Why the animals we eat should have a right to a quality way of life

Food poisoning has been a relatively small problem in the early years, but in the past fifty years it has become a big issue. This is because the food we eat now has more of this bacteria, than food fifty years ago. The way we grow animals now is much more unsanitary and in return we get these sicknesses that animals didn’t usually have.    Animals should have a right to quality of life because diseases develop if you have a bad quality of life. For instance, the quality of feed the animals has changed. We used to feed animals grass and hay, the things those animals digestive tracks are built for. Now its high starch corn feed. Cows are not designed to eat corn at all, there digestive track was build around processing grass. Grass is carbohydrates and a little bit of protein as well as fibre, and lignin, and silica. Corn is all starchy carbohydrates and the cows stomach does not agree with it.  Also, The quality of living has changed. The cows of fifty years ago were all free range cows, which means they were very large plots of land an very few cows so crowding and manure control was very small and easy. The cows ate grass and dropped manure which gave grass nutrients to regrow. Now the same number of cows on the large plots would be forced in an area a fourth of the size. Also, these small plots get filled with more manure because there is no grass to absorb the nutrient. In return the cows walk around in their own manure creating diseased meat. So, when the consumer, us, eat this meat we end up with the disease that cow had. Some disagree that the old ways don’t produce enough to feed our growing population. However, would you as the consumer want meat that has bacteria and other bad germs that could potentially kill you. If we got rid of the plots the major companies use now and replaced them with grassy planes were about the same amount of cows roamed free, there would be less bacteria in our food and in return less sick people. In the end it’s common sense to give the animals we eat better food and living areas. Animals are living things. How would we feel if we were forced to eat food that made us sick and lived in our own feces.