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Factory Farms need to be a thing of the past
This position holds that factory farming should be a thing of the past. It argues such methods ignore the ethics of rearing livestock for food, and that densely farmed animals are more likely to carry contagious pathogens capable of amplifying future pandemics.
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- Factory farming ignores the ethical connotations of rearing livestock for foodFactory farming is a technique that takes away the rights given to animals by nature. They are ill-treated and reared in cages that are no different from prisons without ever having the freedom to know what the outside world looks and feels like. They are reared for slaughter rendering their lives meaningless.
- Factory bred animals are more likely to be carriers of contagious pathogens that amplify pandemicsFactory farming poses one of the major threats to the world in terms of unknowingly spreading dangerous and deadly diseases through its process of breeding, slaughtering and selling of animals. With more than half the world’s population being meat lovers, this farming is less of a capitalistic saving than a ticking time bomb threatening global devastation.