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Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]
They say that UEP certification permits routine cruel and inhumane factory farm practices [39] such as intensive confinement in restrictive, barren cages such that the hens cannot perform many of their natural behaviors such as perching, nesting, foraging or even fully stretching their wings. [40]
Humane Farm Animal Care is a nonprofit organization [1] established to promote and administer its certification and labeling program, Certified Humane Raised & Handled, for meat, dairy, eggs and poultry raised under its animal care standards in the US.
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The Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Hatching Eggs, Breeders, Chickens and Turkeys, [23] in Canada, lists the acceptable methods under the Appendix B, [26] grouped as recommended on-Farm or at hatcheries, being: Anesthetic Overdose; Non-Penetrating Captive Bolt (farm only), Penetrating Captive Bolt (farm only) Manual Blunt Force Trauma
Farm Forward is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to promote conscientious eating, reduce farmed animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture. Farm Forward aims to eliminate the most harmful practices in intensive animal agriculture, increase the market share of humane and sustainable animal agriculture, and raise awareness about the cultural significance of animal agriculture.
Foam depopulation or foaming is a means of mass killing farm animals by spraying foam over a large area to obstruct breathing and ultimately cause suffocation. [1] It is usually used to attempt to stop disease spread. [2] Foaming has also been used to kill farm animals after backlogs in slaughtering occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
Voiceless states that this intensification of agricultural practices has led to the widespread use of cruel and inhumane meat production practices, such as the debeaking of chickens, tail docking and teeth clipping of pigs, and mulesing of sheep, often undertaken without pain relief.