Leather

   Leather treatment plants are also very bad for the environment. For example, people who live near leather treatment plants can get very bad sicknesses including cancer! Leather can be made not only out of  cows but also pigs, goats, sheep,alligators and even cats and dogs!

Informational Websites

    This post  am going to post many websites that share my opinion about factory farming and give lots of information about animal abuse and factory farms.

petakids.com This website has some great tips on being a vegan/vegetarian. It also has some cool games about factory farms!

farmsanctuary.org This website has a lot of information about factory farms and how to help abused animals!

sustainabletable.org This website has a lot of information about factory farms!

peta.org This website has a lot of information about abused animals. Warning! There are some pretty gruesome videos and images.

factoryfarmmap.org This website has a lot of ways about how to get meat without having to buy it from factory farms!

aspca.org This website has information about all kinds of animal abuse and how you can help stop it!

Cow Abuse in Factory Farms

    This post I am going to do a special on the abuse of cows in factory farms. For a cows whole life in a factory farm it is either viewed as a milk machine, a money making machine or, both. A dairy cow( a cow that produces milk) is pumped full of drugs so that it will make more milk faster. When a dairy cow becomes too old or just stops produces milk it is taken to a slaughter house to be made into meat.
     When a cow has a baby the baby is taken away from it's mother within in a day or two and then they never see each other again. Some babies are born to be made into veal. If that is the case then the baby cows are put into dark cages barely bigger then their bodies. Then, so that their meat is very tender, they aren't fed enough nutrients and become very weak. Then, when they are only about 14 weeks old, they are shoved into a cold truck with over 40 other cows. If the cows don't want to get off the truck because they are scared or just to weak to do so, workers poke them with electric prods that are very painful.

This is a picture of many cows in a confined feeding area.

     Cows also have their tails and horns cut off. They are also branded which causes third degree burns. All o this is done without painkillers.

Chicken Abuse in Factory Farming

    Today I am going to do a special post about chickens and how they are abused in factory farms. Most chickens in factory farms are held in a cage that is called a battery cage. These cages hold four chickens and are only 16 inches long. That's about the length of a pillow! These cages are so small that hens can't spread their wings or any other natural behavior. Because the animals want to get out they rub their body against the wire side of the cage and lose many feathers and get many bruises. When chickens are bored or frustrated they peck with their beak but because the cages are so tiny they end up pecking each other. To prevent the chickens from pecking at each other, they get their beaks cut off without any painkillers! This process is very painful and it involves cutting through bone, cartilage and soft tissue. When chickens stop laying their eggs, they are not given their food because starving chickens lay more eggs for a little while!

       Chickens in factory farms are fed pellets that have drugs, bug killers and sometimes even other ground up chickens or other animals in them!

  

This picture is of chickens in battery cages.
This is my source for this image:

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/chickens-in-cages.jpg

Being a Vegetarian Helps the Environment!

        Being a vegetarian is also very good for the environment. For example, so much greenhouse gas is made and released into the environment from factories that kill animals. In fact, the amount of greenhouse gas released is more than the amount of trucks, cars, planes, ships and trains combined. By becoming a vegetarian you are also helping the environment and helping stop pollution.

Animal Abuse in Factory Farming

I bet you've never really realized how bad animals are treated. For example, animals in factory farms like chickens are forced into tiny little cages, sometimes have their beaks and feet cut off and are sometimes fed their own poop or other ground up chickens! How would you like to eat your best friend? Cows in factory farms also are separated from their mothers at a very early age and are fed very little so that they make good meat. The best ways to help these highly abused animals is to become a vegetarian. This will help the animals in factory farms because if enough people stop eating meat than there will be less people making money off of dead animals because less people will buy meat so meat companies will go out of business so less animals will be dying in factory farms. Also, if you are a vegetarian for a year you save one hundred animals!