Ethical Issues In Factory Farming

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Factory farming is the process of animal production that provides cheap food for restaurants, fast food industries and grocery stores. The goal for a factory farm is to produce the most animals in the least amount of time, with the least resources and space. Animals in the factory farms are treated as production units and treated as if they have no basic needs. More animals are killed in factory farms than hunting, shelters and research combined (Brown, 2011). "Nine billion animals are raised and slaughtered for human consumption each year in the U.S. alone"(USDA, 2015). "Just as the chickens were about to go to slaughter, employees at a Foster Farms poultry company in Fresno County, Calif., began hitting them and pulling out their