Mrs. Couzens
Language Arts, 4th Hour
23 March 2016
Veganism, Good or Bad
Imagine you just got unwillingly artificially inseminated again and it's happened more times than you can count. Your living conditions are so awful, you are constantly afraid, abused, and stressed, you're being fed grain when it's unnatural and you know you should be eating grass but you can't. Because grass doesn't make you gain weight fast enough and with the business the faster you can be killed the faster they get money. Then the day comes you're going into labor and you have just given birth to your beautiful baby, just when you forget to be scared your baby is torn away from you, you're screaming for your child and their crying back for you. You …show more content…
In the United States animals that are raised for organic meat have access to fresh air, the outdoors, and water. By law they can not give the animals hormones or antibiotics and are fed organic, free of animal by products feed. According to a report from 2007 from the Range Improvement Task Force “organic meat accounted for 3% of total US meat 12 "natural and organic" beef accounted for 4% of total beef sales in the United States.” The FDA has regulations on the way animals are treated and what they are feed. Though there are regulations on the treatment of animals, the rules aren't usually followed. The treatment of animals is not a concern money is, to them the life of others doesn't matter. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act also known as HMSA orders that all livestock is to be stunned unconscious before slaughter to decrease the suffering. Nevertheless, birds like chickens and turkeys are not an obligation. Many slaughterhouses ignore the HMSA. In 2010 a report from the United States Government Accountability Organization (GAO) found out that the USDA wasn't “taking consistent actions to enforce the …show more content…
Most of which are in third world countries where it's hard to get out of poverty. We could fix world hunger if we didn't waste 12 pounds of grain to make only 1 pound of beef. A study from Cornell University found that the grain used to feed the US livestock alone could feed 800 million