Every day, animals are fighting for their precious lives in countries around the world. They are faced with torture of being beaten, imprisoned, and confined to tiny cages so that they can be killed for consumption by humans. The abuse that these innocent animals suffer because of people is devastating, especially being that decisions are made unconsciously numerous times a day supporting the killing and abuse – such the kind of clothing people wear. Even worse, animals are being killed more just to be eaten than anything else (PETA). Every year over 58 billion animals are killed worldwide, and 10 billion of those are killed right here in the United States for food (Lin). Do these innocent animals not have feelings and deserve to live a natural life like humans? Do they deserved to be tormented at birth and eventually killed for the satisfaction of humans? With all of that being said, is factory farming of animals moral? This question could be debated heavily, however it should not be moral because animals have just as peaceful and lengthy life as anyone else and it increases raises health risks.
Gene Baur, is a well-known activist, best-selling author of Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, as well as the president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary. Farm Sanctuary is an animal rescue organization dedicated to farmed animals who have suffered abuse and were going to be slaughtered. In the 1980s, Baur started investigating various factory farms, slaughter houses, and stockyards to find the extreme unacceptable conditions the animals were in. In 1985, Baur became a vegan, and founded the Farm Sanctuary in 1986 to rescue animals who were in cruel conditions. 30 years later, Baur is still going strong to end the cruel action of slaughtering by rescuing animals, being a vegan, and even having facilities shut down like Lancaster Stockyard in Lancaster County, PA (Baur).
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