Conditions of the productive animals in farms. (0)

Conditions of the productive animals in farms.
The inescapable fact is that the conditions in big farms, especially in factory farms, are unacceptably bad. Recent proof of that was the Põima farm case in Estonia were 260 cows are starving. Animals are wet because of their own excrements, some spots on their body are furless, their bones poke out from their skin and they can hardly stand up. What is more, they do not have food or litter , so they lie on cold cemented floor that is covered with dung.
This problem is not actual only in Estonia.Also the reality of Finnish factory farming was recently revealed. Producers arguments as there are severe problems related to intensive farming abroad and animals in Finland are treated properly, were more than doubt filling .
That is why there was conducted an inquiry to investigate the real conditions in Finnish farms.
During the investigation 21 Finnish broiler farms, 60 pig factories and 20 egg were visited during a year-long period between 2006 and 2007. The size of the egg farms varied from thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals.
It was found out that in all the broiler farms there were dead and crippled birds . It can be said that most of these problems exict because there is not enough space for birds. They are kept in huge factory sheds, each containing 15,000-25,000 animals. It also means that individual care is impossible which also leads to the fact that those animals suffer day after day for all their life.
In almost every pig farm there were many inadmissible problems. For example, pigs were kept in filthy confined pens , they had scars and injuries . Usually they were bodily harmed because of the lack of space. In every third visited piggery there were dead pigs. Furthermore , carcasses were left among the other pigs.
In all the visited chicken farms their habitants were stressed and often had signs of pecking. In many of these farms there were dead hens and the corpses were decayed. It is obvious that this is a huge health risk for all the other animals in the farm.
In Finland this survey was recorded with digital cameras. The videos and pictures were published and soon there were responses that these materials are fake or filmed elsewhere. Everyone who sees those pictures and videos realises that they are real and the problem is so serious that something must be embarked upon at once. The pictures that are taken at the Põima farm prove that the problem is also huge in Estonia. One possible way to show people how serious the problem is, is to distribute those materials. Often just talking about something serious does not create the image to the people and they need proof to realise the deepness of it.
Even more, recently WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) published an international report , where it is said that most of the 61 milliard farm animals who are raised to get milk , meet or eggs , are living in cruel conditions and are suffering from severe maltreatment.
The report also exteriorizes the main ways of ill-treatment of the farm animals. One thing is that the calves are taken away from their mothers few days after they are born. Although they should be together 9-12 months. What is more, 75% of 5,6 milliard hens are kept in so small cages that they cannot even stretch their wings. In addition , those chickens that are raised to get meat , are living in rooms that have no windows . There are even 50,000 birds together and they are usually overfed so they have heart problems and leg injuries. Furthermore, in some farms pigs in-calf are tied to the floor and kept in very small loose-boxes. Besides all that, in some countries calves are kept in „solitary confinement“ in small cages and they are fed unnaturally with the intention to get „white meat“.
Consequently, we can say that the problem is far- spread everywhere and it is getting more and more serious. Fact is that something has to be done soon or the problem entrenches so that after a while there is nothing to do that solves the problem. Even more, it is possible that people think it is normal and this is the way how animals who are raised to get something from them , should be treated.
The results from the investigation in Finland show that suffering animals are not an exception but a rule in Finnish animal production . Also this material shows that animal suffering is an inseparable part of the production- animals are seen as products and commodities instead of sentient beings.
First step to aspire after the wellbeing of productive animals is to raise the awareness of people about how the farm animals are treated during the intense manufacturing. So people and organisations that have already realised the seriousness of this problem have set their sights on showing people that we should care about animals and we as consumers can help to solve the problem. Agriculturalists can treat animalt better and everyone of us can help by avoiding mass production.
People who revealed the reality of Finnish factory farming have the attitude that everyone of us should have. They have said that sometimes we just cannot sit back and wait for somebody to do something. They simply just got up and took action for the defenceless.
Due to the fact that the problem has been brought up in several countries and by different organisations everyone should realise that the problem very serious and something should be undertaken at once.
References

http://www.loomakaitse.ee/et/9/3/616/

http://www.loomakaitse.ee/et/9/3/676

http://www.oikeuttaelaimille.net/ttnet/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=174

http://www.postimees.ee/270207/esileht/siseuudised/247061.php