Causes Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur/Unsplash Food waste’s enormous impact on animal welfare: Wasted meat, milk, and eggs Almost 1 in every 4 animals raised on a factory farm never actually makes it to your plate. Instead, they die for nothing.
Causes investigatemidwest.org Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more CAFOs have been a point of contention between the livestock industry and environmental activists since they began to proliferate in the 1990s, overtaking small, pasture-feeding operations as the dominant form of animal agriculture in the US.