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When you have to go pick up dinner and drive to your nearest grocery store, you’re probably not thinking about where your food comes from or how it even gets to the store – but in reality, there is a very long process before your dinner makes it to your plate, involving tons of resources.
In the United States alone, around
27 billion animals are raised for food every year. These animals are subjected to extreme confinement where they live in fear and pain on factory farms. In the U.S., an incredible 99 percent of farmed animals are now bred in factory farms. But thanks to growing public awareness, people are becoming more and more aware of the conditions that animals raised for food are kept in, and many are reducing or eliminating their consumption of animal products as a result.