Organic Food | Animals and Their Lives in Factory Farms

Animals Raised Organically Don’t Live in Factory Farms

Factory farms are confinement camps where large amounts of animals are raised. These animals are raised with little care and are subject to extremely unhealthy environments. Also known as Confined/Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), factory farms were created to maximize profits and minimize output, even if it means partaking in animal cruelty and massive pollution.

Factory farms make sense, when you look at it strictly from a money-making standpoint.

A huge number of animals (dealing with many “products” at once instead of a few”)

living in a very small space (less land needed equals less money spent)

while fed cheap, genetically modified grain (less expensive than letting them roam around eating grass and fattens them up for slaughter at a faster rate)

given antibiotics and growth hormones (focusing on growth so they can reach slaughtering-weight quickly – antibiotics so the animals don’t get sick)

in a dark, gloomy factory (minimal animal care and treatment, less worry from a money-making standpoint).

But is it really worth it? Are the profits really worth torturing animals unnecessarily or contributing heavily to pollution. Are they really worth completely ruining the quality of the meat and contributing to disease in those that consume it? We say NO.