Industrial farming or factory farming is the inhumane process in which when poultry, pigs, and cattle are confined indoors in strict, violent conditions. They do not thrive in the way of a normal farmed animal, free, instead they spend most of their lives in cages, metal crates, hangs, and factory machinery. Traditionally and the humanitarian way of farming animals is when farmers think of animals as an asset, and they are killed without a sense of strain and painful reactions. Although, in the United States of America, 99.9% of all chickens, 95% of all pigs and 78% of all cattle are factory farmed. In terms of animal welfare, factory farmed animals are given antibiotics, even if they are not sick. Some of these antibiotics are given to unnaturally promote growth in a chicken. Sometimes, they are used to prevent disease, even if there is no disease in the animal at the time. Antibiotics used in factory farming is used for growth of the animal, making the animal bigger than its natural size and bigger for the average American to consume. Since 1950, chickens are growing twice their natural size in only 47 days. Rather than living freely, these animals nearly move an inch their entire life, as they are locked up in cages; an inhumane way of animal slaughter. Factory farmed animals also produce a handful of manure, that later piles up gradually. This manure makes the farm unsanitary, sometimes even contaminating spinach and water. Manure also release hazardous gases into the atmosphere, damaging it severely.
Factory farming is a not only hazardous to the animals that are being slaughtered and the environment, but also to the humans that later consume it. Factory farmed meats have caused several diseases, which have soon caused multiple deaths in the United States of America. Due to mass farming and an irregular dose of antibiotics, diseases can now spread like wildfire in factory farmed animals. Throughout the years, there have been a numerous amount of outbreaks in the United States itself.
