Animal Cruelty Is Increasing as the Population is Increasing

Viewpoint: Animal cruelty is becoming a big issue ever since the population has increased in the USA. The animals that we eat everyday are being abused and feed things that can harm their digestive system as they get older just so they can get fat faster and the government can make money faster. This is something that is horrifying because we're all oblivious of what's going on in these so call "farms" that the animals we eat are in. In the article They Eat What? states "When many Americans think of farm animals, they picture cattle munching grass on rolling pastures, chickens pecking on the ground outside of picturesque red barns, and pigs gobbling down food at the trough. Over the last 50 years, the way food animals are raised and fed has changed dramatically—to the detriment of both animals and humans. Many people are surprised to find that most of the food animals in the United States are no longer raised on farms at all. Instead they come from crowded animal factories, also known as large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)." These "farms" are really factories where the animals don't have space to move and be wild; what their nature tells them to be.

      They're put into these condition since small and they don't live a life that animals in farm do and they aren't as healthy either. In these "farms" they feed these animals corn instead of grass what they really should be eating. The article Confined dining: A primer on factory farms and what they mean to our meat by Twilight Greenaway states "These animals are packed into warehouses and lots with slatted floors, not wandering around in the grass. Here’s the EPA’s website: “AFOs congregate animals, feed, manure and urine, dead animals, and production operations on a small land area. Feed is brought to the animals rather than the animals grazing or otherwise seeking feed in pastures, fields, or on rangeland." This shows how the animals are being put into horrible conditions and we're all blind to this fact that has been going on for more than 50 years now.

    Corn does the same thing that it does for human for animals, but in a bigger scale because they're feed it everyday, which makes it gather up in their digestive system and mess up some of their organs. The article They Eat What? also states "The advent of "mad cow" disease (also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) raised international concern about the safety of feeding rendered[1] cattle to cattle. Since the discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, the federal government has taken some action to restrict the parts of cattle that can be fed back to cattle. However, most animals are still allowed to eat meat from their own species. Pig carcasses can be rendered and fed back to pigs, chicken carcasses can be rendered and fed back to chickens, and turkey carcasses can be rendered and fed back to turkeys. Even cattle can still be fed cow blood and some other cow parts." This is so wrong how these animals are feed their own carcasses. This has to be unhealthy for them.  

Evidence:  http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/they-eat-what-the-reality-of.html  (They Eat What?)
http://grist.org/basics/confined-dining-a-primer-on-factory-farms-and-what-they-mean-for-your-meat/ (Confined dining: A primer on factory and the

-Sharlyn