Over 90% of farmed animals worldwide live on factory farms. Around 95% of farmed animals globally are chickens and fish, and they generally endure the most intensive farming methods.
MATTHEW ZAMPA: ‘The idea of factory-farmed meat makes most people feel uncomfortable, so they justify eating animals by claiming their food was produced ethically–not on a factory farm. The majority of them are wrong. According to a new analysis conducted by animal rights think tank Sentience Institute, around 99% of US farmed animals live on factory farms. The analysis uses data from the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture, which was released on April 11, 2019… Moreover, a global analysis also conducted by Sentience Institute suggests over 90% of farmed animals worldwide live on factory farms.
Medium-large factory farms, or CAFOs, in the U.S. generally consists of 1,000 beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2,500 pigs, 55,000 turkeys, 30,000 egg-laying hens, or 125,000 broiler chickens. The analysis notes that CAFO as defined by the EPA and what the public would call a factory farm are not necessarily the same. “For instance, a farm with 37,500 chickens or 3,000 pigs is only considered a CAFO if it meets certain conditions regarding surface water pollution, but farms of these sizes that don’t meet these conditions could still house animals in ways that would be publicly regarded as crowded ‘factory’ conditions”…
The percentage of U.S. farmed animals living on factory farms is: Broiler chickens (99.9%), Turkeys (99.8%), Egg chickens (98.2%), Pigs (98.3%), and Cows (70.4%). Factory farmed animals are heavily concentrated in grower states like North Carolina, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas, where the number of animals often exceeds the number of people in the most heavily farmed counties… Around 95% of farmed animals globally are chickens and fish, and they generally endure the most intensive farming methods. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates 532,510,706 fish were raised on factory farms in the U.S. in 2017′. SOURCE…
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