Since the 1920's factory farming has been a large component of American industry. Among the various animals that are subjected to this treatment are layer chickens. Here are some of cruelty that these animals are subjected too:

5 to 8 birds in a 14 square inch cage

Beaks are seared off at birth

Newborn males are separated out and suffocated with trash bags

In summary, factory farming is both cruel and unnatural. It is villanous and should be banned. (http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html)

kills mad chickens bro. they sleep in bad places. and some can only move a little bit. therefore it is bad to the animals

True, prices might go up. But factory farming has actually led to overproduction. If farming reverted to humane practices it would not only benefit animals, it would give more agricultural workers jobs. Besides... If farmers were able to survive in the past than they can certainly survive by using those same methods today.

The meat, poultry, and dairy industries in factory farming are extremely harmful to human beings. They use hormones and other chemicals to maximize production and profit which can be a potential cause to unknown sufferings and deaths. Millions of Americans are infected each year and die from contaminated food products that the factory farming causes.

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/factoryfarming/health/

In addition to inhumane condition, "almost 50% of all antibiotics are administered to farm animals." (http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html) These antibiotics not only remain in the animal flesh and then enter human blood, they also create new strains of viruses that are resistant to current antibiotics. We are giving viruses new immunity and someday this will come back to haunt us.

Factory farming is the form of raising animals for food in extreme confinement, in order to maximize profits. In addition to intense confinement, abuses usually associated with factory farming include massive doses of hormones and antibiotics, battery cages, gestation crates, and veal crates. All the things injected into the animal for growth are extremely bad for them and also the consumers. The use of growth promoting antibiotics, and anabolic hormones in meat production makes contamination of the meat supply is commonplace. Given the levels of overcrowding, unhygienic rearing, and transportation conditions it is not difficult to see how easy it is to get a deadly bacteria or virus through the animals. Intensive animal production may yield high profits but only by imposing some pretty vicious costs.

The hormons and other enhancers people put in animals harm people and is not natural. The animals are treated like mindless unfeeling things.

Factory Farming is a dangerous industry that has been in place since the 1920's. And has become a prominent American Industry. But must be stopped. Most animals at factory farms never see the light of day in dark overcrowded facilities. And are often injected with hormones that make them grow faster. Such overcrowded facilities are perfect settings for disease and bacteria such as salmonella to grow which is then consumed by the public. Sadly each year we see more and more cases of salmonella poisonings, this factory farming industry must come to an end now.

factory farming harms farm animals such as cows who are kept in a small concrete stall with metal floors where they are kept pregnant and lactating. On average a cow lives 20-25 yeas, in the factory farms they live around 4 years if they are lucky. Then when the cow's production of milk lowers, it slawtered.

i agree with you sean feeley. that is a logic statement and i agree

I agree and the reason that farms dont make any money nowadays is because factory farms are taking over. If we got rid of factory farms we could revert back to old techniques and humans and animals would benefit in many ways.

How would you like to be treated unfairly in a unsafe enviroment and spend your whole life of about 4 years suffering?

The more I learn about this stuff the more I understand the reason why vegetarians don’t eat meat. Giant meat industries slaughter about 32,000 pigs a day. Tyson is the largest meat producing company in the world. The work environment is unsafe for the workers and animals. The animals are born into suffering and die suffering. The small slaughterhouses are much safer, cleaner, and a much better environment for the animals.

a bounch of people recognized that raising animals for food damages the environment more than just about anything else that we do. Raising animals for food is wreaking havoc on the Earth. More than 260 million acres of land have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals. Livestock grazing is the number one reason that plant species in the United States become threatened and go extinct and leads to soil erosion and eventual desertification.

