Source: FOOD AND WATER WATCH, 5/14/18


The way we grow our food and raise livestock has changed drastically over the past several decades. Small-scale, family owned farms are increasingly giving way to industrial factory farms.

What is a factory farm?
These aren’t the pastoral farms in the your childhood picture books. Nearly all modern farms raising animals for food are massive operations that house thousands of animals in confined, crowded spaces. The photos you may have seen of stacks of caged chickens, or layers of dead pigs? Those horrifying images reflect the modern factory farm as it exists today.

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