[frgoff]

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Agree. Conditions on factory farms are truly appalling.
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Suffering from a little projection are we? How do you know it's apalling to a cow or a tureky? You would tell by a loss of weight and deteriorating health, both of which would reduce the quality of the product and so are avoided.

The purpose of a factory farm is to provide quality meat at a cheap price. Only healthy animals give quality meat. Animals are only healthy when treated properly.

Engage your brain.

[I Blame the Parents]

Starving a veal calf of iron to keep it deliberately anemic is inhumane. Starving chickens for two weeks so that their feathers fall off to get one more batch of eggs out of them is inhumane. Force feeding ducks to abnormally enlarge their livers is inhumane. Do a Google on "forced-molting" as one example.

This is not being "treated properly" by the standards of a good society. Unhealthy cramped conditions for chickens have already been pinpointed for the spread of "bird flu" in Asia.

Engage your compassion. If you don't have any for the lesser creatures (uh, products) of this planet, then you still have a long way to go. I wish you luck in your journey.