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In one year in the United States, nine million cows are forced to produce an unnatural amount of milk for the dairy industry. According to a

Factory-farmed dairy cows endure annual cycles of artificial insemination, mechanized milking for 10 out of 12 months (including 7 months of

Approximately 35 million cattle are raised for beef each year in the United States. Most are castrated, de-horned, and branded—painful proce

One million calves are raised for veal annually in the United States—intensively confined in individual stalls so small they can’t turn arou

A chicken's beak is her primary means of touching, feeling, and picking up objects. In the egg factory farming industry, however, most h

Inside a single windowless shed on a commercial egg factory farm, tens if not hundreds of thousands of egg-laying hens are confined in sever

As male chicks cannot lay eggs and aren’t the same breeds as those chickens raised for meat, they are of no value to the egg or broiler indu

Although intelligent, highly social animals, pigs are treated as meat-production units on industrialized factory farms and confined in barre

Right before giving birth, the pregnant sows are moved from gestation crates into equally restrictive farrowing crates, stalls designed to s

Factory-farmed pigs raised for meat undergo painful mutilations—including castration and tail docking—without anesthesia. For six months, th