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Jethel Adasa

Professor Batty

English 101

11 November 2019

Mistreatments of Animals Should be Stopped

Coming from a family that is a huge meat consumer, it stokes my heart reading articles

like Peter Singer’s “The Ethics of Eating” illustrated how meat consumption has been increasing

lately and animals have been mistreated and being fed by inappropriate food so that producers

could produce meats. In the Philippines, most people eat meat, but little did we know that

animals were being mistreated by the producers to supply more for the consumers. Globally,

more and more people have been eating meat, but in order for the people to have the food we eat

almost every day, these animals couldn’t have the justice of living and do their own thing.

Consuming meat is a norm for most of the individual but most of these animals still need to be

treated decently and a minimal life of their own. Forcing these animals to produce more could

only lead to an unhealthy product that could cause environmental disease and is very dangerous

for the consumers. The best way consumers could do is to lessen the meat consumption and not

support these methods that are cruel to animals which plays a huge part in the food sources that

individuals consume on their day to day basis.

People have been consuming a generous amount of meat and certain farming methods

need to be cruel in order to produce more meat for consumers. Even if there is a huge demand for

meat production, it doesn’t mean that these animals should be treated poorly. Due to the huge

consumption of meat products even if the animals are still young they are being mistreated and
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being away from their parents. According to Peter Singer, “The consumption of veal has fallen

sharply since it became widely known that to produce "white"--actually pale pink-- veal,

newborn calves are separated from their mothers” (Singer). This is extremely alarming because

an increase in meat consumption could cause cruelty and brutal to these animals. The leading

meat consumers are Europe and North America and the people should slowly limit themselves to

consuming meat because increased consumption of meat could also lead to certain heart diseases

and causes of obesity in the United States is very common.

The mistreatment of these animals could lead to unhealthy meat products. Most of these

animals are being kept in small crates and being fed with foods that shouldn’t be fed for them.

When Singer states, “mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef’s

image as a portion of safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was

caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep” (Singer). This clearly shows that

certain animals were not being taken care of because cows should be eating grass but

surprisingly, they were being fed with a sheep’s internal organs which is extremely absurd.

Animals should be treated nicely because they are one of the main sources of food for

most people, and sick animals could also lead to sick consumers. Mistreating these animals could

only result in unhealthy products. People should not support this type of method because it is

very cruel to animals. This situation matters the most because if this continues, more and more

animals would get sick and this would be very unhealthy for the consumers that could mostly

leat to diseases. We the people have the power to refuse and change the way animals producers

supply our daily needs, and so mistreating animals should not be necessary.
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Works Cited

Singer, Peter. “‘The Ethics of Eating.’” ​The Ethics of Eating, by Peter Singer​,

https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200606--.htm.