Up until the 1900s, families were the ones who raise animals in large spaces to get all the profits. The families would ensure that these animals would receive the highest quality of life, since the price of the products produced is dependent on the quality of life the animals was living. All of this wasn’t an issue because the farmers (from families) would ensure that the right of the animals is met. During the 1900, agricultural machines were developed and evolved, which encouraged mass production in the late 1900s. Due to the World War II, mass production was highly needed to produce enough amount of meat for the citizens, but only in the 1960 and 1970 was when factory farming was popularized. The businesses in the Great five were in need to produce mass amounts of animals (mostly hens and cows for meat). This is when the rights of animals were slowly, but surely, ignored. With this in mind, the business models that transformed food preparation were applied to animal farming itself, seeking efficiencies of production, savings on space and labor as they gained large amounts of profit. Mass production became a normal form of production, all at the expense of animals. …show more content…
Animals were genetically modified by adding hormones and altering their genetic material to become more attractive to costumers of society. During that phase, selective breeding became an inefficient form of production, and all factory farms became interested in the swiftness, success rate and efficiency of the modification of