Abuses usually associated with factory farming include massive doses of hormones and antibiotics, battery cages, debeaking, tail docking, gestation crates, and veal crates.
The animals spend their entire lives in these miserable conditions until they are slaughtered. Their suffering is unimaginable.
Factory farms do not care about individual animals. Some animals will die as a result of debeaking, tail docking, disease and intensive confinement, but the operation is still profitable overall.
Male dairy calves are chained and confined in veal crates that do not allow them to move or turn around. They are taken from their mothers at birth because they are not useful for milk production. Instead of their mothers’ milk, they are fed a synthetic formula designed to keep their flesh pale and anemic, as desired by many consumers.
Egg laying hens are crowded into battery cages to maximize profits, and live their entire lives never being able to spread their wings. Battery cages typically measure 18 by 20 inches, with five to eleven birds crowded into a single cage. A single bird has a wingspan of 32 inches. Cages are stacked in rows on top of each other, so that hundreds of thousands of birds can be housed in a single building.
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