What is a "Factory Farm" or "Mega Farm"?

Hear what Ryan thinks about large, intensive, modern hog farms.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• pigs
• pork
• farm
• farming
• meat
• corn
• soybean
• family
• hogs
• sows
• barn
• humane
• environment
• factory
• mega
• industry

[OhioPorkTour]

Buildings allow farmers to regulate the pig's air, water, and feed quality. The barn provides a protection from harsh weather conditions and predators, regulates temperature, and prevents the spread of disease. The health and safety of the pigs, piglets and farmers are the guiding factors when designing a hog facility.

[TheJSmithBA]

1000 pigs roaming freely! LOL This guy obviously doesn't know about the old days.

[olivemypikachuu]

He forgot to show us the giant vats of liquid feces!!!!! And the neighbors suffering from asthma and other breathing conditions from all the air pollution...

[MNTRYJOSEPH]

@scotty8520

Actually a pig factory farm of 5,000 Animals creates as much waste as a city of 50,000 humans. Man needs to stop this mass breeding of so-called food Animals. care2.com/causes/fecal-matters­.html

[Coatsful]

@MNTRYJOSEPH Modern hog facilities have computer operated ventilation systems. They bring fresh air in, heat it or cool it, and continually move the air in the building. Secondly, I don't care how large of an area you give hogs, they will root up and destroy all the grass in the given area within a short amount of time. Hogs are very destructive to the environment. Hogs that are grown in outdoor facilities, die from predators, disease, and bullying among the pigs themselves. Hogs are mean!

[Coatsful]

I have severe asthma and I have worked in a confinement hog operation. As long as I take my meds, I didn't have any more problems with my asthma while I worked there. As a matter of fact, i had more problems with my asthma when I worked in a modern factory - we kept our hog confinement buildings cleaner and freer of dust than the factory I worked in that built heavy equipment.

[Ineke210000]

Go vegan

[moviematcanada]

@olivemypikachuu

Exactly Factory Farms are destroying our food source and environment all for cheap poisonous food!

[moviematcanada]

@TheJSmithBA

You want to see roaming freely check this out

/watch?v=VZkSwxRr3YE

This is a real compassionate farmer that really cares about his animals and the meat on my BBQ

[scotty8520]

@cellardream you are going to have to eliminate more that corn canola and cottoneseed oil from your diet to avoid gmo's. have about wheat oats barley? so that means bread, dough of any kind, grass you grow on your lawn.

[scotty8520]

@olivemypikachuu cities produce more pollution than any farm does.

[EmmaPhoebeSophia]

factory farm!