Imagine a place where you are trapped inside a huge building with hundreds of thousands of other people with no space to move, no sunlight, and the air you breath smells of feces and dirt. You are force fed food too, that contains additives to make you fat as fast as possible, as well as antibiotics to make sure nobody catches or spreads disease. Once you are of weight you are slaughtered, and your contaminated meat, from the antibiotics, is sent for consumption. Sounds pretty disturbing right? That is how 99% of the meat we consume is produced in factory farms. Factory farming is a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, where poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions. It is accounting for more than 99% of all animals raised and slaughtered in the U.S.. These animals are raised in conditions where they are treated in deplorable, and inhumane …show more content…
Such restrictions would set limits to how many animals a farm could hold while giving the animals the basic rights of clean air, sunlight and space. Christine Chemnitz, head the Department of International Agricultural Policy at the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, states that we should “...prohibit imports of genetically modified feed,... require that farmers produce at least half of their animal feed on their own farms.” (Chemnitz 1) By doing this, farms would drastically shrink because farmers will not be able to produce 50% of the feed for the hundreds of thousands of animals they are farming. With these regulations and restrictions put into place, large pastoral farms would be the next choice for farmers because they could only manage around ten to twenty thousand animals. These pastoral farms would produce meat from animals that are treated more humanely, and would be giving off far less greenhouse gas