Footnotes
1. Dr. Ian Duncan, Professor of Poultry Ethology, University of Guelph, in The State of Poultry Welfare in Cda (Ottawa: Animal Action, 1996).
2. Canada Poultryman Magazine, January 1992.
3. Farm & Country (Canadian based), April 25, 1989.

FACTS ABOUT FACTORY FARMS

Hundreds to thousands of animals (mainly cows, pigs, chickens or turkeys) are confined tightly together and provided little or no access to sunlight, fresh air or room for natural movement.

Public health problems, including the overuse of antibiotics and food borne illness is often a common problem in these farms.

Many of these farms mutilate the animals such as debeaking poultry, clipping pigs' tails and teeth, and docking cows' tails without the use of anesthetics.