The Way Our Animals Are Really Being Treated

Solotaroff, Paul. "Animal Cruelty Is the Price We Pay for Cheap Meat | Rolling Stone." Rolling Stone Magazine. N.p., 10 Dec. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.  

In this article I found by Paul Solotaroff, he basically talks about two undercover animal activists who go by the names of Juan and Sarah that go to work on animal farms and witness the harsh living conditions the animals we eat actually go through. Billions of animals such as chickens, cows, and pigs are killed for our consumption every year and sometimes can carry diseases from sitting in their own filth with broken bones and being crammed into small living spaces with other animals unable to see the light of day.There’s been laws and bills passed, such as the “Ag-Gag” bill that makes it illegal to take a farm job undercover and to keep the way industrial farms treat their animals a secret from the public. One of the undercover activists says that they’re not doing this to end meat farms but to end the way they raise treat the animals before they are slaughtered and placed onto our dinner tables.

I think that this article might be helpful with the research project that we will be working on because it talks about what big meat companies are actually doing to the animals that we eat. I eat meat and chicken at least once or twice a week and personally I would like the animals that I eat from to be treated with proper and decent care. I think that if these kinds of companies changed the way they take care of the animals it could potentially lower the risks of catching diseases or getting food poisoned.