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1 Farm Animals [i] (2004)

handle is hein.animal/fani0001 and id is 1 raw text is: During transport, lack of protection from extreme weather, mixing of unfamiliar animals, overcrowding, poor driving, and long periods without food or water cause injuries and sometimes the deaths of animals. The Humane Slaughter Act directs the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure that pigs, cows, sheep, goats and horses are rendered insensible to pain before being killed. However, the Act excludes poultry and animals killed for ritual slaughter. Even for protected species, the law is blatantly flouted at some large slaughterhouses. The drive to increase profits has led plants to increase the number of animals slaughtered per hour. Consequently, animals are sometimes scalded, skinned and dismembered without having been properly stunned. Industrial agriculture is inherently inhumane, but cruelty to animals is not the only consequence of treating animals as machines. Factory-raised animals are routinely administered non-therapeutic levels of antibiotics to promote growth and control health problems that develop under hostile, factory condi- tions. Not only do residues of the drugs sometimes end up in the meat, but the inappropriate use of anti- biotics also enables bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics, giving rise to superbugs and diseases. Factory production concentrates tremendous amounts of manure in small areas. Unlike human waste, there is no requirement to treat waste from farm animals. Their manure is collected and stored in vast quantities, creating environmental and health hazards. Liquid manure cesspools have overflowed and their earthen liners routinely leak into groundwater. The cruelty of industrial animal agriculture affects us all.

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