Why I Want To Be Managed

People think that animals want to be in zoos, but they really do not. In some zoos the owners or zookeepers see how the environment is making the animals feel bad or good and they try to change it by giving the animals a similar habitat to where they came from. All three stories “The Stripes Will Survive”, “The Zoos Go Wild”, and “Our Beautiful Macaws and Why They Need Enrichment” deal with protecting animals but they all do so in different ways.

In this documentary, Kip Andersen ventures out to research the sustainability of a meat and dairy industry. As he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today, he also investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. This documentary reveals the negative environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet, and offers a path to global sustainability for a growing population. While touching on pathos by discussing the treatment of animals, Andersen focuses on the logos aspect. By utilizing facts and statistics, all of which are backed by credible research, this leads viewers to not only question whether taste and convenience is worth the the mistreatment these animals

By exploiting a president’s promise and several specific facts and comparing the emissions between car and animal cultivation, Freston raises her claim that calls for people should be worrying about their diet rather than their car. First, the author adopts an honest report from the United Nations: “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global” (800). In this way, Freston makes her audiences believe that raising

For the past year or so, my fellow colleagues have asked and recommended me to watch this documentary – Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, but I never had the time to watch it. I am glad that this assignment presented me with this opportunity to watch the documentary. The documentary definitely opened my eyes on how I think about both the environment and environmental activist/ organizations/ lobbies/ interest groups/ special interest groups and the list goes to whose whom advocate for our environment. Out of all the things that stood out to me the outstanding logical point that I took from this film is that the issue(s) around the animal agriculture sector is all interconnected with

Last week, Shawn Archibeque spoke to the class and presented an optimistic perspective of the meat industry. I learned about the meat industry in the past, but this was the first time that I had heard someone defending the meat industry. It was very refreshing to hear about the different perspectives in the meat industry. Listening to Shawn in class and writing this paper, I realized that this is a very controversial topic and that there is no easy solution to feed everyone and limit the damages to the planet. Concentrated animal feeding operations, also known as CAFOs, a large scale & high density animal raising facility with the purpose of obtaining produce (Hribar & Schultz, 2010). Shawn, the guest speaker explained that the toxicity of everything depends on its concentration. If there was a lot of animals contained in a confined space, there would be a chance that the environment would become toxic.

In conclusion, conserving wildlife is crucial to the survival of humans and the ability to produce medicines and other important materials. Animals don’t have a voice of their own, they need help before it’s too late. As you realize animals are essential in everything we do and if they leave we will quickly follow. Conservation of wildlife is extremely important because the future generations depends on it. If you decide to take no action, you are not only letting animals down, but you are letting mankind down. Don’t make animals

Relevance: We all share the same planet, therefore, I believe it is vital to know the ways animal agriculture shapes our environment.

Wild Animal Care: Then and Now was a highly informative lecture that compared the care of wild animals in the 70’s to the care of them today. Professor Nelson described his personal experience working with wild animals in the 70s.Professor Nelson got a biology major and after college, he hitchhiked to Alaska where he eventually became a dog catcher. Most of his training was on the job, learning as he went. This is a common thread throughout Nelson’s experiences with animals in the 70’s. Things were more laid back then if you wanted to help animals you went and helped animals. His experiences working for a wildlife rehabilitation center in Georgia was also highly informative. He rehabilitated a variety of mammals and birds in hope

Today, it is a known fact that nearly 100 percent of the population interacts with agriculture and products from the animal industry, while it is estimated that only less than one percent of the population is directly involved with agricultural production. Although most people aren’t farmers, it is still important that consumers in our society still understand where their food comes from and in the case of animal agriculture, those that provide it.

In case you haven't noticed the agriculture industry has gotten a bad reputation in recent years. As anti-agriculture activists are leading the public to believe the industry is made up of uncaring, insensitive factory farmers and other agriculture workers are fighting an uphill battle to set the record straight. I can advocate for the agriculture industry by showing proper treatment of animals. With show animals I will show proper feeding, training and handling so they can show to the best of their abilities. With working animals, I will help them and care for them so they can continue to work for the agriculture industry and continue benefiting us. I can also advocate for the agricultural industry by representing agriculture in the best way possibly such as proper knowledge, respect and care for the

Thesis: The livestock industry as a whole is a vital part of our everyday lives, but is often looked upon negatively due to misconstrued facts, videos and personal opinion.

Smaller animal farms offer an opportunity to practice working with a more sustainable, conservative agriculture industry to raise animals for slaughter with less focus on production volume and commercial profitability and this relates to other issues, such as food quality. As professor of philosophy Evelyn Pluhar states, “animals raised in much less stressful conditions would shed fewer pathogens” thereby decreasing the amount of fatalities globally due to

Human’s demands on the earth are causing ecological crisis. With the rise in temperature, drought, natural disasters, ice caps melting, and water acidification, the evidence of climate change is virtually undeniable. The source of this environmental destruction is typically attributed to the burning of fossil fuel-oil, coal, and natural gas-for the purpose of transportation and industry. However, the standard American diet, specifically the prevalence of animals and their byproducts, is an even more significant contributor to the environmental threat of climate change. The livestock sector is often criticized for its mistreatment of animals, but its toll on the environment through greenhouse gas emissions and resource exploitation is even

Have you ever wanted to conserve natural resources such as water? You possibly looked into ways to do so online and clicked on what was shown as a government authorized conservation website.These websites may have recomended to use less water or take shorter showers.Maybe told you that you should think about not driving a car to work everyday to reduce pollution.Yet these “government authorized” websites refuse to shine a light on the main cause of growth to our ecological footprint, animal agriculture.Fossil fuels are not the leading contender for use of greenhouse gas emissions as you might think. Animal agriculture is.Animal agriculture is intensive animal farming or the industrial livestock production,which has been proven to be the leading cause of environmental impact. It is the leading cause of species extinction,ocean dead zones,habitat destruction,and water pollution.Animal agriculture should not have such a huge impact on the environment.Considering the amount of resources used or destroyed,such as water, the impact of the release of methane and other gases into the atmosphere,and the rate of deforestation to make agricultural farms, these farms should not be causing the environment this much harm.

Many people nowadays try to be conscious of their impacts on the environment, but what if one of the main contributors of environmental destruction was something that the vast majority of people contribute to everyday, without even realizing the detrimental effects it has on the environment? In conversations about lessening one’s personal environmental impacts, some common points are using renewable energy, recycling, taking shorter showers, and not littering. While these are great steps to take, one subject rarely thoroughly discussed is one’s consumption of animal products. Switching to more sustainable meat is suggested by numerous environmental organizations, but based on the enormous scale of the animal agriculture industry, would this really be enough to significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, rainforest destruction, ocean dead zones, water use and other negative environmental impacts all caused by the animal agriculture industry? In order to most effectively minimize the negative environmental impacts caused by the animal agriculture industry, humans must decrease their consumption of animal products.