Factory farming is the method of raising livestock or farm animals at high stocking density, where your farm is operated like a factory. In general, it as a typical practicing in industrial farming by agribusinesses. In this type of farms, farmers produce products like meat, milk and eggs for human consumption. But here, there have been some issues regarding whether the factory farming is sustainable and ethical.
Mainly this type of farming is exploited for profit regarding animals and the natural world merely as commodities. In this type of farming, there are many bad noticeable things to be seen such as animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction, resource depletion, and animal and risks to health of humans and animals.
Sticking to high stocking density is one part of a systematic effort to produce highest productivity at the lowest cost by depending on economies of scale, modern machinery, biotechnology, and global trade. Keeping more animals together requires antibiotics and pesticides in order to prevent the spread of diseases. Additionally these antibiotics will affect the livestock growth by killing intestinal bacteria.
Animals are kept in small cages or packed sheds or on filthy feedlots, often with so little space that they can’t even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are treated cruelly by those who confining the farm. Drugs are fed to them in order to fatten, grow faster to produce milk, to increase weight etc.
However, there are some differences in maintaining or practicing the factory farming around the world. There are many issues which include the efficiency of food production, animal welfare, whether it is essential for feeding the growing global human population, the environmental impact and the health risks.