What intensive farming means -- for the animals and for the environment. (BBC Countryfile)

[Alexstar1250]

finaly a smart person on youtube lol stupid vegans think that just cus we cant run fast enough and catch an animal with our teeth then we are not suposed to eat meat, wtf lol we were given the superior intelligence to come up with methods to catch animals like weapons to hunt and if we werent suposed to eat meat then how come it doesnt make us sick? how come we love it so much? cus for example an iguana cant eat meat and if it does its kidneys would fail instantly, nothing like that hapens to us

[emmiricu]

Malcolm is a jerk u should be treated like u treat those pigs!!!!!!!!!! poor pigs they deserve better

[tmbthompson]

In regards to gestation/farrowing crates in hog farming: these crates really are in the pigs best interests. If you observe pigs in the wild or in non-confined operations, they wear visible scars of fighting and mutilation. Pigs are omnivores, not herbivores like most livestock. They will chew on each other. The farrowing crates are used to protect the piglets whose number one cause of death is being crushed by their 1000 lb + mother.

[lupanubis]

@tmbthompson you sound so compassionate, what would YOU feel like being exploited senselessly all your life and maybe forced to live in such a confined space that you are not even able to stand or to turn around. Intensive farming is a SHAME and I hope one day it will end.

[meezerlover]

There is "factory farming" and there is factory farming. I love animals just as much as any one else does..BUT-realistically-, we all have to eat. I was NOT raised a vegeterian, nor at thispoint do I want to become one. If animals can be kept -humanely- then I see nothig wrong with this. Being at the Farm in Indiana just last Sunday I thought the operation there covered all the bases. And believe me, if I could have found one thing that looked off, I would have been the first one screaming out.

[sirNamkai]

THESE ARE BEINGS, NOT FUCKING OBJECTS!

[MrTommyw24]

no-one who has commented on this video has looked at the wider picture the sole purpose of those animals being alive is to produce food and has been for hundereds of years what they are doing in the u.s is the healthiest and kindest way of producing the food if intensive farming was not about we would have a world food shortage with millions of human deaths!!!!!

[21MelanieWolf12]

Please stop this indescribably cruelty to animals!!!

This disrespects the Creation!

It can't be healthy to eat those abused animals!

Please consider a vegan diet!

[Hollisterchic365]

i want to go in their and slit THEIR THROATS!

[ValiantBandit]

Typical meat-eater response:

"Pigs are not human."

Yeah yet they're smarter than Dogs or Cats.

Imagine if they had a huge Dog slaughter farm?

There's a Pig farm right down the road from where I live. The smell is horrific and it reminds me every day of why I don't eat meat.

[rjrhampton]

Go Vegan! Save the planet and animals. The less food demand, the fewer meat animals will be 'produced'. The pig farm was repulsive. Go Vegan!

[Alexstar1250]

@rjrhampton the food demand from animals will never decrease, it increases more and more every year, if we stoped eating animlas we wouldnt save the planet, that would actually destroy it cus we would have over population of animals eating all the vegatation, God gave us the right to eat animals and has living creatures in order to conserve life we must take life, go hug a tree!!!

[DeepRedBlue]

@Alexstar1250 we wouldnt have over population of animals! Dont be ridiculous. Its humans that breed these farm animals, theyre not running wild and free and reproducing everywhere.

[Alexstar1250]

@DeepRedBlue dude really??? did u ever pay attention in science class when u were little??? humans are the top predator of the food chain thanx to our superior brain, animal population in the wild is controlled by predators and if you take one group of predators of the chart then that would completely fuk everything up, is as simple as this = imagine taking lions out of africa, do u realize how many zebras there would be? seriously dude are u dumb? please read a book and then hug ur trees after.

[lupanubis]

@Alexstar1250 next time you feel hungry go and catch some prey you moron. Food chain has nil to do with exploiting animals in this brutal manner and everything to do with feeding in a sustainable way ie: only collecting whats needed. I say "collecting" as us humans are meant to eat fruit, seeds and vegetables. Nature has NOT provided us with such apparatus as to catch, chew, digest animal protein. You are defending your habit of eating cadavers with very poor arguments. Go figure.

[Alexstar1250]

@lupanubis you really are a dumbass arent you??? go talk to a nutritionist and ask him about not eating meat and see what he'll tell you. Im an MMA fighter and everytime i have to cut weight i go on a vegan diet which makes me lose about 10 pounds a week, makes me pale, weak, and almost pass out at the gym, i hate it it simply makes me feel so unhealthy, humans have been eating animals for millions of years so i dont know why dumbass vegans keep trying to change that and say its wrong, so stupid

[AsheIsSketchy]

@Alexstar1250 I agree. I'm also very physically active and while I eat a lot of vegetables/whole grains, if I go more than a day without animal protien, I feel really weak and horrible. Humans have physical means to catch and kill small animals and have been using natural tools to capture larger prey for their entire existence as a species, so lupanubis' argument falls pretty flat. The only bad thing about it is obscene portions, overprocessing and overcooking (carcinogens).

[AsheIsSketchy]

@lupanubis Wrong.

[rjrhampton]

Such a huge dairy farm has a lot of unwanted bobby cows that are then sold for veal. I just see greedy pigs, rubbing their hands with glee. All at the expense of animals.

[tmbthompson]

@rjrhampton: any dairy operation has "bobby" cows that are sold for veal. Male offspring really serve no purpose for dairies since most use artificial insemination methods/semen from proven bulls. The number of bull calves has been drastically reduced by using 'sexed' semen that can help guarantee heifer calves that will continue the milk production and genetic improvement of the farm. These animals are not produced at their own expense. Why would agriculturalists harm their own livelihood?

[hellybelly6]

I will fight tooth and nail to stop this happening in the UK.



[rakerman102]

I don't think that building a mega dairy like Fair Oaks or even Rosendale is ok for the enviroment and the people and the farms. Its true that big farms are putting small farms out of buisness. And just because big farmers say that 99% of dairies in the U.S. are still family owned they don't mention any thing about being family operated. That number would be like 50% if someone was to find out.