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▲ Chickenscannotmovewellinthebatterycage.
▲ Alotofpigsliveinthestall,whichisacagemadeofiron.Itisso
smallthattheycanbarelyenterthestall.
some important work in the recurrence of highly
In other cases, cattle often eat meat and bone meal
pathogenic livestock disease.” Consequently, many
provided from farmers. This feed exposed them
antibiotics can be administered to animals, but
to an environment that made them susceptible to
it cannot completely prevent a viral infection. In
illness. This disease is called Bovine Spongiform
reality, when avian flu, one of viruses that break out
Encephalopathy (BSE), and it was transferred to
among wild birds or poultry like chickens and ducks,
humans who had eaten sick cattle. It is called by its
occurred, it spread rapidly among chickens. Coping
variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In 2014 National
with such a fast-spreading disease is very difficult
Geographic released a report titled “4th Death from
because birds can be infected through excrement as
Mad Cow Disease Confirmed in the United States,”
well as from direct contact. As well, chickens have
which covers a person who died by a rare and fatal
lowresistancetoviruses,sotheycanhavedifficulties
brain disorder assumed to be caught by eating beef
inbreathingandthereforedie.
infectedwithBSEintheU.S.Thisshowsthathumans
Besides, a battery cage leaves chickens in pain. 95
arealsobeingthreatenedintermsofhealthandsafety
percent of poultry farms in Korea use this cage type,
duetofactoryfarmingsystem.
whose shape is batteries - stacked to accommodate
a bunch of hens. Chickens cannot do anything there
Environmentalpollution
otherthaneatingfeedandproducingeggs.Inthisway,
Raising too much livestock additionally results
the factory farming system has irreparably damaged
in environmental pollution. Most of all, problems
manyanimals.
occurred by livestock excretions are very serious.
These excretions contain a lot of nitrogen and
phosphorus, so they could be used as manure in the
Humans’healthbeingthreatened
The factory farming system negatively influences
past. Though, the amount of excretions these days
humans as well as animals. The “Pesticide Egg
is too much to have it utilized as manure, so it is
Incident,” that swiped the whole country in 2017,
now impossible to use it this way. In addition, piled
happened due to eggs contaminated from the toxic
excretions give off a bad smell, and the spilling of
pesticides. Wild chickens generally remove pests
suchwastecancontaminateboththesoilandwater.
adhered to their bodies by scrubbing their bodies in
Arealcaseexampleofsuchcontaminationoccurred
the soil or scattering sand with their feet. However,
in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province. In
they cannot do those actions because of the cramped
2015,thescaleofrearingpigsinSouthChungcheong
space of these types of farms. Eventually, the stock
Province occupied 21.1 percent, the highest amount
keeper cannot help but to kill pests by spraying
in the country. In Hongseong, the scale occupied 24
pesticide. For these reasons, eggs were impregnated
percent, nearly twice that of Dangjin, another city
with pesticides, and those contaminated eggs were
in South Chungcheong Province (12.4 percent). This
soldinthemarketforanunspecifiedamountoftime.
figureimpliesthatHongseonghasthenation’slargest
Peoplewereappalledbythefactthattheymighthave
hog farms and is the area where animals are raised
consumedthoseeggs.
densely. As the livestock industry has developed,
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