Animals in these farm factories are crowed so tight together never seeing sunlight that they get sick and have to be given large amounts of antibiotics and other meds. They are standing in their own feces which cause diseases. They are given hormones to increase their weight, so that now they can't stand, and cows utters are so large they can't stand. Pigs especially get so nervous with the over crowding that they begin to eat each other. Chickens are so crowed that there feet start growing to the wired cages (floor). Their beaks are trimmed and is very painful so they won't peck each other to death. The animals are not able to move around at all, so as to make them more tender.
The animals are NOT always dead when they start processing them. They wait in line for THEIR turn while watching and hearing what is happening. The animals are not treated with any compassion at all. they are thrown around and treated as objects. They are kept in 24 hour lighting, smelly cages their whole life. Yes and the baby cows, veal, are taken from their mothers after 1 or 2 days old. Tied up so they can't move to make them more tender, and made anemic so that their meat is more white. Not giving them the iron they need.
Right now people are boy cotting KFC because of the cruelty to their chickens.
When we buy meat of any kind we by hormone free, free range. They are treated much better. But we've really cut down on animal products.
The fur industry is the worst. They many times skin animals alive because they are in such a hurry to get as many done as possible.
The favorite way for foxes is to shove an electric prod up their back ends and at the same time shove one in their mouth to electrocute them. They like this process because at the same time it makes their fur fluffy.