What is wrong with industrial farming?
Factory farms are horrible for animals, the environment and humans.
A couple of decades ago, farmers realized that reducing the space and adding more animals, giving them growth hormone to accelerate their growing and steroids, they could grow 2 or 3 times their normal size to increase the muscles instead of fat, so they could make more money in less time, so the farmers took the animals from the fields were they could graze freely under the sun, and locked them indoors in a permanent way, started to feed them with hormones, steroids and antibiotics to combat the illnesses that the animals started to suffer from their abnormal body sizes in the small cages or stalls, and feed them with animals parts to minimize the expenses of their food supply, such as grains, grass and other natural food resource of farm animals.
This new generation of animals designed this way, suffers from birth to death in tiny and often overcrowded places.
Pigs
Sow stalls don’t allow the sows to even turn around and as soon as the piglets are a bit old, they rape them to make them pregnant again. A couple of years later, when she "is wasted" after all the rapes and pregnancies, or can't reproduce anymore, they are taken away for the first time and if they can't walk (because they never did it before), the employees often beat and kick them repeatedly.
Pigs in gestation crates
Pigs are designed to grow so much to produce the double of muscles so they can't walk at all, their legs get broken because they can't support their weight. Pigs also get heart failure, kidney, and liver diseases.
Veal
"Veal" means newborn calves taken away just after their mothers give birth, and are cruelly tied by the neck on a small crate, avoiding them to walk or even move at all for 10 weeks to have a soft flesh, while lying on their own excrement all this time and then when finally they are release, is just to slaughter them.
Veal crates
Hens
Egg laying hens when born are debeaked, which means that they to cut off their beaks with a hot guillotine without anaesthetic, for them not to hurt each other due to stress and frustration, but often they bleed to dead. They are kept in overcrowded cages with 8 to 12 hens in each one. Where a chicken can spread her wings that is the space they have for all, making it impossible to turn around and move. They often stand on chicken wire, which cuts their fingers. Normal chickens produce one egg every now and then; these ones produce 1 a day. When they get all sick due to the food, lack of space and calcium (all goes to the unnatural over production of egg shells), the bones of their legs and wings breaks, they suffer from heart, liver and all sort of health problems. Often, the employees toss them to a pile of dying or already dead hens and then are thrown to the garbish. If they survive, they are killed to be consumed by humans and cats/dogs.
Battery hens
Cows
These animals produce normally about 4 litres of milk a day to feed their calf. In the US and other countries, they are known to produce up to 60-64 litres of milk a day, they have machines pumping their milk most of the day for 15 minutes intervals, but if employees are busy or neglect them, the machines start to suck up blood and pus from the udders. These cows often suffer of mastitis. Any human breastfeeding mother that has suffered of mastitis knows the unbearable agony of this. When they don't produce enough milk, they are raped again, so they have another calf that is taken away for "veal" production. When the cow wears out, they are killed for human consumption.
Geese/ducks
Geese are brutally forcefed for 12-18 days inserting a tube down their stomachs to make their liver enlarge. The animals are killed, the liver is taken out and the famous French Paté de foie is made.
All these animals are given the growth hormone and steroids to lay more eggs, produce so much milk, grow more muscles instead of fat, going against mother nature. They are fed among all these chemicals animal parts, so that is where the mad cow decease comes from or how even the bird flu may spread from chickens and hens having to eat the food made from wasted chicks and ill hens that is given to them.
The life span of these animals reduces considerable and cows and pigs only live for a couple of years. The way how they are genetically manipulated, they reach sexual maturity in days or weeks instead of months or even years.
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