It is the only Federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. What it does not cover is the treatment of farm factory animals, an industry whereby the animals can be raised inside as opposed to outside and in large numbers. Factory Farming or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s) dominates the meat production industry raising over 10 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, turkeys, sheep, and other related animals annually in the United States, to being killed for food. These animals are not raised on family farms but on large agricultural facilities called factory farms also known as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s). Even though the USDA oversees food production laws, with no federal law in place they are limited on setting the humane standard of care for animals raised on the factory
It is the only Federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. What it does not cover is the treatment of farm factory animals, an industry whereby the animals can be raised inside as opposed to outside and in large numbers. Factory Farming or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s) dominates the meat production industry raising over 10 billion chickens, pigs, cattle, turkeys, sheep, and other related animals annually in the United States, to being killed for food. These animals are not raised on family farms but on large agricultural facilities called factory farms also known as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s). Even though the USDA oversees food production laws, with no federal law in place they are limited on setting the humane standard of care for animals raised on the factory