CAFOs are where cattle are sent after they leave the open range ranch. It is the last stop before the slaughter house. This is not just a few places in the USA this is how most of our beef is processed in the states. When you see the term "corn fed" it usually means those cows spent their last 30 or so days in a CAFO.
Chicken CAFOs are even more extreme. They are long windowless barns with barely any light and there can be tens of thousands of chickens in a single structure. Some of the local Chicken CAFOS near me have more than 40k chickens inside a single structure all crammed together. They spend their entire lives in those barns until they are shipped away for slaughter The smell from these barns can make you physically ill.
Animals were not meant to be crowded together in such high concentrations.
Thank GOD, that is not how we do it in my neck of the woods. I get my eggs from a local farmer and his chickens have the run of most of his farm.
Yep...and just like I said earlier in the thread (about pork); it has changed the taste of the product...totally disgusting. These animals spend their entire lives actually being "marinated" with the overwhelming stench of waste...yuck...and inhumane.
Of course, now that the entire economy has been pretty much destroyed we have no choice but to accept cheap and crappy food. Hurray for progress!