Factory farming involves raising large numbers of animals for food in inhumane conditions. Animals are overcrowded and have painful procedures like beak cutting and tail docking. They are given antibiotics, creating health risks. Their waste pollutes the environment. Circus animals spend most of their lives chained and travel constantly in cages. Marine parks keep whales in small tanks instead of their natural large ranges, shortening their lifespans. Animal welfare activists want to improve treatment, while animal rights activists want to ban all use of animals for food, entertainment, and research.

1. ANIMAL CRUELTY
J A M I E WA R D
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2. ANIMAL RIGHTS/ANIMAL WELFARE
Many people believe that animal rights and animal welfare are the same
idea. But it is very important to know the difference, to fully understand
where you stand on animal cruelty issues.
Animal Rights
 Animals deserve rights
similar to humans.
 Wish to ban all use of
animals.
 Wish to eliminate
human made causes
for animal pain and
suffering.
Animal Welfare
 Animals deserve to be
treated humanely.
 Wish to improve
treatment of animals.
 We can still use animals
to benefit ourselves, as
long as pain and death is
not inflicted
unnecessarily.
(Welfare vs. Rights)

3. FACTORY FARMING
A factory farm is the modern and industrial operation that raises
large numbers of animals for the sole purpose of food for profit.
A single factory farm can house up to 125,000 animals.
(Ending Factory
Farming)

4. INSIDE FACTORY FARMING
 Due to these animals living in overly crowded
areas, chickens, ducks, and turkeys will have
their beaks cut off to avoid feather picking and
cannibalism.
 The male baby chicks are sorted from the
females and are spent to a conveyer belt that
drops them directly into a grinder, because
they cannot lay eggs.
 Baby cows, otherwise known as veal, are
taken away from their mother directly after
birth. Then they are kept in a crate of in near
or total darkness for their short lives.
(Ketler, 2014)

5. INSIDE FACTORY FARMING CONTINUED…
 82 percent of dairy cows have their tails
cut off. This is so the person milking
them is more comfortable.
 Pregnant pigs are kept in immobilizing
cages, also known as “gestation crates.”
Then once the baby is born it is moved
to a “farrowing crate,” which is similar
to a gestation crate but the piglets will
be nursed until they are big enough to
live their life in a gestation crate.
(Ketler, 2014)
Animal Welfare activists hope to make the living situations for these
animals better. Animal Rights activists wish to shut factory farms down
completely, because everything inside the factory farm is inhumane and
cruel.

6. FACTORY FARMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 Factory farms produce an estimated
500 million tons of manure each year!
 The waste that comes from these
thousands of animals is held within a
lagoon, about the size of a foot-ball
field. These lagoons are prone to leak,
spill, and overflow into our lands and
into our water-ways, polluting our
waterways and soil.
(How Factory Farms Impact You)

7. FACTORY FARMS AND HEALTH HAZARDS
 Those thousands of cattle, chicken, and pigs are
fed 80 percent of our nation’s antibiotics. This
use of antibiotics is making it harder to treat
human illnesses because we are developing
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
 In the slide before, I mentioned all the manure
that the factory farms produce. This is not only
bad for the environment but also for human
health. Due to the fact that more than forty
diseases can be transferred to humans from
manure.
(Facts about Pollution from Livestock Farms)

8. ANIMALS FOR ENTERTAINMENT
The term, animals in entertainment refers to the use of animals
to act, perform, fight, and kill for the enjoyment of humans.
This term is very broad and is used to describe various forms of
entertainment, such as rodeos, movies, bull-fighting,
circuses, and marine parks.
The use of animals as entertainment removes animals from their
natural habitats, and it involves inhumane training methods .
(11 Facts about Animals in Entertainment).
Animal Welfare Activists wish to make the living/ entertainment
conditions for whales, circus elephants, and tigers better. By improving
the space for each of these animals, also by improving the treatment
of these animals to a less violent way -but still letting them be used for
entertainment. Animal Rights Activist want marine parks, rodeos,
circuses, and all use of animals to be banished. They believe that
these animals deserve better lives than serving human entertainment
needs.

9. THE CIRCUS
Circus animals travel all around the world, spending 96
percent of their lives trapped by chains and cages.
They spend eleven months each year traveling long
distances in shared cage sleeping, eating, and
defecating in the same cage.
They are allowed out to train or perform. When freed
these animals are trained and guided by being
whipped, poked, and shocked – even in front of an
audience
(Enjoy the Circus? The Animals Don't)

10. MARINE PARKS
Marine parks are the simple way to see magnificent animals
like killer whales/orcas up close.
In the wild orcas can swim up to one hundred miles a day,
the tanks they are kept in are the equivalent to being
stuck inside a bathtub.
In captivity orcas have a high chance of their dorsal fins
collapsing and in the wild they are rare.
A collapsed dorsal fin is a sign of an
unhealthy Orca.
This fin collapses because their tanks are
too shallow, which causes these Orcas to
swim at the surface. In the wild, they
also have currents to swim against which
helps keep the fin up right.
(Jaime, 2014)

11. MARINE PARKS CONTINUED…
In captivity Killer Whale life-spans are shortened.
Their estimated maximum life span is sixty to seventy years
for males and eighty to more than one hundred for
females. Orcas in the wild have an average life
expectancy of 30 to 50 years—their estimated maximum
life span is 60 to 70 years for males and 80 to more than
100 for females.
Yet, in captivity the median age is only nine years.
(10 things you didn’t
know about SeaWorld)

12. RAISING AWARENESS
If you are an animal rights activist or an animal welfare activist, you are
fighting against the same general goal of animal cruelty. The solution to
animal cruelty is to be aware, raise awareness, and don’t support these
organizations. Educate yourself and others – spread the knowledge. Do not
spend money at circuses or marine parks – this is only supporting what they
do.
Remember these animals cannot speak for themselves.

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