Animal Farming By Kaitlyn Gilbert

In a physical examination of the Dunn family, their own children serve as poster children of the human body’s vulnerability when introduced to hormone treated meat. When meeting Bunny Dunn’s youngest child, five year old Rose, the film crew could not put their finger on what was strange or dark about this child. However, after reviewing their film they finally come realize that she is a product of exposure to hormones. The scene in the novel go as followed:
His finger tapped the screen where he had zoomed in on Rose’s chest. There, resting on the callused edge of her half-brother’s hand, was a pronounced swelling, which had looked like a bunch of fabric at first but now, up close, had the weight and heft of a woman’s breast. Underneath the

While many animal lovers object and protest against hunting, author Kaitlyn Gilbert makes the argument that hunting may actually be the more considerate and compassionate food gathering technique compared to large scale farming. In her work, Gilbert considers the influence of antibiotics and growth substances, but pays particular attention to the conditions that animals of large scale farms are kept in. She

She include pigs and chickens as well, and paints a vivid image with words of the tight, cramped, and often stacked cages that are cruel and often used for poultry. She illustrates it as, “They receive less than one square foot of room to live in, never being able to spread their wings. The cages are stacked several high, with the waste from one cage entering the one below” (Gilbert). While her descriptions are graphic, they uphold truth. Many of these types of neglectful practices have been exposed by organizations that dedicate their work to the betterment of animal welfare. The disclosing of this type of information allows the public to gain a perspective on the amount, or lack there of, respect that large farming industries have towards animals and the sacrifices made for human consumption. It proves that profit comes before the consumer, and as a result, the consumers are eating animals that spent their entire lives living in their own waste. When connecting the animals surrounding to the human consumer, Gilbert explains how profitable the company is from using careless practices. She states, “owners of such large factory farming companies can make more money by not caring for the nonhuman animals’ basic welfare needs. If the amount of work necessary is minimized, then the cost of employment can also be minimized and the profits of the company can