on and on; basically these factory farms are not sustainable.
             The most alarming of the long list of health concerns that mass production of animal protein involves, is the use of antibiotics in their food. The crowded environments where the animals are confined and forced to grow promotes the development of injuries and infections that are commonly treated by routinely applying a regular dose of antibiotics in the already hormone-altered food destined to nourish the animals. Hundreds of thousands of animals (mainly cows, pigs, chickens or turkeys) are cramped forcefully together and are neglected of the normal conditions for ordinary growth such as sunlight, fresh air and space for ordinary movement. The lack of these vital elements often generates deformations on pigs' feet which are mean to live in soil, not in concrete, therefore producing open sores and lesions in their extremities which are irresponsibly treated by feeding them antibiotics. Chicks are restricted to an even smaller area encaged six per small box. Often a fully developed chicken in a factory farm has as little as six-tenths of a square foot of space to live. Because of this extreme crowding, the birds endure tremendous amounts of stress becoming aggressive toward one another, which leads to fights that translate in open wounds hard to treat on an individual basis. The CAFOs had developed a painful practice to solve the problem and began mass mutilation (debeaking) of the birds in addition to the routinely dose of antibiotics added to their feed in other to keep bacteria levels down. Some of these facilities produce millions of animals per year and many farmers recur to fluoroquinolone to promote growth and contain E.Coli infections in poultry.
             "Poultry growers use fluoroquinolone drugs to keep chickens and turkeys from dying from Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection, a disease that they could pick up from their own droppings. But the size of flocks p...