Each day a multitudinous of people unknowingly eat meat that is raised abhorrently on a factory farm. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.), a factory farm is a large industrial operation in which over 99% of all livestock are raised. Factory farms are meant to maximize the amount of meat for the space, so the different animals are often crammed into extremely tight quarters. Livestock raised this way often lay in their own sewage and rotting carcasses of others animals that could no longer survive these conditions. Water surveys taken from around factory farming operations consistently show high levels of bacteria in surrounding groundwater. The animals raised in this manner, are often abused …show more content…
If factory farming is not stopped, not only will countless livestock be abused, but contaminated ground water and antibiotic resistant bacteria could cause a deadly outcome.

Factory Farmed Cows Factory farmed cows are raised in two different manners, the first are dairy cows, and the second are cows raised for their meat. Each year, dairy cows produce more than 20 billion gallons of milk that goes far beyond just the carton. A large portion of the milk produced is turned into various cheeses, yogurt, and ice cream It is easy to see from the various advertisements, the milk industry touts milk as the perfect drink. The infamous “Got Milk?” campaign paid for by milk companies claims milk gives you the energy for your day and even turns you into a professional athlete (Got milk? Drink to a brighter future, 2014). An even more egregious misrepresentation of the facts, on their website( gotmilk.com), shows a happy cow standing in the grass. What they fail to mention, is that milk is often full of hormones and possibly antibiotics. Hormones are present in milk even if the cows are not treated with artificial hormones. The truth about how cows are raised and what is really in …show more content…
While the consumption of pork has remained steady over the past 30 years, there has been a sharp decline of 87.81% of pig farms (Perdue University, 2008 & Lavendel, 2000). Some may marvel at the progress that has been made in meat production. It took so many more farms to produce the same amount meat, just 30 years ago, but they fail to take into account what is lost by the gain in progress. The increase in production and reduction of space comes at the cost of the health and well being of the pigs, not to mention the people who eat them. Pigs are forced into smaller and smaller spaces, to maximize capacity. Since the pigs are kept so close together, they often wind up fighting with and hurting each other. They are forced to stand on slatted floors, above massive tanks on their own feces. The pigs often injured by getting their legs stuck in the slats. A recent incident at a factory farm caused 2500 pigs to be dropped down into a manure tank below them. Only 500 out of the 2500 pigs survived this horrific incident (Bird, 2014). Most pigs that are injured fail to get any medical attention, and wind up lying dead on factory floors, for days (PETA, 2015). Instead of workers helping injured pigs, they abuse them. Investigations have found multiple incidents where farm workers beat