Feedlot

Every year about 56 billion animals in the United States are massacred by humans. These innocent animals are slaughtered for our taste enjoyment and fashion. Pigs, cows, and chickens are being treated inadequate living conditions slaughterhouses. Instead of animals, they are treated like property and objects. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals exclaims, “On today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates

This is absolutely despicable, these are living breathing creatures. I stared out from the dirty car window and I sat in my parked car across the road from the slaughter house. Hundreds of cows milled aimlessly with glazed eyes, through dust clouds of the overturned earth. I watched as several other cars pulled up behind mine, checking in my rear view mirror to see a familiar face. Bianca in her little yellow bug looked so out of place on this filthy dirt road. Today was going to be the day we put

Feedlots are managed facilities where livestock, notably beef cattle, are confined to produce beef for Australian consumers. They aim to increase the amount of meat each animal produces to meet the growing demands of the Australian export market. Associated with the process of confining cattle, are a number of detrimental effects and ethical issues, such as the number of hormones being introduced into the cattle’s diets. Hormones are chemical substances made by cells in one part of the body and released

cattle are the cattle with sufficient weight/finish to enter feedlots and finish on high concentrate diets to produce premium quality beef. Cattle feeding operations are generally larger than most Cow/Calf operations. The majority of U.S feedlots are ran with under 1,000 head of cattle but market only a small share of "fed-cattle". On the other hand, feedlots with a 1,000 or more head market 80 to 90 percent of the "fed-cattle". Once in feedlots, calves will gain between three and five pounds per day

Ever think of the food one consumes and how it gets from farm to table? Food is processed differently everywhere but everyone does not know how the procedure is done. Most fast food places and even restaurants are likely to have meats that are feedlot animal meat, which means animals such as cows, chicken, and pigs are being fed with massive antibiotics to fatten them up. Looking at a piece of meat is not the same thing as looking at where it comes from. Majority of these animals go into these slaughterhouses

Because in the world, many people who like to eat meat, countries allocate a huge swath of land to make more room for animals. Also scattered land to feed these animals. According to the article “Vegetarianism” by Ramsey. P, “Animals not confined to feedlots pose different problems for the environment. Overgrazing and disagreements about land use in the western United States have become major battleground issues between ranchers and environmentalists.” I believe that this is a big problem for our environment

One critical problem of industrial feedlots is that they devastate the environment due to the grand scale of emissions, odors, and bi-products of the oversized “farms”. With tens of thousands of livestock, comes hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste and manure. Many times, feedlot owners allow the manure to settle in the lots without disposing of it properly because there is just too much of it to contain. This waste can seep into the ground, supersaturating the earth with nitrogen, ammonia, phosphorus

important disease of feedlot cattle, causing an estimated global economic loss in excess of $3 billion per year. BRD is a multifactorial disease caused by various bacterial and viral pathogens, contributing to significant morbidity and mortality in feedlot cattle. Stress due shipping, poor health condition, crowding, and mixing of calves comprises their immune system making them prone to BRD pathogens. Use of antibiotic is important part of prevention and control strategies in feedlot cattle. Histophilus

LAC at arrival as potential predictor variable in feedlot calves with BRD. A total of one hundred thirty five charolais feedlot calves were transported to the commercial feedlot located in South Farms- Beef Cattle and Sheep Field Laboratory at university of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign- USA. All selected animals (n= 104; mean 439.93 LB) were considered to be in good condition with no apparent injuries or disease at the time of arrival at the feedlot unit. The selected calves did not receive antimicrobials

The buller steer syndrome commonly observed in feedlots is an abnormal, aberrant behavioral and social condition in which steers repeatedly mount another steer. The steer being mounted is called the “buller” and the steer riding is called the “rider”. As a consequence of the excessive riding, the buller steer often becomes exhausted, shows loss of hair, can develop swelling and trauma along the dorsal line and tail head, and in extreme cases can suffer from broken bones or may even die from injuries