Entry #10: Industrial Farms and Animal Abuse

In the industrial food system animals are raised in CAFO’s which stands for confined animal feeding operations. Chickens about 3000,000 of them are put into a small building with little to no room for movement. These animals spend their whole life not knowing what fresh air is, never seeing the sun. CAFO's are also very unsanitary, an example would be the chicken factories. There are dead chickens scattered on the floor as well as feces, you don’t need to be an expert to realize that these are breeding grounds for disease. If that doesn’t sound bad enough the environments these animals are living in are so harsh that only the desperate like immigrants and prisoners are willing to do the job of catching the chicken so they could be sent to the slaughter house. The animals are being fed food that is bad for their health but the companies don't really care because it makes them grow bigger and faster. The cheap animal feed consists of hormones and antibiotics which cause health issues for the animals.