Animal Cruelty

Question 1

Living conditions

Answer 1

• According to World Animal Protection each year more than 700 million chickens are produced for meat in Australia and most are factory farmed in sheds with more than 40,000 birds which is legal, millions of chickens each year living in these fiendish conditions.
• While the CSIRO Model Code of Practice states there should be a maximum of 1,500 hens per hectare on an outdoor range, giving each hen a minimum of 6.6 square metres of exploration space per animal during the day, the government standard allows for a maximum of 10,000 hens per hectare, meaning a hen only gets 1 sqm of outdoor space, the space equivalent to 4 hens on a double bed.

Question 2

genetic effect on animals

Answer 2

• Turns out for poultry farmers like Craig Watts, this is not an unusual sight in these farms. With scientists calculating that if humans grow at a similar rate that chickens grew for poultry farming a 3 kg newborn baby would weigh 300 kg after two months.
• These shocking breeding standards coupled with crowded living conditions mean they often suffer a myriad of problems including lameness, respiratory issues, heart problems, disease, chemical burns on their bodies and feet, infections, and of course, death.
• Purdue University animal sciences professor Bill Muir was part of an international research team that analysed the genetic lines of commercial chickens and found that commercial birds are missing more than half of the genetic diversity native to the species, possibly leaving them vulnerable to new diseases and raising questions about their long-term sustainability.
• Muir suggested that interbreeding with native poultry could attempt to improve genetic diversity however much of the commercial chickens have been selectively bred, losing most of their diversity.
• Studies have reported that a substantial percentage of poultry farms use antibiotics, with some indicating that a majority (e.g., 74%) of farmers use them.

Question 3

Language techniques

Answer 3

• Imagine chicken cage and life - Imagery
• Cruel care - Oxymoron
• The question is not whether we should be eating chicken, but whether we can produce it without turning a blind eye to suffering. Do you choose to stand up against animal cruelty? Will you be brave enough to take a stand? - rhetorical question
• Caged, imprisoned, cramped. - truncated sentences/tricolon
• Born into life but buried in waste, the tragic irony of existing in an environment that feels more like a death sentence - juxtaposition
• Free-range doesn’t mean cruelty free-it is just cruelty with a better costume. - metaphor
• End exploitation—ensure ethical treatment! - alliteration
• modern chickens are effectively born into a genetic prison. Their bodies are their cages. - metaphor
• Bones broken. Organs burst. Eyes popped. - truncated/emotive as confronting
• Pumping chickens full of antibiotics is like inflating a balloon until it bursts—unnatural, dangerous, and bound to end in suffering, which is demonstrated through its contribution to the unnatural rapid growth through improving feed efficiency. - similie
• In this world, why do we value profit more than pain? Where is your humanity? Where do your values lie? - rhetorical questions
• We demand dignity, defend defenseless animals! - alliteration

Question 4

Opposing paragraph

Answer 4

• Better Health Channel stating that vegan diets can lack essential nutrients like B12, iron, omega-3s, and complete proteins if not done correctly
• We know that conditions for chickens are not adequately demonstrated through more than 75% of test subjects saying no, when confronted with a photograph of a typical industrial-scale chicken coop and asking “would you be happy to buy a chicken from here?
• With 12.5 percent of Australians now adopting vegetarian or vegan lifestyles through research conducted by Roy Morgan,
• With the Australian Chicken Meat Federation estimating that around 30% of the chickens farmed not making it to the shelves

Question 5

policies

Answer 5

• We beseech you to take action, to employ policies that ensure regular cleaning and upkeep of these farms and urge you to work with RSPCA in enforcing these laws through regular checkups and evaluations
• So we urge you to employ policies to upgrade the size requirements for farms to the CSIRO’s recommendation and enforce the correct labelling of chickens with technical legal terms such as RSPCA approved and MCoP standard to prevent the misinformation about these processes.
• We implore you as people of authority to create policies to control and minimise selective breedings, by requiring the breeding of chickens to be done with native and with chickens of different traits, to not only attempt to improve genetic diversity but to minimise the suffering of broiler chickens.
• We beseech you to take action and to tighten regulations surrounding antibiotic resistance dosages minimising their frequency and placing harsher restrictions on their access, through systems that track dosages.
• by making policies about living requirement and genetic breeding which will in turn help increase the efficiency of this sector reducing the number of deaths associated with cramped living environments and adverse health effects from rapid growth.