factory farmed

• reared animals are animals raised by humans specifically for their meat
• factory farmed animals dont have much room to move - they mat be in cages or with lots of other animals in the same place, this is a form of intensive farming
• animals are kept inside in warm sheds, so they dont waste much energy moving or keeping themselves warm, which means that more of their energy foes into producing meat or eggs and maximises food production
• animals are sometimes given things like growth hormones or are force fed to speed up their growth - making it even quicker and cheaper to produce meat
• people are becoming more concerned that intensively reared animals dont live very nice lives, they are likely to suffer from diseases, cant behave naturally and are killed very young
• some people believe that meat from factory reared animals dont taste as nice