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Industrial animal production, the practice of confining thousands of cows, hogs, chickens, or other animals in tightly packed facilities has become the dominant method of meat production in the United States

Not only is factory farming unacceptable because of the mistreatment to animals but also workers - who else but the unskilled could possibly work in a slaughterhouse?  Emotional and physical stress to all - animals, workers, consumers...... the only winner is big ag

The U.S. EPA has proposed a "better approach" to making factory farms report their levels of air-polluting emissions -- don't make 'em report them at all!

Chef James Oliver, 32, hosted a filmed dinner in which food producers were served chicken - then shown clips of the birds being slaughtered and suffering during intensive farming