You really have to watch terms like "factory farming". Just because they raise a lot of animals for food doesn't necasarily mean it's going to be inhumane. No, having chickens running loose in the yard isn't going to happen for getting eggs for the population of the United States. Especially not with the eggs being cheap enough for most families to afford them.

Part of the tactics of HSUS in their attacks is to portrey all animal agriculture as the worst possible way they can video. Then they clip it up so it's the worst thing you could imagine, then they present that as EVERY animal agriculture place existing.

Just like chickens in egg farms can be kept humanely in "battery" cages to produce eggs, not all farms that commercially produce meat animals are automatically cruel, nor are they all horror houses depicted in Peta's films. They might not be the ideal environment for the perfect animal, but they are not the evil places you see in Peta and HSUS's propaganda films either.

I support treating the animals as humanely as possible, but I also support our farmers being the ones who know the animals best. HSUS likes to say that letting the farmers decide how to keep the animals is like letting the fox run the henhouse. But that's really not true. Letting AR folks decide how farmers should keep animals, is like letting a bread baker design a car. You might get some sort of car that LOOKS okay, and the bread baker might be happy as a clam, but I wouldn't want to ride in it.