Group Project on negative sides of factory farming

1. By: Bobby Biggerstaff & Stevie Wills

2.  Overcrowding in houses
 Dark dim housing with no natural sunlight
 Fed unnatural diet
 Taken from mothers right after birth
 Ears, tails or beaks clipped/trimmed without anesthesia

4.  Waste of resources
 Brings down property costs
 Use of a variety of pesticides without proper runoff
 Deforestation of the Amazon

6.  Loss of revenue
 U.S. meat banned in other countries
 Company cares more about making money than what it does to the environment
around them

8.  Manipulation of natural growth cycles
 Bred to grow at a faster rate
 More respiratory and leg problems

10.  Different feed formulas for different age for the animals
 Each formula filled with ingredients to push weight on the birds
 Antibiotics and other additives
 Hot feed in a short time frame to be fed to animals

12.  Animals grown without hormones
 100% antibiotic free
 Organic
 American Humane Certified

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