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FactoryFarming.co.uk is designed to show you the facts behind factory farming and in particular factory farming for chickens, pigs, sheep and cows.
Factory farming is the biggest single source of cruelty to animals in the world, every year 61 billion farm animals are reared for meat, milk & eggs. The majority of these are kept in cruel and inhumane conditions living short, unnatural lives blighted by ill health, pain, stress and misery.
The large concentration of animals, animal waste and potential for dead animals in such a small space poses many ethical questions, it is recognised that some factory farming techniques used to sustain intensive agriculture can be very cruel to animals.
Factory farms, also known as CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) or IFAP (Industrial Farm Animal Production) facilities,1 can house up...
ICARE is a pro-agriculture organization that promotes safe, healthy, affordable food, local control, and the economic viability and sustainability of...
The independent Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) was formed to conduct a comprehensive, fact-based and balanced examination...
The living condition in a battery cage does not destroy the "memory ancestries" chickens: One can often see the hens confined...
Foraging, pecking, dust-bathing in the sun, her eggs and raise chicks: children books and continue to evoke the daily life...