The definition of inhumane: without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel. Inhumane is the perfect word to describe factory farms because that is exactly what they are towards their animals. They treat their animals terribly and they compact them tightly into small areas just for the owners own benefit. The farms create confinement at a high stocking density because it is the factory farms way of producing the highest output at the lowest cost by relying on modern machinery, biotechnology, and global trade. To have confinement at high stocking density requires the use of antibiotics and pesticides to stop diseases from spreading amongst the crowded living conditions of the animals, which can also cause negative health effects.
These farms usually hold a very large number of animals, usually cows, pigs, or chickens, and their goal is to produce large quantities of meat, eggs, or milk at the lowest cost. At these farms animals are packed into filthy sheds and shoved into tiny cages, metal crates, and many other things. Animals at these "farms" are put through terrible living conditions, aren't treated properly, and are abused daily. Most factory farm animals don't have the sun bathe on them or breath clean and fresh air until the day they are literally dragged out of their cramped living conditions and loaded onto transport trucks that are driving straight to the slaughterhouse.
Animals on factory farms constantly go through and live in terrible conditions:
Before the animals even have a chance to grow old they are sent off to a slaughter house once they are large enough or can't produce milk and eggs anymore from being worn out from the vast amount they are expected to produce. The farmers that work their are very physical with the animals and as they are loading them onto trucks or into crates the animals often break bones and sometimes chickens have had their heads cut off from being closed on doors. The animals are thrown around like they are nothing and are cramped onto transport trucks with no food or water and even drive through terrible weather conditions to get to the slaughter houses. Once they arrive at slaughter houses the animals remain completely concious while have their throats slit or are thrown into boiling water or hair removal tanks. It is completely disgusting how they treat these animals, like their is no value to their lives at all, "wherever you stand on eating animals, says an activist, I think we agree that making their lives hell is too high a price for cheap food."( http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists )
These farms usually hold a very large number of animals, usually cows, pigs, or chickens, and their goal is to produce large quantities of meat, eggs, or milk at the lowest cost. At these farms animals are packed into filthy sheds and shoved into tiny cages, metal crates, and many other things. Animals at these "farms" are put through terrible living conditions, aren't treated properly, and are abused daily. Most factory farm animals don't have the sun bathe on them or breath clean and fresh air until the day they are literally dragged out of their cramped living conditions and loaded onto transport trucks that are driving straight to the slaughterhouse.
Animals on factory farms constantly go through and live in terrible conditions:
- they live in very small spaces and are forced to share cages with other animals and they have no room to move or even lie down
- they live in filthy conditions and the sheds and cages they live in are barely cleaned
- the use of antibiotics and pesticides is high in factory farms to stop the spreading of disease and to help animals grow faster and keep them alive; antibiotics lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threatens human health
- they are genetically manipulated so they grow larger and then the animals can't support their own weight which makes them die from dehydration and starvation since they can't reach food or water
- egg laying hens live their whole life in battery cages laying eggs and are debeaked at a young age due to feather pecking from stress with a hot blade which causes them chronic pain
- 260 million male chickens are killed each year at hatching since they can't lay eggs
Before the animals even have a chance to grow old they are sent off to a slaughter house once they are large enough or can't produce milk and eggs anymore from being worn out from the vast amount they are expected to produce. The farmers that work their are very physical with the animals and as they are loading them onto trucks or into crates the animals often break bones and sometimes chickens have had their heads cut off from being closed on doors. The animals are thrown around like they are nothing and are cramped onto transport trucks with no food or water and even drive through terrible weather conditions to get to the slaughter houses. Once they arrive at slaughter houses the animals remain completely concious while have their throats slit or are thrown into boiling water or hair removal tanks. It is completely disgusting how they treat these animals, like their is no value to their lives at all, "wherever you stand on eating animals, says an activist, I think we agree that making their lives hell is too high a price for cheap food."( http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists )