CAFOs is an acronym for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). While it may
seem that the jobs of crop farmers all around the world are completely insignificant, in reality their jobs are extremely crucial in our everyday lives. In the 1970’s, agricultural policies and legislations in the United States encouraged smaller farms to consolidate into massive monocultures, which entailed single crop farming. CAFOs are not exactly farms in nature; rather they are animal factories. Millions of livestock or hundreds of thousands of chicken are reared in and squeezed into confines where movement is limited and the animals are forced to survive in unbearable conditions. Pig’s tails are chopped off and chicken’s beaks are clipped without the administration of any painkillers, all in the name of routine management practices within the CAFOs. In addition, livestock in CAFOs are not developed to eat a diet of soy feed and corn. The animals within the CAFOs weren’t developed to eat chicken or blood manure, which in some instances added to factory farm animals’ feed to promote the protein and quantity of meat in these livestock. This amounts to mistreatment of animals.
I think its important to know where majority of the food in this country comes from, because its not just one person who can make a difference we as a society need to stand up against Cafo's.
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