Essay, Research Paper: Cows

Our land our bodies and our cows are all effected by the meet
industry.
Our land and water is getting polluted from animal waste. Our bodies are
getting sick from germs in meat, and the cows are being tortured and are
suffering.
Waste from livestock in the United States amounts to130 times the
waste produced by people. In Central California 1,600 dairies produced
more
waste than a city of 21 million people that’s 5 tons for every person on this
earth, and their is not enough surrounding land to absorb it all. Every time it
rains phosphorous and nitrogen seep into our water ways causing algae and
fungus to spread. One type of algae has ability to ambush its pray by
stunning
it with a disorienting toxin before sucking it’s skin off. this one celled
creature is known for killing a billion fish within North Carolina
in 1995. People who came in connection with this cell often experienced
memory loss and got sores on their skin. In 1982 their were 22 known
species
of harmful dinoflagellates in 1997 their were over 60.
In the United States farm animals received 30 times the antibiotics
than people did’ not to treat infection but to make the animal grow faster on
less feed. some physicians are finding human diseases difficult to treat each
year 60’000 Americans die because their medications didn’t work. Every
year on average 9,000 people die from something they ate. One hamburger
can contain the meat of 100 different cows from 4 different countries. One
infected animal can contaminate 16 tons of beef. In 1995 the annual health
care cost from meat centered diets are between 23.6 and 61.4 billion. A diet
of mostly fruits, vegetables and cereals reduces 40 percent of cancers and in
1996 Americans Cancer Society released similar guidelines including
recommending not to have red meat in your diet. Salmonella originated in
European cows in the late 80s. From cows it spread to other livestock then
to
pets and wild animals and eventually to people. The one effective cure is the
antibiotic fluoroquinolones but even it is loosing it’s effectiveness. Soon the
only way to stop the sickness will be to outlaw factory farms and the
administering antibiotics to farm animals.
Modern cows of today lives her whole live with a swelled and
sensitive
udder, it is likely never to be allowed out of her stall it is milked up to three
times a day and is kept pregnant nearly all of her short life. A cows life in
today milk factory is bred, fed, medicated, inseminated and manipulated for
one reason maximum milk at minimum cost. Her young are usually taken
from her almost immediately after birth the female calf is raised to be a
dairy
cow and the male calf is either immediately slaughter or it is taken to a veal
factory. At the veal factory they will chain him up by his neck so he can not
turn around his entire life. They feed them a special diet without iron or
roughage. They inject him with antibiotics and hormones to keep him alive
and
to help him grow. they will keep him in darkness except for feeding time.
The result is a nearly full grown animal with very tender white flesh. The
good part about this is veal is still getting premium price it always did when
it
came from a baby calf but now their is just a lot more of it. Half of every
butchered cow and one third of every butchered pig becomes a material of
waste in addition 920 million animals die before reaching slaughter. With
all
the left over and dead animals they export lips to Mexico for taco filling and
horns are made into gelatin other parts are used for drugs, aphrodisiacs and
cosmetics. The rest is minced, pulverized and boiled down for more
products.
All this happens just so we can eat meat. If everyone had a vegetarian
diet and no food was wasted, current food productions would theoretically
feed 10 billion people more than the population for the year 2050.
According
to the Population References Bureau. Even today 840 million people are
malnourished and nearly 50,000 die from starvation every day.



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