This is ‘life’ on the factory farm.

A wretched,
tormented existence leading only to the
brutality and panic of death. Living, breathing
creatures, with feelings much like our own,
treated with utter indifference and neglect.
And anyone who eats their dead bodies is
supporting this cruelty.

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hens
Factory farming is based on profit. Farmed animals are selectively bred and intensively kept in

order to increase the yield of meat and, in turn, swell the farmer’s bank account. Such

it’s a GRAVE situation

Photo: Animal Watch

procedures can mean only immense pain and stress for the animals as their lives are relegated Battery hens are egg-layers.
They are imprisoned in
to the importance of buttons in a clothing factory. cages, row upon row. Five hens are squeezed into a space little
bigger than a microwave.

Living her short life behind bars means that she is unable
to spread her wings or turn around. To deter frustrated
pecking, the end of her sensitive beak is sliced off. The
shock can kill. Forced to stand all day on wire, her feet

broiler
may become thick with ulcers. Excessive egg production
drains her body of

pigs chickens
nutrients and her bones
snap like dry twigs.

As a by-product of the
Over 90 per cent of British Broilers are reared for meat. egg industry, 40 million

Photo: Bob Holt/FAWN

sausages, bacon and ham For speed, tiny motherless male chicks - unable to lay
start life in a windowless chicks are fed growth and too lean to be eaten -

Photo: Animal Watch

shed, thick with the stench of promoting drugs. Within six are killed every year. One
urine and faeces. weeks, the baby balloons to day old yellow, fluffy chicks cheeping as they ride the
the size of an adult. A huge, conveyor belt to death, by being minced alive or gassed.
Inside, on cold, bare concrete, the sow performs an endless, sad bird with the blue eyes and high pitched cheep of a chick.
unnatural cycle of birth. Prior to and during labour, she is

cows
imprisoned in a farrowing crate. Any movement is severely This immense weight places an
restricted by bars and all attempts to nurse her young are unbearable strain on his body. In fact,
futile. Aching all over and up to four fifths of chicks have
frantic with despair, she skeletal defects. Many suffer heart
is forced to watch, attacks; or their legs buckle and A dairy cow produces milk only when she gives birth to a
helpless, as her piglets are break beneath them. Too crippled to calf. To ensure all the milk is kept for humans, the baby
stolen away at three walk, they slowly die from is torn from her side after 24 to 48 hours. A male calf,
weeks. She is then dehydration and starvation. too scrawny for the meat industry, is often shot.
immediately and forcibly
made pregnant again. In the slaughterhouse, hanging A cow’s body is designed to provide two litres of milk for her calf but intensive farming
upside down from a conveyor belt, can force her to produce over ten. The huge, unnatural weight of her udders is an
And her piglets? Neglected terrified chicks often raise their intolerable burden and can eventually cause lameness.
and diseased, their short heads above the electrically charged Swollen udders are commonly hot with mastitis; they
lives are spent in squalid, water bath used for stunning. These can be agonising and leak pus.
overcrowded fattening chicks are knifed fully conscious.
units. At five months, each Unstunned and bleeding, some enter Drained by physical and mental stress, she is
is shackled up by one leg the scalding tank - designed to slaughtered prematurely. Each year some 150,000 cows

Photo: FAWN
and their throat slit. loosen feathers - alive. are still pregnant when killed.