Factory Farming and Animal Cruelty Animal rights are virtually non-existent in many different ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to poor defenseless animals. Intensive farming affects 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 out of their way to protest and inform people about animal cruelty. Chickens have to endure suffering that no living thing should have to endure. Egg-laying hens must be forced into tiny cages without enough space to stretch their wings. Up to 8 hens are crammed into a cage the size of a folded newspaper, about 11-14 inches. Stress from confinement leads to severe feather loss, so the chicken will be almost completely bald in cold cages. When the hens are of egg laying age, the beaks are trimmed without painkillers to relieve the pain, they do this so that the hens do not break their own eggs and eat them because the hens are hungry. Broilers, luckily for them, only live up to 7 weeks until they are old enough to be slaughtered. Their life begins in incubator trays with hundreds and thousands of other chicks without enough head room to stand up, and not enough room to take 2 small steps. So, for the first week of their lives, they go from cramp trays, to cramp boxes, to being dumped on t-dirty floors.....