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According to the ASPCA, over 95% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms[0]: [0] https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare https
by kawsper 8y ago
According to the ASPCA, over 95% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms[0]:
[0] https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare https://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare
According to Dr. Hershaft, a holocaust survivor which has dedicated his life to researching animal rights, it is estimated that less than 1% of the meat in the US are from smallscale family farms, he and his team did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80yearold_holocaust_survivor_who/ckqbak1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80year...
- maemilius 8y agoAccording to the ASPCA: > A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. That's an _extremely_ broad definition that says nothing about the condition of the animals.
- deadmetheny 8y agoOn top of this, that percentage is most likely due the sheer volume of chickens in the world. From what I remember there's something like 750 million head of cattle in the world, and like 18 billion chickens. This doesn't make up for the awful treatment of poultry, but it doesn't really extrapolate to animals like cattle and sheep.