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The Invisible Killer
Factory farming cause illness in humans
Nowadays as more factories are making products in order to be sold to local markets, the higher the risk for side effects like diseases will occur. Factory farming involves the system of using highly intensive methods on the populations of farm animals such as cows, chickens, pigs and others.
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The action of placing thousands of animals and keeping them in a tiny space depriving them of all their natural instincts, you will most-likely be creating a breeding ground disease, and when it starts to spread, it will spread like wildfire. As most experienced farmers should know by now, they should separate all kind of animals and only put them together with their own species to avoid any of this diseases from occurring.
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One example of the illness that was caused by factory farming which was pretty serious since few years ago which is the “mad cow disease/Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)”. This is a fatal disease that slowly destroys the brain and spinal cord in cattle. People cannot get mad cow disease but however in rare cases they can get a human form of mad cow disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which also can cause death. This kills the cows and turned into an infected cow, then if human consume an infected cow will not become sick right away but it takes time to cause side effects estimated around few months or years later. The image below shows an 11-year-old beef cow in Alabama recently tested positive for the brain disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is also known as the mad cow disease.
In conclusion, everyone as well as farmer too should take note and precaution in factory farming. Lessen this action every day to lower the risk of these disease from coming back to infect the animals that everyone will consume daily. Everyone include animals too want to live in a peaceful life with no disease infected to their body and slowly kills them, so we should all protect every living creature on earth and this a better place to live in harmony.
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Written by: Dominic. P 17th of july 2020
References:
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https://www.livescience.com/59884-mad-cow-disease-alabama.html
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