New Zealanders Should Never Dream Of Being Cruel - 1604 Words

New Zealanders would never dream of being cruel to an animal. After all animals are sentient beings. Therefore they are capable of being aware of sensations and emotions of feeling pain and suffering. In today’s world, factory farming has become popular as they are cheaper ways to produce more output efficiently. The industry strives to maximize output and revenue while minimising cost at the expense of animals. The giant companies that run most of the factory farming have developed caging systems which allow for greater animals to be living in small crammed space for greater profit and output.These animals are deprived of exercise of that their body’s energy contributes more towards producing flesh, milk or egg. Drugs are fed and animals are being genetically altered to be grown fat so they could keep them alive longer. We as humans, eat a lot of eggs. Just over 3 million eggs are consumed by New Zealanders and the vast majority of these eggs are produced from factor y farmed eggs (Hibbard, 2014). The factory farmed hens are placed in small battery hen cages allowing space similar to an A4 size sheet. These animals have their beaks trimmed to minimise feather pecking and cannibalism in this overcrowded conditions. De -beaking is an extremely painful process, which is carried out with a guillotine type machine or chopped off with a hot knife machine that burns it off. Due to this factory farmed animals are not able to display normal natural behaviours including moving