Factory Farming

Too many animals are being raised and slaughtered for food so limits should be put on the number of animals killed.  In 1999, 4 million sheep, 23 million ducks, 38 million cattle, and 8 billion chickens were slaughtered (Currie-McGee).  These animals are living very short, hard lives just to fulfill the purpose of being food for humans. With this many animals being killed a year there should be a limit to the number of animals killed each year.  According to the USDA, a typical American annually consumes 64 pounds of beef, 47.8 pounds of pork, 52 pounds of chicken, and 14.5 pounds of seafood (Currie-McGee).  The number of animals that were slaughtered for this amount of food is ridiculously high, and this is just one person.  The growing rate of vegans and vegetarians shows that people do care and that there is a solution for the slaughtering of all these animals.  About 100 million hogs are slaughtered annually in the United States (Kallen).  This rate of hogs dying is insane and will probably only continue to grow if people don’t start doing something about it.  It is not right to kill so many of these innocent animals.  Factory farming is killing way too many animals for food and using harmful and harsh processes to kill these animals.