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Inside a dairy factory farm
The first thing I noticed upon entering was the smell: A putrid mix of mud, feed and days-old feces. Evidently the result of the automated “sanitisation” procedure that failed to adequately remove the muck, these washings merely aerosolised the stench. I looked upon the rows of pens, filled with rows of mother cows, and considered what it would be like for them, to be forced to...