A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. Over 99% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms, which focus on profit and efficiency at the expense of the animals’ welfare.
Factory farms pack animals into spaces so tight that most can barely move. Many have no access to the outdoors, spending their lives on open warehouse floors, or housed in cages or pens. Without the room to engage in natural behaviors, confined animals experience severe physical and mental distress.
Human health impact
Intensive farming may cause the evolution and spread of harmful diseases easier. Many transmissible animals’ diseases spread rapidly through the densely spaced populations of animals and overcrowding makes it more likely of genetic recombination. However, small family farms are more likely to develop poultry diseases and more frequent association with people in the mixtures happened in the influenza pandemic of 2009.
Pesticides are used for controlling organisms that considered harmful and they save money to farmers through the prevention of product losses to pests. In the United States around one quarter of the pesticides used are used in houses, yards, parks, golf courses and swimming pools and around 70% …show more content…
laws and the Regulations are called concentrated feeding operations Animal (CAFO), and Canada operations are called concentrated animal feeding (CFOs) or intensive livestock operations (ILOs). CAFO designation in the U.S. resulted from the 1972 Federal Clean Water Act of that country, which was enacted to protect and restore the lakes and rivers to a "fishable swimmable" quality. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Un Certain identified animal feeding operations, along with many other types of industry, such as point source polluters of groundwater. These operations were designated as CAFOs and subject to special regulation of