Animal Factories Replacing Traditional Farms

With corporate factories replacing traditional animal farms, it is not difficult to find workers in animal factories kicking cows, ramming them with the blades of a forklift, jabbing them in the eyes, applying painful electrical shocks and even torturing them with a hose and water in attempts to force sick or injured animals to walk to slaughter. See Downer Cow Syndrome (http://www.copperwiki.org/index.php/Downer_Cow_Syndrome)

Cost Saving More Important

Just like other factories, animal factories are constantly searching for ways to shave their costs. To save money, they've redefined what constitutes animal feed, with little consideration of what is best for the animals or for human health. As a result, many of the ingredients used in feed these days are not the kind of food the animals are designed by nature to eat.

What are they fed?

* Same Species Meat

* Diseased Animals

* Feathers, Hair, Skin, Hooves, and Blood

* Manure and Other Animal Waste

* Plastics

* Drugs and Chemicals

* Unhealthy Amounts of Grains

Most animals are still allowed to eat meat from their own species. Pig carcasses can be rendered and fed back to pigs, chicken carcasses can be rendered and fed back to chickens, and turkey carcasses can be rendered and fed back to turkeys. Even cattle can still be fed cow blood and some other cow parts.

Unwise and Inhumane Feeding

Over the last 50 years there has been a dramatic change in the way animals are fed. Unwise and inhumane approaches to raising animals in animal factories have led to mad cow disease, increased liver abscesses, and rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, increased liver abscesses, and the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Food for animals are no longer raised in farms but in crowded animal factories known as large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Just like other factories animal factories too always look for ways to cut costs, without consideration about what is good for both animals and humans. Animals are designed by nature to eat a kind of food. Ingredients used in factory feed do not meet these requirements.

A cow eating a normal grass diet is unable to produce milk at the abnormal levels expected in modern dairies, and so today's dairy cows must be given high energy feeds. The unnaturally rich diet causes metabolic disorders including ketosis, which can be fatal, and laminitis, which causes lameness.

For further reading on Inhumane treatment to animals refer to:

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