Change Is Coming: Factory Farms' Days May Be Numbered

[NickB79]

9. Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but......

Last edited Wed Nov 28, 2012, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Just because an operation operates as cage-free, that in no way changes the fact that it's still a factory farm. Now, instead of cages the chickens will be held in facilities like this: http://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html Tell me that's not a factory farm.

The same thing applies to hog farms. They haven't removed hog pens altogether to allow them to run free in pastures; they've simply removed the farrowing stalls that they put pregnant hogs in to prevent them from laying on and eating their own young.

Just because a facility that produces 200,000 chickens a year or 50,000 hogs a year doesn't use AS constricting of pens in no way makes them less of factory farms. They're still industrialized meat-production centers run like factory floors with little regard for the health of their individual animals. Is this change better for livestock? Hell yes! Do these actions support the premise of the article title? Not even close. We still have a long, long way to go to get rid of these forms of "farming".

On edit: fixed the link, had an unnecessary period at the end.