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Suffering
When you go out to eat and look at your thick and juicy T-bone steak what
do you think about? When you look at that gorgeous mink coat in the department
store what is going through your mind? When you here that cigarette smoke causes
cancer in lab animals what is the first thing that comes to mind? Chances are
that in each of these cases you were not thinking about how the cow suffered
while it was being fattened up, ho painful the trap was that caught those mink,
or the conditions those lab animals hat to endure to develop that cancer. Most
people do not think about these things. However, in this paper, you will be
enlightened on the pain and suffering of animals in three different industries
and you will also hear from the other side of this issue. First, one of the
biggest culprits of animal suffering is the animal food industry. This is an
industry in which people have a tendency to block out or ignore the animal
mistreatment; this is done by disassociating oneself with the direct harm and
ignoring the indirect harm (Harnack 133). A good start under this example in the
case of pigs. Normally, pigs are intelligent animals capable of showing
affection. They have very good senses of smell, which is why pigs have been used
as hunting animals (Coats 31). This normal behavior is disrupted however in the
food industry. Pigs are taken to slaughter at about twenty-four weeks of age
when they are approximately 220 pounds (Coats 32). Pigs are usually mass-caged
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