Farms are lagers that prevent animals to satisfy their primary and fundamentals biological needs. Animals are kept in such small stalls that they cannot even turn around. This is done on purpose because moving would mean spending energies instead of putting on weight, and also it would increase the room needed for each animal making the farm bigger and more expensive. Their suffering is irrelevant because the only thing that counts is the economic profit the breeder can get from their meat, and they are considered just as goods.
The calves don’t even have some straw to lie down: it would make the cleanings difficult, and in case the calves would eat the straw their meat would be less tender and less appreciated by the demanding consumers.
Pigs get a special treatment: as piglets they are castrated without anaesthesia because otherwise the taste of their meat would be too strong for the delicate lovers of ham. Then the tail is cut and the tooth filed: the stress provoked by factory farming drive the animals crazy inducing aggressive psychotic behaviours, and without these measures the pigs would hurt each other.
The same happens with the poultry: hens and chickens get their beak cut to prevent being hit to death from the other stressed animals.
Then they get crammed in one on top of the other in tiny crates: on the room of a newspaper page have to live four adult animals, and when the average productivity of the crate decreases they get sent to the slaughterhouse.
Milk cows are also reared in small spaces and get slaughtered when their productivity goes below the threshold decided by the breeder.
