Factory Farming and Animal CrueltyAnimal rights are virtually non-existent in many ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to poor, defenseless animals. Factory farming involves chickens, cows, pigs, and many other animals that are used for food, milk, and eggs. One of the largest organizations against factory farming is called Compassion Over Killing (COK). They go to great lengths to protest and inform the population about animal cruelty. Chickens have to endure suffering that no living thing should have to endure. Laying hens must be forced into tiny cages without enough space to spread their wings. Up to 8 hens are crammed into a cage the size of a folded newspaper, about 11 to 14 inches. The stress of confinement causes significant feather loss, so the chicken will be almost completely bald in cold cages. When the chickens are old enough to lay eggs their beaks are cut without any painkillers to relieve the pain, they do this so the chickens don't break their own eggs and eat them because they are hungry. Fortunately, broiler chickens for them only live up to 7 weeks until they are large enough to be slaughtered. Their lives begin in incubator trays with hundreds and thousands of other chicks without enough space to stand and not enough space to take two small steps. So for the first week of their life it ranges from cramp tubs to cramp boxes to being dumped on the dirty floors of the building....