The concept of factory farming is intrinsically inhumane, because it denies animals their most basic rights as living beings. Millions of farm animals are now reared behind the closed doors of the factory farm. They are crated, crammed and confined. Factory farming treats farm animals solely as production machines, and keeps these animals in systems which subject them to environmental, social and physiological deprivation. Agricultural businessman favour factory farming because the compact operation greatly reduces two of their major expenses - Land and Labour.

1. By concentrating animals in to small areas, less land is needed.
2. By automating many of the daily chores, labour is kept to minimum.
3. The close confinement of the animals allows the operator to monitor constantly their various feeding, growing and breeding functions. The result is Animals cease to be treated as individual living creatures - and traditional animal husbandry ethics are ignored.

The normal factory-farm conditions are horrific:

1. Cramped incarceration/confinement.
2. Mutilation of parts of the bodies.
3. Deprivation of Sun and Light.
4. Deprivation of normal physical activities and exercise.
5. Administration of strong drugs to stimulate growth and to counter diseases.
6. Force-feeding.
7. Deliberate malnutrition and weaning.
8. Forced insemination.
9. Frustration of natural instincts and the denial of freedom to express their normal behaviour patterns.
10. Extreme stress (Certainly, after a long life of misery, a traumatic journey to the slaughter house and the terror of the anticipated death, factory-farm animals are nothing if not stressed.)

Today's veal calves are taken away from their mothers as soon as they are born and forced to live their entire lives in unspeakably miserable conditions.

This veal calf will spend its whole life constrained to this pen so that its a n e m i c muscles will r e m a i n tender when butchered. In order to lie down, such calves must hunch up to fit their legs into the 22- inch stall.

Humane treatment is seen as Unnecessary, Irrelevant, and in conflict with the maximization of profit.

The factory-farming system essentially isolates the daily lives and consciousness of consumers from the 'birth-to-table' processing of animals. Packaging and display techniques of supermarket meat 'hide' the cruelties of factory-farm life behind brightly coloured packaging.

Behaviour Patterns (in the factory farming) :

In the crates and cages, extreme stress from under-stimulation is inevitable. Some of the resulting stereotypical 'copying' behaviour are repetitive body movements, cage mouthing, bar gnawing, and sucking others appendages and navels. The major remedy for boredom both with the pens and the cages is to pick • Use your imagination for decorations on clothes and hats which are
from the time they give on each other, bite each other, etc. The industry's cynical solution is to chop off the offending parts. Abusive methods of control cannot eliminate behavioural problems when ANIMALS ARE DENIED THEIR EVERY NATURAL INSTINCT AND NEED.

MILKED FOR ALL SHES WORTH

Her udder muscles have given out.

It’s a common occurence in today’s overworked dairy cows.

The cow provides the milk, the unweaned calf, often just a few days old, provides the rennet. Rennet is processed deep in the fourth stomach of the calf. Just a dash of rennet in the curdling of milk makes fine cheese. It's a matter of taste, for the calf, ofcourse, it's a matter of life.

A production line carries live chickens on their way to slaughter in the killing room of a processing plant.

When we realise what friendly and intelligent animals pigs are by nature, it's terribly sad to see the desolate lives they are forced to live today treated like cars in a parking lot.....

During their pregnancies, sows are confined in stalls that do not permit them to turn around or walk to and fro. After their confinement, sows are often immobilized from the time they give birth until the piglets are weaned.