Inhumane Treatment of Farm Animals

Factory farms are often cruel to their animals. Pregnant pigs are trapped in small boxes that are hardly moving, and chickens are squeezed together in thousands of poultry houses to save money. The calf remains in it, so the meat does not get dark. Since cattle and chickens are pumped with many chemicals and hormones, they produce more milk and eggs than they produce naturally, and broken, too small or unnecessary piglets are cruelly killed I like it, throw it away like garbage.

HSUS is concerned about inhumane treatment of livestock. Animals are sensational, sensuous and have no life. It is not inanimate objects. I visited Poland several years ago and got the opportunity to visit Majdanek Naj concentration / extinction near Lublin. The barracks where the prisoners who were waiting for the tragic life of the extinction lived were CAFO's lined in the Midwestern Road where animals were living under similar circumstances and had similar fate I felt terribly reminded of the building. There is no humanized "concentration camp"

Regarding public concern about inhumane handling of farm animals, public relations activities insist that CAFO operators have economic incentives to deal with their animals well to maintain their health and productivity To do. Indeed, CAFO operators send animals to slaughter when young, before most injuries and chronic diseases cause weight loss and death. For example, the chicken's life is 7 to 20 years, but today's broiler is slaughtered for 6 to 8 weeks and the chicken lay eggs for about 18 months. CAFO cattle are lucky for four to five years, about one-third of the normal life of healthy cattle. The longevity of pigs is 10 to 15 years, but they die in 5 to 6 months. Indeed, CAFO operators believe that animals that are sick or dying are undesirable for doing business, but they are the economic costs required. In addition to the impact on economic profits, the physical and mental well-being of diseases and animals dying are not taken into account.

Public confidence in American agriculture is compromised by GM crops, inhumane treatment of farm animals, and everyday antibiotic feeding in restricted animals - and many other problems. Correspondingly, so-called defenders of modern agriculture hired a leading PR company to try to clean their damaged public image. Their activities highlight issues such as water quality, food safety, animal welfare, and "food prices and choices". More and more scientific evidence supports increasingly general interest in these areas. For example, according to the 1998 US Environmental Protection Agency survey, 35,000 miles of 22 cities streams were contaminated with intensive livestock biological waste. Since the industrial agricultural system such as the factory farm replaced the traditional family farm, the number of "damaged waters" in Iowa province has tripled since the latter half of the 1980s.