What are you really eating? “If you follow the food chain back from those shrink-wrapped packages of meat, you find a very different reality. The reality is a factory. It’s not a farm. It’s a factory.” (Pollan Food Inc.) This quote explains the harsh reality of what our farms have become. Our farms have changed from the green pastures depicted on the front of food products, to huge factories that are hidden from the public because the factories owners don’t want people to know what their “farms” have become. Factory farms use controversial techniques in order to make more money at the price of the environment, animal abuse, and our health. Factory farms have a huge effect on the environment which include waste pollution and air pollution.
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Chickens and turkeys are the most abused animals in factory farms. Male chickens and turkeys are slaughtered in factory farms because they can’t produce eggs and are seen as useless. The factory is trying to produce as many eggs as fast as possible so that they can increase their profits. Female chickens and turkeys are raised in factory farms to “produce more than 250 eggs annually, compared to 100 eggs annually a century ago.” According to www.farmsanctuary.org. This is an alarming statistic because the only way for the chickens to yield that many eggs is to feed them huge amounts of growth hormones which is harmful to the chickens and humans. The chicken and turkeys are very confined in factory farms. The chickens and turkeys are stuffed in cages called battery cages. These cages hold between five and ten chickens or turkeys, and they are so cramped that the animals don’t have enough room to expand their feathers. The average lifespan of chickens and turkeys is between five and eight years. A chicken or turkey raised on an actual farm lifespan is between “eight to ten years.” According to www.mypetchicken.com. A chicken that isn’t raised on factory farm lives at least two years longer an at most live five years longer than they would on a factory
Chickens and turkeys are the most abused animals in factory farms. Male chickens and turkeys are slaughtered in factory farms because they can’t produce eggs and are seen as useless. The factory is trying to produce as many eggs as fast as possible so that they can increase their profits. Female chickens and turkeys are raised in factory farms to “produce more than 250 eggs annually, compared to 100 eggs annually a century ago.” According to www.farmsanctuary.org. This is an alarming statistic because the only way for the chickens to yield that many eggs is to feed them huge amounts of growth hormones which is harmful to the chickens and humans. The chicken and turkeys are very confined in factory farms. The chickens and turkeys are stuffed in cages called battery cages. These cages hold between five and ten chickens or turkeys, and they are so cramped that the animals don’t have enough room to expand their feathers. The average lifespan of chickens and turkeys is between five and eight years. A chicken or turkey raised on an actual farm lifespan is between “eight to ten years.” According to www.mypetchicken.com. A chicken that isn’t raised on factory farm lives at least two years longer an at most live five years longer than they would on a factory