Animal abuse on farms

Livestock today is not how we imagined it when we were little ones with happy and healthy animals, reality is very far from that imagination, many people are not aware of where those meats come from that are packaged and sealed in supermarkets. The vast majority of industrial farms are large facilities where in each one there are around 3,000 caged animals or pens, where everything works automatically with constant flows of animal movement, where water and food come out of automated dispensers with great precision.

For a farmer, animals are his resources and nobody mistreats the resources they feed him, the quality of life of animals influences the speed at which they grow and the final state of their meat. Threats to animal welfare, including stress or genetic modifications, can compromise the health and safety of food.

The growth of organic farming has its own challenges in terms of animal welfare and food safety in terms of the safety of the animals, the residence of parasites and the presence of toxic residues in the food produced. Therefore, there is no intensive or organic form of farming that is free from animal welfare concerns.

To ensure and increase the quality of life of farm animals it is necessary that they have the "five freedoms of sentient animals".

- May they be free from hunger and thirst.

- That they are free from pain, wounds and diseases

- May they be free from discomfort.

- That they are free from fear and stress.

- That they are free to express normal behavior.

My position in the face of this problem is to seek and implement parameters or rules in all possible industrial farms to improve the lives of farm animals and maintain the animal welfare that they deserve and it is not only an ethical but also an economic issue since it will improve the quality of their meat by improving their quality of life.