Answer:
Many factory farms keep consumers in the dark about their processes and how animals are raised because many of their practices are now considered inhumane. This is because more and more light is being shed against such activity by animal welfare organizations.
Any farm may be demarketed if they are branded to be in violation of animal treatment best practices.
Explanation:
Some of the practices which go on at these farms also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are now being brought to the fore by Animal Welfare Institutes.
These inhuman or unfair practices include but are not limited to:
- Painful or highly stressful actions against the animals without the use of anesthesia or pain relief. Such pain actions are: tail docking, dehorning, castration, debeaking, etc
- There is also the practice of inconvenient confinement of pigs, egg-laying hens so much so that they are unable to spread their wings as in the case of the hens or run around as in the case of the pigs.
- cows have been shown to suffer lameness and udder infection due to lifelong confinement and in some cases injection with growth hormones.
Crowded animal farms lead to the proliferation of diseases such as Bird Flu (for birds), SwineFlu (for pigs), and other forms of viruses which can prove dangerous to human health when these products are consumed.
Another reason farms would hide their unpopular operations from consumers is that following laid down best practice translates to additional costs and lower profits.
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