As I stated in my last post, there are many other animals in factory farms. Cows, hogs, and many more. I found more information about the different kinds of cows and some about hogs, and they're life within a factory farm.
Cows give us humans so much already. For instance, milk, cheese, and yogurt. We do a horrible job at returning the favor. Cows are given growth hormones and extremely rich diets. Dairy cows give milk when pregnant. Because it takes a lot of energy, they are given more high-energy feed. The feed could have metabolic consequences including several illnesses that could kill the cow. Downed cattle, also called sick cattle, were abandoned for hours at faculties in Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Texas. They were in horrible health. Downed cattle have higher risks of contamination by E. Coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease because they are in fences and their immune systems are weak. Cows when big enough to be slaughtered are rounded up and put into feeding lots, large pens that hold hundreds of cows to be slaughtered. At the slaughterhouse, cows are hit unconscious by a stunning blow to the head. Then, hung by the back legs and throats are cut (Morse 1).
Hogs are another animal commonly mistreated in factory farms. Hogs are normally smart, social creatures, but their pins are so overcrowded that they usually fight each other sometimes resulting in death. Because of the agressiveness, hogs have their tail docked to prevent it from being bitten off. In addition, hogs are removed from their mother as soon as one week after birth. They are then put in to pens with hundreds of other hogs. The mothers of the baby hogs give birth in a crate that is usually two feet wide by seven feet long.
As you may already know, there are many more problems going along with animal abuse at factory farms. These are just a few examples. I am sure that not everything has been found, but these are definitely reasons enough to make it stop.
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