The Chain By Ted Genoways - 1575 Words

â€Å"I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we ve got to do it right. We ve got to give those animals a decent life and we ve got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.† ― Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin brings up a brilliant point, it’s okay to eat meat but it’s not okay to treat these animals throughout their life as just something that you will be killing. They have the right to live healthily and in a property environment. Throughout the novel The Chain by Ted Genoways it brings a light to all the dangerous conditions animals and workers go through and what actually goes into the meat you buy in stores. Although low prices on farm produced meat sound enticing, the abused caused to animals and the dangerous working conditions for workers cause dangerously poor sanitation, and can affect many Americans health. Factory farming has many flaws in the system, animal abuse is one that is usually over looked by owners of these farms. Many works while on this farm are exposed to the cruelty that the animals go through but often can do very little to change it. â€Å"Factory farms pack animals into spaces so tight that most can barely move. Many have no access to the outdoors, spending their lives on open warehouse floors, or housed in cages or pens.† (aspca) Without the room to engage in natural behaviors, animals become exposed to severe physical and mental distress. Many animals become trampled to death and never experience the proper lifeShow MoreRelatedEssay on Animal Testing Should Be Banned3083 Words   |  13 PagesAnother way in which farmers traumatize and hurt baby animals called thumping. The farmers use this technique to kill the underweight piglets, they hold the piglets by their back legs and throwing their heads into the concrete ground (Genoways 40). Yet Ted Genoways describes thumping as â€Å"legal and widely practiced† (40). More times than not, thumping does not actually kill the piglet, but instead just paralyzes it until death from starvation or suffocation. It would be more effective and a lot less