Is factory farming making you ill? Each year in the UK, around
1,000 million animals are killed for food. This figure doesn’t
include fish, who are killed in such vast numbers that they are
counted in tonnes. Modern intensive farming exists to produce
meat, dairy and products as quickly and cheaply as possible. To
keep production costs down the animals are given the bare
minimum they need to survive. They are fattened in huge, dirty,
cramped sheds and deprived of everything that makes life worth
living. They can hardly stretch their wings or legs and will
never be able to roam. Most farmed animals are slaughtered at
just a few weeks or months old. Apologists for the industry
pretend that, because the animals are purpose-bred on a farm, it
is OK to treat them cruelly and then kill and eat them. Yet
these animals are sentient creatures who feel pain and fear just
like a cat, dog, or, indeed, a human being. Animal Aid campaigns
for better animal welfare in order to lessen the suffering
farmed animals endure. But