Do all animals have the right to a certain quality of life?
The documentary, Food INC shared a biased opinion towards how most food, animals, and workers are treated. The documentary brings up the question if animals deserve a certain quality of life. I personally absolutely agree with the fact that animals have rights and should be treated as living beings, not objects.
Animals like cows, pigs, and chickens are breed to be eaten and sold to big food corporations. Within raising the animals there are major problems that are very upsetting regarding how the animals are treated. Animals are able to feel pain and even though they might not be as smart as us, it doesn’t entitle them to a poor quality of life.
Animals raised for slaughter should live a worthy and good life before served as food for humans. From the moment they are born to be ready to be killed are in terrible living conditions. Cows in knee high manure, which leads to manure on the food we eat. Chickens genetically modified to be bigger and meaty, can’t walk more than a couple of steps before having to collapse under their own weight. To add, pigs, cows, and chickens are put in crowded barns and really only fed corn. These animals that you expect to be grazing on a nice open grassy field are actually fed GMO corn which can lead to the meat containing e-coli. All this is hidden from the public even after multiple people have died from getting e-coli from bad meat. Big food producers keep big disgusting facts about our food from the public because if we knew everything, these companies would be shut down. But don’t we deserve to know?
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