Factory farms are large, industrial, facilities designed to house thousands of animals in small, confined spaces in order to produce large amounts of: eggs, meat, and dairy products. Here, chickens, pigs and cows are seen as commodities, and around ten billion of them will be raised and killed in the United States, this year, alone. That’s one million slaughtered per hour! Factory farms dominate U.S food production, while family farms struggle to stay afloat. According to an article by the Humane Farming Association, between 1979 and 1998 the number of U.S farmers have dropped by 300,000 due to their inability to compete. Although factory farms are economically efficient in producing eggs, meat and milk at low costs, they significantly impair
