Factory Farm Effects

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For the sake of profit, 99% of farm animals are exploited every year in a method called factory farming, (aspca.org Factory Farms). The Oxford Dictionary defined factory farming as “a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions” (oxforddictionaries.com/ Factory Farming). This is the polite way of saying that animals are commercially abused and neglected. This occurs through forcing animals to live in harsh conditions, causing not only negative effects to the animals located on them, but also humans and the environment.

Living in a factory farm is a dreadful experience that the animals living on them must tolerate for their entire lives. Thousands
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The small amounts of living spaces and exercise often forces animal feet into unnatural positions, resulting in painful foot deformities. As a result, feet can be permanently bent or missing a toe or two. Because of the growth hormones given to the animals, the animal's torso grows unnaturally large in a small amount of time. The rest of the animal can not keep up with the large torso and is unable to support the animal. This can lead to starvation or dehydration because the poor animals are unable to walk to the where their food is held (farmsanctuary.org, Factory Farming). The small living spaces animals survive in are breeding grounds for salmonella and other diseases and viruses. Animals are fed huge, often unnecessary, doses of antibiotics to battle these. (aspca.org, Factory Farms). The uncomfortable conditions of factory farms have many painful effects on the animal body. The diseases and antibiotics the animals receive in factory farms often end up in human food.

Disease meat or eggs can end up in a person's mouth. In 2010, the crowded, unsanitary conditions at two Iowa egg companies caused a recall of more than half a billion potentially Salmonella-tainted eggs, (foodandwaterwatch.org, Factory Farming and Food Safety). The antibiotics in animals often reach the human who consumes its product as well. The overuse of antibiotics results in bacteria called superbugs, or bacteria that have adapted and are able to battle antibiotics, (aspca.org, Factory Farms). These dreadful places create a lot of waste, which often times ends up in