In human farming methods of detrimental to both crops and animals
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This puts animals at risk of problems such as lameness, broken bones and organ failure. Factory farming systems demand fast-growing or high-yielding animals. They achieve this through selective breeding and the use of concentrated feed. This puts the animals at risk of developing often-painful physiological problems.
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1. “Intensive Farming” aka Factory-Farming. Animals are profit-making objects. Workers are paid minimum wage or just over. Workers paid by quantity produced rather than hourly. This makes for hasty work with little care for consequences. Go figure.
2. Crowded conditions → Poor sanitation → need to disinfect = excessive use of feed antibiotics ALL of which ends up guess-where.
3. Hi-tech farming methods begin and end with genetic engineering - whether by gene-splicing or selective breeding or some combination of the two… Top-dollar PhD “experts” are employed by mega- corporations whose methods few question all aimed at producing the “super-laying” hens , “super-tender” “broiler” chicken population or extra massive milk producers who are so laden upon reaching adulthood and being artificially impregnated for the sixth or seventh time she can barely stand as she mourns her latest calf now either in a veal crate (young steers) of soon to follow her (cows) after carrying them for nine and a half months… and whose life expectancy is but a fraction of what it is in nature. Her thanks for giving it her all? Slaughter.
4. Improper waste removal as holding ponds rival natural ones in size and quantity and are reservoirs for raw animal sewage which ends up at best as runoff during heavy rains and worst sprayed deliberately on the homes and property of low-income neighbor residents… all this has been documented and can be found by googling. Try Care2 petition site and do a search. And that’s just for starters.
5. Live Export. You want to get me started? Countries like Australia can be counted on to supply live farm-raised animals to ME Abattoirs where slaughter in the cruelest of manners is a practiced art. Cows are placed in restraining devices which immobilize their head and neck then rotated inverted to make access to the animal’s throat a simple matter with a knife-wielding executioner.
Makes you hungry just thinking about it doesn’t it.
Sorry have to stop. And haven’t even gotten started on the studies we did on Florida dairy farms where animals crowded into squirming masses up to one hundred strong wading knee-deep in their own muddy filth where the ground is one big sponge and it rains six mos out of the year almost daily. PERFECT location to raise cattle. (Nineteenth Century Wisdom).
There is so much more. Open your eyes. Act. It doesn’t have to be this way.