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Effects of Industrial Animal Farms on Humans and the Environment and Animal Cruelty
In Todays society most Americans eat meat with almost every meal. Americans consume
considerably more than any other nation. For this reason we have large factory farms to keep up
with our large demand for meat. Small sustainable farms are becoming a thing of the past. But
have you ever wondered how these massive animals farms are operating? How are the animals
being treated, and what is in the meat we are eating? These giant animal farms are ruining our
health and the environment. People need to become more aware of what is happening in these
large animal facilities in order for change to happen.
Most Americans do not know where their food is coming from. Over the past five
decades animal factory farms have grown into what they are today. The cattle at these large
factories are fed corns and grains rather than their normal diet of grass and they are given
hormones and antibiotics. This is so they can grow faster and bigger. The hormones and
antibiotics residues are left behind in the meat that we eat and in our environment which is
causing a chain reaction in the microbial world (Pollan, 2012). They feed the animals antibiotics
for sickness that they would not have gotten in the first place if they were fed the correct diet.
The use of so many antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistance which can cause diseases that the
animals bodies learn to resist but us humans will not have this resistance (Pollan, 2012).
According to Metzen if antibiotics were banned from cattle feed then they would have to feed the