Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
no. of animals killed per week in the u.s. industries: 219,804,450
219,804,450
174,524,250
barren feedlots before they are slaughtered. Farming has changed
to the point that the animals, the practices, and the ethos are virtu-
ally unrecognizable.
In addition to selective breeding for productivity traits and
the mass, forced relocation of animals, except for cattle, from
the outdoors to large, often windowless and typically barren,
warehouse-like buildings, one of factory farming's greatest as-
saults is its intensive confinement methods that are particularly
extreme in several sectors.
About 95 percent of the country's nearly 300 million egg-laying
hens are crammed into small wire battery cages. Each cage con-
