http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/11/20/animal-cruelty-and-idaho-agriculture/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/11/20/animal-cruelty-and-idaho-agriculture/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Angela Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:40:23 +0000 http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=1270#comment-218 i'm researching factory farming and the unfair abuse and horrible living conditions of the animals in such farms for my senior project right now. reading through the many sights i have found and reading this short article honestly just breaks my heart. it's completely unjust to be so cruel to living creatures. if we're breeding them to just kill them any who, shouldn't we give them a good life for the few short moments that they're alive. if we have laws [for humans] to protect our rights, such as it's illegal to be injected with something you don't want, why don't these animals have the same rights. the breathe and walk and eat just like us. they have blood coursing through their viens just like us. they have brains that function just like us. the only difference between us is that we are able to communicate our thoughts, emotions, and pain. these animals aren't able to stick up for themselves and we need to do something about it. i do live in idaho and i do think we need to revise our animal cruelty laws, we need to treat the animals better, give them better living conditions and better diets. we need to get rid of the forced impregnation and the forced injections to unnaturally give growth to the animals. eventually whatever you put into the animals will affect us to. i don't want to be eating meat with artificial hormones, that can't be healthy for us either. as one lady by the name of rachel carson once said, "until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether the victim is human or animal- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world…we cannot of peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature". we need to show an example as a united nation that we can treat everyone and everything with equal respect and we can start by giving factory farm animals the true rights that they deserve. i’m researching factory farming and the unfair abuse and horrible living conditions of the animals in such farms for my senior project right now. reading through the many sights i have found and reading this short article honestly just breaks my heart. it’s completely unjust to be so cruel to living creatures. if we’re breeding them to just kill them any who, shouldn’t we give them a good life for the few short moments that they’re alive. if we have laws [for humans] to protect our rights, such as it’s illegal to be injected with something you don’t want, why don’t these animals have the same rights. the breathe and walk and eat just like us. they have blood coursing through their viens just like us. they have brains that function just like us. the only difference between us is that we are able to communicate our thoughts, emotions, and pain. these animals aren’t able to stick up for themselves and we need to do something about it. i do live in idaho and i do think we need to revise our animal cruelty laws, we need to treat the animals better, give them better living conditions and better diets. we need to get rid of the forced impregnation and the forced injections to unnaturally give growth to the animals. eventually whatever you put into the animals will affect us to. i don’t want to be eating meat with artificial hormones, that can’t be healthy for us either. as one lady by the name of rachel carson once said, “until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether the victim is human or animal- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world…we cannot of peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature”. we need to show an example as a united nation that we can treat everyone and everything with equal respect and we can start by giving factory farm animals the true rights that they deserve.

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