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Learn about Factory Farming
How Factory Farming Hurts People Factory farming hurts people's health. Although we are taught that eating meat and dairy products is natural and healthy, it is actually healthier not to. Meat and dairy consumption has been linked to obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, and cancer. Studies have shown that 80-90 percent of cancers, heart disease, and other illness could be prevented (at least until old age) by eating a plant-based (vegetarian or vegan) diet. People who consume animal foods must worry not only about diseases caused from high fat, high protein diets, but also about the dangerous toxins and bacteria in their meat. Many Americans die every year from eating contaminated meat. The meat, poultry, dairy, and egg industries employ technological short cuts — such as drugs, hormones, and other chemicals — to make more and more money every year. Under these conditions, deadly bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics are starting to appear. These dangerous bacteria developed because of the overuse of antibiotics on Factory Farms and have the potential to cause suffering and death for many people. As farms have become larger and more focused on profits, things have not only become worse for farm animals, but for farm workers too. Because farm and slaughterhouse operators don't want to have to pay their employees very much, they hire mainly poor, unskilled immigrants, who are forced to work long hours in dangerous jobs. Because they are immigrants, these workers usually cannot complain about poor working conditions. When they do complain, they are often kicked out of the country.
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