Here's another example of cruelty within the industry of factory farming: "In one notorious case of extraordinary cruelty at Ward Egg Ranch in February 2003 in San Diego County, California, more than 15,000 spent laying hens were tossed alive into a wood-chipping machine to dispose of them." (http://www.farmsanctuary.org/issues/factoryfarming/eggs/)

I agree a more humane manner of farming would produce more agricultural jobs. People would also feel better about the work they are doing. And certainly if we used the same farming techniques we did in the past we would be able to survive, but yet newer technology will be beneficial to the individual farmer.

Agricultural waste from factory farms is allowed to run off into the waterways. It has gotten so bad that "dead zones" have formed that are uninhabitable to aquatic life. The EPA asst. administrator says agriculture is the arguably the single largest source of water pollution in the USA.

Family farms have been the core of agriculture for thousands of years. They don’t produce more than the carrying capacity of the land and they understand the condition of the soil and its ability to sustain various crops from season to season. They commonly produce and save their own seeds, a practice that has helped small farms maintain the integrity of crops, and allow hardier, diverse strains of plants to prosper. Contrasting this, industrial farms use a few strains of high yielding crops, an approach that threatens genetic diversity and often leads to chemical dependency.

hormons help reduce the waiting time and the amount of feed eaten by an animal before slaughter in meat industries. In dairy cows, hormones can be used to increase milk production. Thus, hormones can increase the profitability of the meat and dairy industries. Synthetic steroid hormones used to fatten cows, have been found to affect cancer risk

I disagree. The law of supply and demand means that the more product is put on the market, the less the product is worth. Factory Farming gluts the market, lowering prices. In addition, America already produces enough food to supports its needs; it simply isn't distributed equallyl.

Factory farms pollute, put people out of jobs, and harm many animals while producing low-quality food. They also industrialize many areas and ship their products using non-fuel efficient vehicles.

Again, I disagree. Enough food is produced globally to support the entire population; it simply is not distributed equally. "The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day according to the most recent estimate that we could find.(FAO 2002, p.9). The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food." (http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm#Does_the_world_produce_enough_food_to_feed_everyone)

Imagine if your pet had to grow up in such a harsh environment. Or not being able to see your kids ever. It’s a sad life these animals have to live and no living thing should have to go through that.

Antibiotic resistence is becoming a serious issue. Humans in the US receive about 3 million pounds of antibiotics a year, which is nothing compared to the 25 million pounds animals are given. And while in theory they have to wait for the drugs to leave the system this is not enforced nearly often enough (in the same way that many chickens in the store still have arsenic in them.)

Currently, federal regulations allow these hormones to be used on growing cattle and sheep, but not on poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks) or hogs (pigs). The above hormones are not as useful in increasing weight gain of poultry or hogs.

hell no i love eating. im not complaining im agreeing with sean feeley because he fights giraffes

I eat meat, but ever since I found out what the process was to make Tyson chicken I stopped eating it and i hope others boycott it too.

Factory farms emit harmful gases and particles such as methane and hydrogen sulfide, which can contribute to global warming and harm the health of those living or working nearby. Air pollution is caused by he overuse of machinery and water pollution is caused by pesticides and fertilizers. http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/environment/

BUt you cant totally disagree with it and then eat the meat>

They aren't helping anybody when they're infested with chemicals and hormones. I would rather die a natural death and not be tortured in the process.

Factory Farming is also a huge source of pollution. For example: According to (http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/ffarms.asp)

"Huge open-air waste lagoons, often as big as several football fields, are prone to leaks and spills. In 1995 an eight-acre hog-waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, spilling 25 million gallons of manure into the New River. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing."

Finally, in addition to inhumane conditions and pollution, factory farms give rise to monopolistic trusts. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, the ten largest companies produce more than 90 percent of the nation's poultry. Clearly, this is monopolistic economic rule

that makes almost no sense....none of the factory farms sends dieing chicken to poverty states just so they can eat. Basically, the ratio of all the chickens dieing in factory farms to the chickens dieing on a regular farm are much greater.

Its international pancake day...like if your going to IHOP

It's not like they have a choice in the matter! If they had a choice it would be different.