Compassionate farmers have an uncomplimentary phrase: factory farms. Globally, some 1.3 billion people raise animals, accounting for a third of the world’s total agricultural gross domestic product. Many factory farmers will cry foul (forgive the pun), citing costs. And when the conditions are right, as it happened with the Nipah virus and others that followed, they make the jump, from animal to human. Time we had a rethink on how we run our animal farms.

Source: New Strait Times February 04, 2020 16:07 UTC