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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (106160)	6/18/2005 12:27:28 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

One reason I have little respect for your pro-factory farming arguments is that they are just not accurate. I understand that you eat mostly organic meat--I have to wonder if you have actual knowledge of the kind of factory farms I am talking about, where forty or fifty thousand creatures live inside under abysmal conditions (and also pollute the environment and make life foul for the humans who live in the vicinity). I also object to your arrogance when you say essentially that I have no right to an opinion about how farm animals are treated, and that people who are not farmers know nothing, and are not entitled to their opinons about farming. Animal husbandry affects every part of life in America, and everyone should follow these subjects. When you keep saying that farmers would not treat animals this badly because then they would not all survive to make it to market, I really have to disagree, because a fairly high death rate is built into the economic equation. I could find five hundred articles discussing just this one fact from agricultural universities and the hog and chicken industries themselves, but why bother because you won't read them! Here is yet another one: The livestock industry claims that productive animals are by nature healthy animals. The reality is that drugs, hormones, and other chemicals are routinely administered to animals in intensive confinement systems to mask stress and disease and to speed growth. In addition, farm animals have been selectively bred for productivity at the expense of their well-being, and are worn out in a fraction of their natural life spans. Hundreds of thousands of these animals die every day. Physical disorders brought on by exhaustive production demands are common. Dust and toxic gases accumulate in crowded, enclosed systems, causing respiratory diseases and death. Losses are high, yet the industry considers this acceptable because factory-farm profits depend on the optimal use of space and equipment, not on the well-being of individual animals. hsiasia.org