scale farms. Instead, a full 99 percent of our
farm animals are raised and slaughtered in
assembly-line fashion in mass-production
operation known as “factory farming.”
Factory farms don’t have the green
pastures and red barns most Americans
imagine when they think of farms. Instead,
factory farms are large industrial facilities
that produce food in high volume with little to
no regard for the health of the animals or the
consumers.
Factory-farmed animals are denied the
most basic aspects of their natural
environments. They are confined in tight
quarters (often indoors, crowded together in
pens or cages), with no room for movement or
normal behaviors and with minimal, if any,
access to sunlight and fresh air.
Because of their congested and unsanitary
living conditions, the animals are dosed with
preventative antibiotics to ward off disease.