Factory Farming Benefits

Factory farming is a practice that is used to keep up and sustain the supply and demand for different types of animal meat. A poultry factory farm that will be discussed is Perdue Farms. Perdue Farms is established and operated in the United States and has a processing facility where they raise and slaughter chickens. Perdue Farms is meeting the needs of the consumers by supplying and mass producing poultry for consumption. One may view this of being a success by having a well-established, profitable business that is fulfilling their responsibilities to the consumers. While that may be true, they are not fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the animals. These animals are in close quarters where they are nested in urine and feces. There can even be instances where they will be sitting on or near deceased chickens until their cage is chosen for slaughter. Since these animals are massively produced the use of hormones and antibiotics are used to sustain life and growth. On top of the poor, dirty living conditions these animals are also giving additives that will eventually make it to the consumer. The process has an impact on those employed by the corporation and those who purchase products from them.

Factory farming describes how large modern farms produce food in large quantities for a small cost. Factory farms, however, pollute the air by releasing harmful gases. They practice deforestation to claim more farmland. Factory farms pollute our waters to keep costs low. Factory farming is harming the environment

Even though higher yields are met for demand and human consumption, factory farming is cruel to animals due to the fact animals are often subject to harsh living conditions, more susceptible to diseases and injuries and are treated inhumanely during the slaughtering process. Unfortunately, with an increase in human population worldwide, the strain on farmers to meet the demand increases as well. This in turn causes more animals to be subject to this cruelty.

Twenty decades ago, livestock farmers used to breed their animals in the traditional way where their farm animals were let loose over a large area of farm and allowed to reproduce naturally. Over recent years, a new system of rearing livestock has come into existence which is more popularly known as Factory Farming. Factory Farming makes use of extremely intensive procedures through the use of which poultry, cattle and other livestock are kept indoors under rigid controlled settings. Since this technique has gained much popularity into how food is being produced in America, it is also one of the most debated and controversial concepts. While it is true that using this modern method to produce meat and dairy one can expect greater productivity at a swifter rate, the question still remains- at what cost?

The products of the factory farms can increase in quality by treating the animals humanely. Cleaning up after the animal waste and getting rid of the carcasses will create a better and healthier environment for the animals. Allowing the animals to eat, drink, and rest when at their choice will allow them to grow healthier and not deteriorate as they do now. The protein in the animals will be as it should in a naturally healthy animal, creating a better product.

Factory farms are mass producing and killing animals so they can sell them to fast food restaurants cheaply, “In factory farms, animals are forced to endure inherently cruel and inhumane conditions that deprive them of all their basic instincts. ”(One green planet). The large factory farms are taking all the buyers leaving little to none for the family farms just trying to get by. Factory farms are not needed, “First, at the farm level, our never-ending quest for cheap food is the root cause of the transformation of American Agriculture from a system of small, diversified, independently operated, family farms into a system of large-scale, industrialized, corporately controlled agribusinesses.” Fast food is destroying communities and small farm towns, by getting the cheapest food possible (High cost of cheap food 4).

Factory farming is a large industrialized way of raising animals in large quantities for consumption and is also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) or feedlots. This type of farming started off in the early 1970’s as a way of mass producing eggs, then into the 80’s and 90’s large sheds were created to house pigs for mass pork production. Now “large industrial factory farming accounts for 99.9% of chickens, 97% of chickens for eggs, 99% for turkeys, 95% for pigs and 78% for cattle” (“Factory Farming”). CAFOs and factory farms are facilities that “can house more than 125,000 animals under one roof” (“Ending Factory Farming”).

Factory farms are factories not farms. They feed their animals hormones and antibiotics this makes the animals bigger. Then when people eat them they get sick. Factory farming adversely impacts the environment by polluting the environment,making animals and people sick,and is bad for the economy because of the increased cost of health care and factory farms put traditional farms out of business. Factory Farms adversely impacts the environment by polluting the environment, making animals and people sick, and is bad for the environment for the economy because of the increased cost of health care and factory farms put traditional farms out of business.

Nine billion animals are killed annually in farms in the U.S alone. (A Well-Fed World) Factory farming is horrible for the environment, cruel to animals, and harmful to humans. And for these reasons, factory farming is an appalling business, and should be shut down.

Today meat is in high demand so more and more factory farms are being made. What people do not know is all of the problems with these factory farms compared to a normal farm. They are worse for the consumer for many reasons including animals being more stressed out from how tightly packed they are. Factory farms have a significant amount of manure that affect the air and water quality around them and they do not have a place for it. A normal farm would use the manure to put on a field. Lastly, the spread of disease in a factory farm is unreal. With them being so tightly packed and so many of them one disease could affect every single one of the animals.

Factory farming in my opinion is bad. Why is Factory farming bad? For one factory farming are bad for the economy, people, and the planet. What is factory farming you may ask Factory farming is where large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at a low cost to affect all of us. Factory farms rule U.S. food production, employing abusive practices that increase businesses of the agricultural gains at the expense of the environment, our communities, animal welfare, and even our health (farmsanctuary.org).

When it comes to the matter of factory farming there is only one word that accurately describes the practice: unethical. The practice whether or not one eats factory farmed meats has come to impact every citizen of the planet do to a myriad of factors. The practice is ultimately unsustainable do to its environmental impacts. The livestock that factory farms raise are exploited and stripped of their fundamental rights. The antibiotics that are forced into the livestock to sustain their living conditions is going to change the way we as humans deal with currently curable illnesses.

Factory Farming is misleading in the treatment to animals. Consumers have no idea how the animals are treated. To think about anything other than the meat that is purchased at the stores for our meals. According to Fieser “utilitarianism is that we need to assess the beneficial consequences of actions as everyone is affected”. In the farming business, what is brought to market is not to harm any person intentional, but if not processed according to regulations the business should be held liable if anyone should be sick or die of such practices.

There are many cons to factory farming. As you read they aren’t very humane with there animals. They also do not take safety into concern as much as they should for their workers with all of the problems they had. I say we need to get rid of factory

Of the various types of environmental and animal ethical violations, I believe factory farming to be the most egregious. The industrialized and corporate operated factory farms seem to only be concerned with maximizing their profits while having no care for the welfare of animals they are raising. I’ve seen many documentaries of hidden cameras entering these facilities which reveal the true treatment of the animals. The poor conditions include extreme confinement, such as battery cages which hens are kept in to lay their eggs for their entire life (they never get to roam around or flap their wings). Other inhumane treatment includes acts of chicken debeaking and pig tail docking without anesthesia all while in extreme confinement. Factory Farming