Map From https://iowa-map.sentientmedia.org/
Source for the 99% stat https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed
Map From https://iowa-map.sentientmedia.org/
Source for the 99% stat https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed
I see we’re being pretty liberal with the word “factory farm” here.
A decent chunk of the animals represented here are cows in pastures. If you ever drive through Iowa you’ll see dozens of them sun bathing on a hillside several times per mile.
Turns out if you don’t let them chill comfortably they get pretty pissy, and at roughly 1000 pounds, one pissy cow is a problem. Half again more so for a bull. Imagine a herd of pissed off 1000 pound animals in a barn, and you’ll see why “factory farms” are generally just large pastures of lots of cows. Kinda the same for the pigs.
A lot of these though are chickens, which, I mean yeah it’s as bad as it sounds when we’re talking about chickens.
They used the EPA’s definition of a medium to large Concentrated Animal Feeding Farm. They actually excluded small CAFOs which most would consider still factory farms