In this blog I will discuss about the in-just with the animals and also its effects on consumers, in reference to 'The CAFO Reader' edited by Daniel Imhoff and 'farm to fridge' a video by the group mercy for animals.
The current and prospering method of raw meat production in The United States is CAFO system (concentrated animal feeding operations). In other words 'Haunted Houses' where animals are confined to death after all the torture and harassment. These Industrial Animal Factories have taken place of barns and fields which was once run by a one farming family. These massive industries are owned by large corporations and are known as factory farms. In these factory farms animals are treated as mere production units with no feelings. They are kicked, stabbed, abused, tortured, caged and isolated from the real world; their natural surroundings. The people at these factory farms treat animals as their slaves (property) by keeping them in overcrowded tiny cages, removing their body parts which are not valuable in monetary terms, nothing matters to them except money. I wonder if they have any soul or emotions, to me they are some kind of psychopaths who can't see the pain and sufferings of other living-being. The whole-sole agenda of these factory farms is to produce 'cheap meat in large quantity’ no matter what it takes. Ninety-nine percent of the eggs, meat, and dairy products that the average american consumes come from CAFOs. This shows how much the society is dependent on such a wane and incompetent system.
This factory system is not only a pity for those poor animals who are slaughtered or being slaughtered continuously every second but it is a issue of concern for its consumers too. Consumers are not fully aware of the health issues raised by the increase in the factory farming, the meat we eat is not only flesh of animals but part of it filled with is dangerous chemicals such as: arsenic, ammonia, mercury, pesticides, synthetic hormones, antibiotics that may cause drug-resistant infections and many more health problems. Over consumption of meat is the increasing cause of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, blockage of veins due to animal fat (cholesterol problem) and other endless problems. All these things proves the inefficiency of factory farming. Factory farming might be a convenient method to produce meat in our society but is not the appropriate method.
Industrial Animal Factories are not Farms! Animals are slaughtered at both places; the farms and the factories but the question is ; What they do to the animals in CAFO's beside just killing them?
