Chickens Factory Farms
Based on the confinement and living conditions of farmed fish we estimate that. We estimate that 99 of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at present. How Coronavirus Might Change Farming All Media Content Dw 24 06 2020 Conditions on Factory Farms. Chickens factory farms . It is on chicken factory farms that we have most frequently found viruses that have mutated from a form found only in animals into a form that harms humans what scientists call antigenic shift. As in all factory-farming industries chicken production is designed for maximum efficiency and maximum profit. Common Factory Farm Practices Common conditions in poultry factory farming include extremely limited living space and a lack of access to important behaviors such as pecking scratching and dust-bathing. Factory farmers dont think of chickens as any more sentient than the components that make up an iPhone or a piece of furniture. By species we estimate that 704 of cows 983 of pigs 998 of turkeys