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Why a study on such factors important(inhumane factory farming)

Answer 1

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The rearing of farm animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by treating animals not as sentient creatures, but as production units. Raised by the thousands at a single location, animals are confined in such tight quarters that they can barely move, let alone behave normally.

1. Four or more egg-laying hens are packed into a battery cage, a wire enclosure so small that none can spread her wings. Being held in such close confines, the hens peck at each other’s feathers and bodies.
2. Pregnant sows spend each of their pregnancies confined to a gestation crate—a metal enclosure that is scarcely wider and longer than the sow herself. Unable to even turn around, sows develop abnormal behaviors, and suffer leg problems and skin lesions.
3. Growing pigs are confined to slatted, bare, concrete floors. Stressed by crowding and boredom, they frequently resort to biting and inflicting wounds upon their penmates.
4. In factory dairies, cows spend their entire lives confined to concrete. To boost production, some cows are injected with the growth hormone rBGH, leading to lameness and mastitis, a painful infection of the udder.

In order to facilitate confinement of these animals in such stressful, crowded, unsanitary conditions, painful mutilations like cutting off the horns of cattle, cutting off the beaks of chickens, and docking the tails of sheep, pigs, and dairy cattle are routinely performed.

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Answer 2

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A study on the prevailing conditions of the factories is important to ensure the welfare and well being of the animals. They are abused, kept in unhygienic conditions and even exploited to the extent that they fall sick. Hence, to minimise such ruthless treatments, it is important.

Some of the inhumane factory practices are given below:

1.Confinement of animals in small, closed and unhygienic conditions.

2. Forced breeding/forced feeding.

3. Animals are often injected with hormones to increase the production of milk.

4. Painful practices adopted such as dehorning, tail docking, etc. without providing any anaesthesia to the animals