Factory Farm Folklore

For the most part, huge rumors and falsified ideas fly through the grapevine faster than anything else. The same goes for the  agricultural world as well. In an effort to stay factual, I will avoid the tall tales around the way slaughter houses operate and the repugnant situations in which animals are forced to live. What we will focus on is possibly one of the most under estimated tall tales, one that you probably don't even know you believe. It's a tall tale that when proper light is shed upon it can be beneficial in debunking the other mistruths that might be out there.

When we talk about the worlds agricultural demands on necessities, we often think about huge chop houses, or factories built in such a large way that they can process thousands of cows or pigs in a day. But according to an article published by the editorial staff at Iowa State University, eighty percent of the farms in Iowa are family farms and that "the term 'factory farms' has been used in an attempt to discredit the work that family farms do every day to provide our growing population with the fid, fiber, and fuel we need to survive...These claims are simply untrue and are part of a smear of campaign from those who distrust the current agricultural market" (par 2).

It's clear that all though the other myths about animal cruelty in factory farms weren't abolished, at least we can take away that about 80% of the amount of animals we think are completely cramped in close quarters might be really doing well on family style farm.