these poor chickens at all. The 5 ½ pound chickens can’t hold up their own weight their bones can’t take the weight. The conditions they are kept in aren’t good at all, and as time goes by and technology progresses, the conditions these chickens are raised in only get worse the farmers have no choice but to obey the instructions of these companies or else they don’t get paid and lose their farms. These chickens are all together cramped up with almost no space to moves they urinate and defecate where stand, they also eat from the same place, some get sick and die rite there and then this of course can’t be healthy for everyone. How is it possible that chickens can die while being in the hen house? And still the chickens whom are in the same place, and survive, are still used to make food. The conditions for the chickens aren’t good they get sick because they are exposed to many virus, anti-biotic are used on the chickens but the antibiotics have been used so much, that the bacteria’s and viruses have become resistant to all the anti-biotics, and some farmer have even turned allergic because they’ve delt with these antibiotics for so long.
There should be laws against this form of farming. These companies contribute a lot of money to the government, if laws are created there’s always some type of lope whole that these companies find to go around the law. The government should give fines to these farms for not keeping these hens houses sanitary. The food the chickens are fed are the least expensive which most of the time is feed, which can include animal products, antibiotics, and other unnatural substances such as chewing gum and chicken manure, their health is put is in danger. And when an animal is unhealthy, the meat and other products made from it will also be less healthy. Because factory farms profit from, these operations use the cheapest food available to make the chicken fat, with no concern to the chicken’s health or the health of us who eat these products. Some of the unhealthy products that can be found in chicken feed are meat from animals of other or the same species, meat from diseased animals, bits of feathers, hair, skin, hooves, blood, manure and other animal waste, plastics, antibiotics and unhealthy amounts of grain.
The slaughter houses is where the chickens get processed, and what is amazing is that the animals are not checked out, if they are sick or healthy to be able to be made into food, apparently it doesn’t matter if they are sick they are still processed it doesn’t matter to these companies if we get sick I think this shouldn’t be allowed either. Most of these slaughter houses aren’t upgraded with the latest technology, which will help by making the chicken suffer less. Some chickens from the day they are born till the day they arrive at the slaughter house never get to see day light they are hatched in a drawer then thrown in a “hole” until they are fully grown and finally becomes useful to them to make food, could anyone imagine not being able to see sunlight from the day they are born to the day they die? Well these chickens have no choice they were born with the destiny of being slaughtered for us to eat, but don’t you think they should at least be able to see the sunlight, get some fresh air before they are slaughtered.
In conclusion, the industries that produce all these chickens are careless about the chickens and the health of their consumers. The government doesn’t seem to do much about this it must be because of all the contributions and donations they get from all these companies, if they go against these companies they wouldn’t have any money to back them up and the companies might help their opponents. The chickens are only one of the examples of the animal cruelty these industries do.
