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Quality of life for livestock is a concern. Reportedly inhumane living conditions on farms really get to me. When a pig, an animal as intelligent as a three or four year old child, is caged into an area so small that it can't even turn around, and is then kept there for years until slaughter, something isn't right.
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Thanks for helping to clarify my own thoughts on the subject !!
Chickens that are not free ranging, also, are treated most disgusting. They are in such close quarters that they can't even spread their wings. The stress causes them to beak each other into the head, thus the practice of sanding most of their beaks off, which I understand is also very very painful.
Their whole entire lives, crammed together so close they die from each other's weight. Fed so much hormones that they get too heavy for their own bones to support their weight.
As you say, something is not right. If the truth is anywhere even close to these descriptions ( which I suspect it is in large factory hen farming ), then the practice is just savage and vile.
We have international laws that prevent us treating our enemies, or even the worst violent criminals a hundred times more humanely than that.