In this essay, I will talk about if factory farms should be allowed. A factory farm is where large amount of life stock are kept in a small area. The animals are so closely packed; some of them can't turn around or lay down. The animals are fed by machines and sell the life stocks when they are full grown.
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There are many reasons why shouldn't factory farms be allowed. Firstly, it's about animal cruelty. The hygienic conditions in factory farms are very, very bad. The faeces that animals in factory farms have produced are kept at the area where the animals live. This causes serious hygienic problems. The faeces produced by the animals will become a breading site for bacteria's and viruses. And if one of the animals is infected with this disease, it will spread the disease to other animals nearby and will cause the whole factory farm to be infected with the disease. That's what exactly that happened in Hong Kong recently. The bird flu broke out and we had to stop eating chicken for a few months. You don't want to stop eating chicken for ever, do you?.
Another problem in factory farms is the antibiotics that the factory farms give to the animals. They add antibiotics into the animals. Food so that the animals can over come the diseases that can spread through out the factory farms. Do you want to eat all the chemicals that people put into the animals in factory farms? But, this just led to bigger problems. Because the animals in factory farms are fed with antibiotics in their food every day, the germs that are supposedly killed by the antibiotics, will soon form a new strain of bacteria's and viruses that can resist the antibiotics. This means that the animals will get infected and the disease will spread all over the factory farm. And this time, the germs have a resistance against the antibiotics which were used to kill them, the germs will be much harder to get rid of and this will cause an even bigger problem than before.
