Animals Should Have a Right to a Quality of Life
By Audrey Malone
In the film Food Inc. It asked the focus question: Do animals deserve to have the right to a quality of life? I believe animals should because for years, animals have been tortured in the food industry. They have been treated like an object that can just be thrown around from the brutal slaughter house to the conveyor belts. Animals that are stuck in these food industry ways have no way of escaping and are being abused everyday. Therefore because animals are living creatures and can feel pain, animals should be able to have a certain humane quality of life. They deserve a certain quality of life because they can feel pain and are alive, the food industry abuses animals, and supporting local farmers that produce meat can help give those animals a better life before slaughter.
To begin, animals like most all living creatures can feel pain. It states in the article Animals Can Feel Pain A Biologist Explains How we Know, “In the first, nerves in the skin sense something harmful, and communicate that information to the spinal cord… [and] there, motor neurons activate movements that make us rapidly jerk away from the threat. This is the physical recognition of harm — called ‘nociception.’ And nearly all animals, even those with very simple nervous systems, experience it.” This quote shows that because animals can feel pain, and with the cruel ways that humans slaughter animals in warehouses for food, as other living creatures we should try to minimize that pain for them. Although we can’t stop people from eating meat we should try our best to give the animals that we are eating the best possible life before slaughter.
The next, the way animals are slaughtered in slaughterhouses are not ethnically correct. For example in the article This is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is it Good Enough? It states that, “[in]...the 1958 Humane Slaughter Act, intended to prevent the "needless suffering” of livestock during slaughter.” This shows that although a law was passed to help animals many of the ways that animals are slaughtered by, may not abide to these rules. Therefore the food industries killing methods need to be more closely monitored. To prove this is true it states in the article Animal Cruelty is The Price we Pay for Cheap Meat that, “...no training could prepare her(Sarah) for the sensory assault of 10,000 pigs in close quarters: the stench of their shit, piled three feet high in the slanted trenches below; the blood on sows’ snouts cut by cages so tight they can’t turn around or lie sideways; the racking cries of broken-legged pigs, hauled into alleys by dead-eyed workers and left there to die of exposure.” This quotes shows that one of the workers Sarah who worked in one food industry was shocked to discover the cruel way these animals in this case pigs were being treated while being slaughtered. This quote also shows how corrupt some of these food industrys can be if left looked over.
After, although it may seem all bad news for animals victim to certain areas of the food industry, there's a way to help. For example, supporting local farmers, and researching where you buy meat from is a helpful, and easy way to not only support killing animals in a humane fashion, but also supporting local farmers. It states in the article 3 Reasons to Shop Local Farmers, “Locally grown food is good for the environment and for sustainability because good farmers ensure that the land is well kept with minimal, if any, usage of chemicals and fertilizers. These practices can sequester carbon, and they can also help ensure proper natural habitats for wildlife.” This quote shows the benefits, and the importance of shopping local. Shopping local has great benefits for the person eating the food, and gives animals a better more fulfilling life.
All in all, animals deserve to have a good life before slaughter, as much as any other living creature does because the food industry abuses them, they are still living animals that can feel pain, and by shopping local it supports the animals as much as it supports us. Animals, although humans may see their lives less valuable to our own they are still living breathing animals and deserve a healthy life before slaughter. We as humans should be thankful in what the animals bring to us, so let’s show them some respect on our part and truly show them how important they really are.
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