Sunday, March 23, 2014

Factory farming vs. Conventional Farming

Organizations like PETA love bashing the agricultural industry. Bringing light to things like farrowing crates and clipping chicken beaks and using GMO foods.
 For the first issue. Prop two is a disaster. Pigs are put in farrowing crates so that they don't roll over and suffocate their babies, which happens more often than you'd think. 
Chickens are cannibals. They eat each other. The pecking order saying is a real thing. In the wild when one starts bleeding all the others would eat it until all the blood is gone. Which is why many farm clip their beaks. Which is also why free ranging chickens is hard. 
As for GMO foods, we are urbanizing at an alarmingly fast rate. Without  these genetically modified organisms we would not be able to sustain life. Our population is far too big for us to have the luxury of organic foods.

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