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Essay / Industrial Agriculture - 1743
In recent decades, a new agricultural phenomenon, known as industrial agriculture, has spread throughout the world. This development has occurred mainly due to the fact that there is a high demand for meat and other animal products in the global market and to fulfill these orders it has become usual for farmers as well as companies involved in the industry to develop ways to meet this demand. The result of the initiatives put in place to achieve their objectives was the introduction of a breeding system where animals are kept in confinement and raised in that environment. This has been done with the aim of increasing the yield of these animals at the lowest possible cost while ensuring that farmers make massive profits in the markets in the shortest possible time. Industrial farmers have come to use new agricultural methods that include the use of modern machinery and biotechnology, while ensuring their access to global markets. It has been found that the confinement of animals in high density conditions has led to the increasing need for the use of antibiotics, among other agents, to help mitigate diseases that may arise due to the crowded living conditions faced by animals. animals are normally submissive. Additionally, it was found that the need to increase production has led farmers to use new forms of antibiotics designed to increase the growth rate of their animals in a way that allows them to be sold earlier than usual. Although this system of farming is practiced in different ways around the world, it has become one of the most controversial aspects of agriculture on the planet. This has been... middle of paper ...... the country's ice system does not take the rights of farm animals seriously and it is for this reason that more individuals should push for the creating better legislation to handle these situations. Over the years, and mainly due to the actions of animal rights activists, more and more cases of animal cruelty have come to court, but these cases do not appear to have deterred the many companies involved in the factory farming that continued to abuse. animals on their farms. There is a need to ensure that stricter penalties are imposed on individuals or companies who mistreat animals on their farms and this should be done in a way that sends the message to offenders that their actions have consequences (Williams 376). In fact, we would recommend that all these factory farms which violate the rights of animals which