Their Misery is Now Becoming Our Own
When people think of where their food comes from, they often think of the stereotypical black and white spotted cows grazing in spacious fields, with a red barn in the background, living out their days happy and healthy. But this old fashioned image is far from the truth; in reality, they live confined in overcrowded facilities covered in their own feces. These facilities are frequently referred to as factory farms. A factory farm (as described by the Merriam Webster Dictionary) is “a large industrialized farm; especially : a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost”. Although factory farming does allow meat to be cheaper, …show more content…
The biggest issue the majority of people seem to find with factory farming is their complete mistreatment of the animals raised there. A huge example of that is the “broiler”. The “broiler” is the type of chicken commonly raised in factory farms. The factory farms have changed the anatomy of a chicken into a creature “with unnaturally large “white meat” breasts and bones that can’t support their obese and disproportionate bodies”,and live in awful conditions where, “many of these birds spend most of their lives lying down in their own waste with open sores and wounds that act as gateways to infection”. Because of the high demand for white meat, factory farms made the chickens have such large breasts that the chickens can not support themselves upright so they spend much of their time lying on the ground. The actual “home” of the chickens, are long building crowded with birds, with absolutely no light. As with many animals that are kept in such confined spaces, the chickens often become aggressive. To prevent cannibalism they cut off the end of the chicken 's beak and toes, without anesthetic. Because of this, many chickens are not able to eat and end up dying of starvation. They do the same thing to swine except for instead of cutting off beaks, they cut off tusks and tails. Swine and cattle, unlike the chickens, stay in cages that are so small their body hits the sides of until they are large enough to be taken away and slaughtered. Until their death, none of these animals will ever get to breathe clean air; they will only inhale ammonia day after
When people think of where their food comes from, they often think of the stereotypical black and white spotted cows grazing in spacious fields, with a red barn in the background, living out their days happy and healthy. But this old fashioned image is far from the truth; in reality, they live confined in overcrowded facilities covered in their own feces. These facilities are frequently referred to as factory farms. A factory farm (as described by the Merriam Webster Dictionary) is “a large industrialized farm; especially : a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost”. Although factory farming does allow meat to be cheaper, …show more content…
The biggest issue the majority of people seem to find with factory farming is their complete mistreatment of the animals raised there. A huge example of that is the “broiler”. The “broiler” is the type of chicken commonly raised in factory farms. The factory farms have changed the anatomy of a chicken into a creature “with unnaturally large “white meat” breasts and bones that can’t support their obese and disproportionate bodies”,and live in awful conditions where, “many of these birds spend most of their lives lying down in their own waste with open sores and wounds that act as gateways to infection”. Because of the high demand for white meat, factory farms made the chickens have such large breasts that the chickens can not support themselves upright so they spend much of their time lying on the ground. The actual “home” of the chickens, are long building crowded with birds, with absolutely no light. As with many animals that are kept in such confined spaces, the chickens often become aggressive. To prevent cannibalism they cut off the end of the chicken 's beak and toes, without anesthetic. Because of this, many chickens are not able to eat and end up dying of starvation. They do the same thing to swine except for instead of cutting off beaks, they cut off tusks and tails. Swine and cattle, unlike the chickens, stay in cages that are so small their body hits the sides of until they are large enough to be taken away and slaughtered. Until their death, none of these animals will ever get to breathe clean air; they will only inhale ammonia day after