Factory farms are incubators for disease. It's just another foolish practice for 'saving money'. If you know what 'Economy of scale' practices are, the cost of production is reduced and offset by the 'efficiency' of large-sized operations. Except this only works intermittently. The often cramped housing of animals reduces sanitation, stresses the animals, and this, in itself compromises the animal's immune system. To protect against this, increased vaccination, and immune-compromising sterilants and cleaners are used. There are more diseased animals in factory farms, These are quickly removed and even processed. You'd be surprised at the amount of diseased animals that are slaughtered and sent into the market place.
A good example of how factory farms are incubators of disease is the so-called 2009 swine flu epidemic. The origin of it was at a giant commercial pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico. Each year 950,000 hogs are raised there. A pig produces 10 times as much fecal waste as a human. Think about this for a moment. That would equal a city of 1-million people. Now, imagine a city the size of NYC or Chicago having no sanitation treatment plants. This is precisely what corporate pig farms get away with. There are no sanitation processing plants.
At the pig farm in La Gloria, huge feces lagoons are used to collect all the excrement and it sits there out in the sun.
>"The lagoons were routinely sprayed with toxic chemicals. Workers were falling ill. What a shock. So they brought in people to spray even more toxic chemicals on the pig shit lagoons. They needed a major environmental clean-up. Instead, they got World Health and CDC virus hunters."
Accordingly, have you ever wondered why the cities of LA and SF jeopardized the health of its citizens by allowing the homeless to defecate on the streets everywhere? Why were they protecting the squatting "rights" of the homeless and allowing these unsanitary conditions to only get worse? It wasn't long afterwards that the 'China Virus' was hatched on American people. Do you think that 'some' powerful people were trying to create the conditions for a pandemic?
The very best thing you can do for your family is to buy meat and produce from small farmers. Farms that produce certified organic may cost more, but you are also purchasing GMP (good manufacturing practices) for the meat and produce you buy. Many people may not have this as a viable option to use, but you still can join a food club or cooperative online. You go in and buy a side of beef with your friend(s) or neighbor(s). The cost is worth it. You are not only assuring healthy food for your family, but you are supporting local small farmers instead of factory farms as well.
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