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95%-99% of farm animals in the US are born, raised, and die in factory farms [1], i.e. they are born into constant unimaginable suffering and die a gruesome dea
by puttycat 7y ago
95%-99% of farm animals in the US are born, raised, and die in factory farms [1], i.e. they are born into constant unimaginable suffering and die a gruesome death. These stats are about the same throughout the Western world.
Cows and other farm animals who are raised in relatively "humane" captivity, like the one you're describing, are an anecdote.
[1] https://sentientmedia.org/u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory-farms/ https://sentientmedia.org/u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory...
- mattlutze 7y agoThe analysis behind that link suggests 70% of US cows live on factory farms. They use a cut-off of >150 cows on a dairy farm or >225 cows on a beef/veal farm = factory farm. The supporting sheets indicate that they take a simple 75% of the Small farm (300 head or 200 head for beef or dairy) maximum size as their cutoff for a factory farm. It doesn't explain why they use such an unsophisticated metric to define many small farms, and all medium- and large-sized farms, as factory farms. That lack of sophistication makes me skeptical of these numbers.
- RHSeeger 7y agoWhile it's entirely possible that's a reasonable article, my first impression is to ignore it - "amimal rights think tank Sentience Institute" - popup that asks "do you love animals" - image a a crying cow It reeks of an extremely biased article to me. I mean, that doesn't mean it is such, but my "links from shitty news on facebook" meter certainly labels it that way.