Subsidies As a direct result of factory farms, CAFOs, and AFOs being so big, they go through a tremendous amount of feed. To help factory farms produce meat at a fast rate and a cheap price, the government provides them with direct and indirect subsidies. According to Richards and Richards (2012). Without these feed discounts accounting to a 5 to 15% reduction in operating costs, it is unlikely that many of these industrial farms could remain profitable.” Since these farms are not paying for all their own feed, it makes it easy for society to believe that big animal operations are economically efficient when they would not be profitable without government subsidies being given to them. Even though, this is not one of the biggest problems with
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They are packed into cages very tightly and some animals such as pigs never see sunlight until going to slaughter. The effects of packing these animals so tightly is stress which can cause sickness and disease. Animals in these tightly packed, disease infested cages also deal with physical alterations. Without using any kind of anesthesia or pain killer hens and chickens are often debeaked so they do not peck one another, cattle horns are removed, bulls are castrated and lastly dairy cows and pigs also get their tails docked. As a result of the animals not getting anesthesia or painkillers, they animals suffer through extreme pain and have no control over what is happening to them (Heinzen and Russ 2014). Living conditions and physical alterations are not even the worst thing these animals go through. Taylor Radig from Colorado, applied for a job on a factory farm where she went undercover. Radig recorded her co-workers mistreating the animals by lifting the calf’s tails, pulling them by their ears, kicking them, throwing them, and flipping them into trailers where they would land on their necks. Some would not survive this treatment and the ones that did Radig recorded them. She found that the ones that did survive were immobile and left to die and covered in flies (Fiber-Ostrow and Lovell 2016). Animals are used as meat and that is their purpose, but they should not be treated like property.
They are packed into cages very tightly and some animals such as pigs never see sunlight until going to slaughter. The effects of packing these animals so tightly is stress which can cause sickness and disease. Animals in these tightly packed, disease infested cages also deal with physical alterations. Without using any kind of anesthesia or pain killer hens and chickens are often debeaked so they do not peck one another, cattle horns are removed, bulls are castrated and lastly dairy cows and pigs also get their tails docked. As a result of the animals not getting anesthesia or painkillers, they animals suffer through extreme pain and have no control over what is happening to them (Heinzen and Russ 2014). Living conditions and physical alterations are not even the worst thing these animals go through. Taylor Radig from Colorado, applied for a job on a factory farm where she went undercover. Radig recorded her co-workers mistreating the animals by lifting the calf’s tails, pulling them by their ears, kicking them, throwing them, and flipping them into trailers where they would land on their necks. Some would not survive this treatment and the ones that did Radig recorded them. She found that the ones that did survive were immobile and left to die and covered in flies (Fiber-Ostrow and Lovell 2016). Animals are used as meat and that is their purpose, but they should not be treated like property.