Factory Farming

Dear Editor, Factory farming as a whole is very cruel to animals. Now, I don’t have a problem with people eating animals, but I do have a problem when the animal isn’t given a good life. With smaller farms, the animals have space to roam, interact with each other, and are given proper care; factory farms, however aren’t like that. In factories, the animals are confined to small cages barely bigger than their bodies. Chicken’s typical cages are only a few feet wide and are the height of the chicken itself; with pigs and cows, they don’t even have space to move. The animals also

Dear Editor, face mutilation like debeaking and tail docking. The animal’s life spans are very short, laying hens live for 1.5 years while boiler chickens only live 1.5 months old, keeping in mind chickens can live up to 5-10 years. Pigs are killed before they are even a year old when they can live 15-20 years. With cows killed for meat around 2-3 years old, but with veal they are only a few months old and can live up to 15-20 years. I feel like we should care more about the animals providing us with food and give them a better and longer life before they are killed.

RIO RICE, 9

Anti AI

Of all the nonsense artists have had to endure this year thanks to tech-bros not having an ounce of creativity or respect for artists, AI “art” is the worst yet. AI art is the epitome of the abuse artists must suffer at the hands of creatively and morally bankrupt people who steal their labor to maximize profits. The vast majority of AI art is sourced from work stolen from artists in order to create a pale imitation of the passion and skill required to make an actual art piece. Most AI art seems to fall into one of two categories: generic anime characters with conveniently cropped out hands or landscapes that look worse the longer you look at them. This art has no message, purpose, or passion behind it, and it only serves to discourage artists from sharing their works when they know that their already tenuous financial future is even more at stake when they know that at any moment their work can be stolen by “nftLuvr411” just so they can train their AI that still cannot draw hands to create as many generic anime people as possible.

ANDRES ORTIZ, 11

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Dear Editor,

As we may know our schools are characterized for taking students special talents and taking them to their maximum potential, all staff belonging to the school have a responsibility with these special students and are sure to give them the resources necessary for their correct development. For this many professional athletes come from Florida’s schools. Even if it is great the support our sport district receives, for no one is a secret that the same treatment isn’t applied to other segments, for example dancing, music, culture, fashion, etc. Especially for music, the lack of support is evident; little to no classes offered being only to my knowledge guitar and AP music theory, zero information about different clubs unless you research thoroughly in the school’s online page, resulting in the only option for continuing a musical education through really expensive classes that not everyone can afford. Being Eagles, we should be given the opportunity to use our talents, but when the required resources aren’t offered it turns into a loss of human potential.

NICOLE PARRA, 11

Teacher Pay

Dear Editor,

Recently there was a rally to promote teachers’ pay and school funding in Tallahassee, after Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed boosting the minimum teacher pay to $47,500. His proposal would cost around $900 million, including the bonus program for educators. This cost concerns House speaker Jose Olivia but is seen as not enough for Florida teachers. I support teachers having higher pay, but also express concerns of an increase in taxes that would affect my parents as well. Issues like these cause people to decide whether the result outweighs the cost. Is there a good compromise or will teacher pay continue to cause controversy?

KAITLYN LARSON, 10

Uninhabitable

Dear Editor,

A state issue we are having in Florida is habitat fragmentation and urbanization. Habitat fragmentation is when animal’s habitats are cut up into boxes because of surrounding barriers built by humans, such as roads, highways and towns. This is also where urbanization comes in as a problem, because the more we urbanize natural land and wildlife, the more we destroy animal’s habitats and niches. For example, certain parts of the Everglades have roads connecting west Florida to east Florida; these roads are barriers of habitats and fragment them, moving animals into smaller areas than they once were in, or causing the animals to have to move to a larger area away from their native habitat. This can be dangerous for an animal, possibly introducing it to new predators and making it search for a new place to have its niche. Overall, habitat fragmentation in Florida is an issue especially because of the rich wildlife of the Everglades we have here, we need to protect this wildlife, not break it up into pieces.

REID KALVAITIS, 10