Laws are not strong enough against animal cruelty and people do not know about this problem because

Do people know this, not many people do know about the American food industry because the government tries to cover it up because they know that the way they do stuff is bad. If people knew that most of their food is pumped full of bad stuff and the fact that the animals are killed in the worst way possible the consumers would not buy the food. That is why the government covers it up and makes it look like that does not

America is not what it used to be. This country has changed from what it was yesterday and will evolve into the infinite unknown. From here, we will only continue to lose touch with ourselves and who we are. We have lost morality for our animals. The public majority seems to not care how our meat is produced and made. Big companies have been able to keep it a secret from the people of how bad our meat has gotten. A report from 2013 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture states that an average of 18,032 cows is killed each day; that number has only gone up from the past three years. These big companies are making billions of dollars a year and are spending that money to keep their operations blind to anyone who even attempts to investigate them.

The conditions for animals in modern slaughterhouses are unsanitary and violent. The lack of rules and regulations cause animals to be treated poorly because this industry is focused on mass production and profit rather than finding a more humane alternative to run the meat packing business. The most effective method to stop this cruelty is to learn about where meat comes from, start supporting the organic and family farms which will ultimately lead to the reducing the amount of animals that have to suffer.

The topic of horse slaughter doesn’t usually come up very often in everyday conversation. Horse slaughter is more of an implicit subject, which your everyday person doesn’t know much about. Because it is highly controversial, it has gone through the cycle of being banded and then reinstated twice in the last 5 years. With being involved in the horse industry my entire life, I have witnessed the effects first hand. Some people see it as killing pets, animal cruelty, and morally wrong. However, I see it as a source of income, a way to stop the starvation and abuse of horses, an export industry for the United States, as well as a quality meal for in times of despair.

Society today is more focused on the fast production of food, they don't take the time to notice what the production of their food is doing to animals.

Horse slaughter is not humane euthanasia, while, euthanasia is defined as a gentle, painless death provided in order to prevent suffering, slaughter is a brutal and terrifying end for horses (“Horse Slaughter is not Euthanasia”). It is very shocking to hear all the awful things that horses go through in the slaughter process. When the horses are herded through the plant to slaughter, many workers use fiberglass rods to poke and beat their faces, necks, backs and legs as the animals are shoved through the facility into the kill pen (Horse Slaughter “). The USDA recently released photos of horses with broken bones protruding from their bodies, eyeballs hanging by a thread of skin, and open wounds, all taken at former U.S horse slaughter plants. This does not sound like animals that people love and have used as companion pets for many generations ( “The Horse Fund”). Former inspector has stated that horses are only stunned for 30 seconds, long enough to be hung up by a hind leg (“Jeras”) .The horse is still fully conscious at the start of the slaughter process, during which he or she is hung by a hind leg, his or her throat slit and body butchered. Death is the final step, is excruciating (“Horse Slaughter”).How does it sound okay to butcher an animal before it is even killed? Horse slaughter is a threat to human health because horses are given hundreds of drugs during their lives that have not been approved by the FDA for use in animals intended for human consumption (“ASPCA”). Horses are given medications , prescribed by vets that allows them to enter the human food chain, but yet people still consume it (“The Horse Fund”) . The slaughter process is also inherently cruel, as horses are difficult to stun properly and may be repeatedly injured or stabbed during the procedure(“How to Help a Horse”). Each year more than 100,000 American horses - working, racing and companion horses and even children’s ponies - are

“Perhaps a less brutal and less violent society will one day exist that will understand that life and earth are more important than products of death and cruelty” (Bond). Their four hooves led us to where we are today. They are every little girl's dream at night. They are a cowboy’s closest friend, always there with a shoulder to lean on. If you ask any horse crazy girl or boy you will be told that a horse is the most amazing creature you will ever meet. In return over 100,000 of these beautiful horses are sent to slaughterhouses yearly in the United States alone (“The Facts About Horse Slaughter”). Though euthanasia is not always financially feasible. Horse slaughter

Throughout time humans have forged sympathy for numerous animals, created from the relationships we have developed over time, bonding and interacting with them. We have a grimace look with an animal that's been physically abused or a farm animal being butchered for the meat that eventually make its to the grocery shelf. Having watched videos on supermarket suppliers we don't realize the apathy of some various meat, dairy and egg industries that settle their animals in heinous conditions and have utter negligence for their sentience. It becomes certain that these wondrous animals who provide us with an ecological resource are not respected and action is necessary to punish those individuals. As a society we sometimes disregard the death of some animals, it's unfair but we are just biased on the affection we show to certain animals.

These animals are treated so terribly and are not cared for properly. Additionally, they also cause environmental issues when they, “consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases.” (Bittman) Factory farm animals are forced and squeezed into tight and tiny cages while they’re growing to reduce the amount of space. As a result, there will more animals fitted into a small area to produce more profit off of. These meat factories inhumanly killed cattle, pigs, and poultry. Though, not many people seem to take this into consideration when consuming meat products. How their food was treated before it was put on their plate to consume is not a thought that many of us are taught to keep inside our

The closing of slaughterhouses in the United States for horses has resulted in inhumane treatment and gross neglect for thousands of horses. Congressmen, lobbyists, activists, actors, and every day people have petitioned for these death traps to be destroyed, all for the benefit of the horse. The horse, who cannot speak, can only react to his surroundings. The ones to be benefited are the people who see this as cruel, and inhumane; to give them a clear conscious, because they feel endeared to this animal. I, too, am endeared to this animal, but understand that the horse has been put in, an all too often, precarious situation, that even death, cannot come quick enough.

When cattle first came to America with the Europeans it was a simpler time. The cattle were set lose to graze in the forests and slaughtered as needed. In the 1800’s livestock started becoming more and more domesticated. They were breed, raised to work the fields, and sold or traded as needed with the local community. As town populations grew larger so did the need for commercial butchers. Cows were slaughtered as

Meat production has often been looked upon as inhumane and messy for the conditions provided to the animals before slaughter is horrible. The factories require valuable resources like land and electricity. Large areas are cleared of forests

There is a large problem of animal cruelty linked to the food industry in the United States. Countless slaughterhouses, chicken farms, and other meat producers have been found guilty of harming animals and killing them inhumanely. This is something that clearly needs to change.

In the video shows that Cattle that cannot walk are potentially weak and diseased also they are banned from entering to food supply. It gives them a lot of problems because schools and companies that bought their meat just by know that they don’t take care perfectly to the cattle some cannot stand by their own. Also, some could have the "mad cow disease" that illness can extremely the human in the brain as fatal brain infection by eating the infected meat. An investigator says that "The video also shows an electric shock and high intensity water sprays administered to cows too sick or that can't stand by their own". However that is one of the most famous recalls that the F.D.A had made to one of the ost biggest companies of

Animal cruelty laws have to be changed. They are not straightforward or strict at all, animal abuse is at a higher percentage because people know they will and can get away with it. If the Government could just make these laws a little more strict, then we would not have so much violence towards animals. They are mistreated for the pleasure of a different species, humans. Which is horrible in every way, shape, and form. If citizens of the world want peace on earth and less violence than they need to start with the smaller things, like this, then that would slowly but surely get us to less violence. It could make a huge change in the world if people took a stand for making animal cruelty laws less strict.