Why I Want To Be Managed

Introduction (Attention Step): What do you think is the greatest cause of emission pollution? What do you believe is harming our planet? Well if you guessed that fossil fuel emissions are the biggest emission polluters, then you are completely wrong (attention getter). Animal Agriculture is actually the number one Greenhouse Gas emitter in the planet. Yes, cow farts are destroying the environment. It sounds crazy, but ever since the mid 60’s, agriculture associations have been spreading across the Americas and dominated the industry. The most destructive of all Ag corps are Livestock Corporation. These associations include IBP, Conagra, Perdue, Farmland National Beef, Cargill, etc … Animal Agriculture is effecting every single person in this room because we all breathe in the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same (credibility). The buildup of Animal Agriculture is a great destruction to our planet and our species because it is creating

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.

Our nation’s industrial farming has become more than just feeding people; it has become a way for the food industry to make more money as human population continues to grow. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Eating Animals, illustrates the effects factory farming has had on animals meant for human consumption. Furthermore, Foer asks many questions to the reader on what will it take for us to change our ways before we say enough is enough. The questions individuals need to be asking themselves are: how do we deal with the problem of factory farming, and what can people do to help solve these issues? Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, also illustrates the animal abuse that goes unseen within the food industry as well as Bernard Rollin and Robert Desch in their article “Farm Factories”, both demonstrate what is wrong today with factory farming. Foer gives such examples of employees who work in slaughterhouses giving accounts of what goes on in the kill floors, and stories of employees who have witnessed thousands and thousands of cows going through the slaughter process alive (Animals 231). Namit Arora in the article “On Eating Animals”, as well as Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, both address some of the issues that animals face once they hit the kill floor. The food industry has transformed not only how people eat, but also the negative effects our climate endures as a result of factory farming as illustrated by Anna Lappe in “The Climate Crisis at the End

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.

“The UN along with other agencies reported that not only did livestock play a major role in global warming, it is also the leading cause of resource consumption and environmental degradation destroying the planet today.” (Andersen & Kuhn, 2014). It is important, then, to consider the effects of animal agriculture on the environment. This essay will argue that animal agriculture is harmful to the environment in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, water- and land use, and that policies in the form of subsidizing plant foods, altering the Canada Food Guide, and creating plant based nutrition coaching and support groups should be enacted to solve these problems. The first section of this paper will outline scholarly literature on the effects of animal agriculture on the environment. This paper will then discuss why a plant based diet is also suitable for optimal health. Finally, this essay will conclude with an overview of the various social policies that must be executed to solve these environmental issues.

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