On today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices.
These animals will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural and important to them.
Most won’t even feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they’re loaded onto trucks headed for slaughterhouses.
The factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs—always at the animals’ expense.
The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection.
Animals on factory farms endure constant fear and torment:
- They’re often given so little space that they can’t even turn around or lie down comfortably. Egg-laying hens are kept in small cages, chickens and pigs are kept in jam-packed sheds, and cows are kept on crowded, filthy feedlots.
- Antibiotics are used to make animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions. Research shows that factory farms’ widespread use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.
- Most factory-farmed animals have been genetically manipulated to grow larger or to produce more milk or eggs than they naturally would. Some chickens grow so unnaturally large that their legs cannot support their out-sized bodies, and they suffer from starvation or dehydration when they can’t walk to reach food and water.
When they’ve grown large enough to slaughter or their bodies have been worn out from producing milk or eggs, animals raised for food are crowded onto trucks and transported for miles through all weather extremes, typically without food or water.
At the slaughterhouse, those who survived the transport will have their throats slit, often while they’re still conscious.
Many remain conscious when they’re plunged into the scalding-hot water of the de-feathering or hair-removal tanks or while their bodies are being skinned or hacked apart.
ABC Flash Point Factory Farming Blog News 2019.
The result of evil capitalism?
If people see how animals for consumption are slaughtered most of them would stop eating them for sure!
I agree.
For sure
How would you like it if you had to live this way??
Outrageous, what we eat is what we get to be, capice?
Lidl German supermarket which sells cut price food and goods has been exposed for buying chickens from Lower Saxony which are crammed together on a filthy floor with piles of excreta and dead and rotting chicklets – Equalia / Albert Schweitzer Foundation.
Unbelievable behavior selling tortured and physically abused animals and other poisoned food products to enhance the health of its deprived client population?
What we eat is what we grow into, genetically modified humans through food sources, while poisoning fruits and vegetables with pesticides, just to make sure the campaign works?
And so factory agriculture destroying habitat for wild animals.
Consuming tortured meat leaves up to negative vibes in the human body as well?
Factory farming is bad for animals and humans alike?
We all eat rotten meat and chicken, disguised with colored ingredients and smell dis-tractors?
Factory Farming is is horrible!! But so are these cultures that torture and slit these beautiful animals throat in the dirt all for some religious sacrifices!!! All Animals Should Be Respected and not live in constant fear!! Can anyone on here, please explain to me, what it is when a large hole is dug and people hook up 2 animals ( usually bulls) to the wooden plank or log in the center of the hole and made to run endless circles attached together? What is this called? And what purpose does it serve? I just don’t understand. But I see… Read more »
At your service …..lets hope the minds of the people will adjust in order to minimize animal torture.
So sad to read those descriptions of how animals are treated. And all of it is just to feed overweight Americans who already eat too much meat.
Humans are selfish monsters with no consideration for animals. A convicted killer has more rights than any beautiful animal
Good point ……
Factory farms r the CRUELEST—-ALL NEED TO BE SHUT DOWN!!!!!
These so-called farmers have no heart for the animals en-shortened life cycles.
I can’t stand how people treat animals,I won’t say what I would do to them. Would they like it in a cage pregnancy,to give birth all the time.like pigs cows.
And what we eat is what we get to be, amazing self inflicting attitude ………???
Please donate to Compassion in World Farming if you can. They do try to tackle the horror of dairy industry. You CAN stop drinking cow’s milk, it’s Nature’s gift for their calves NOT YOU.