The year 2014 was touted as being the warmest year on record. Global development is becoming more automated, leaving behind a host of disasters accumulating into huge problems. Factory farming goes against all issues of morality, ethics, and animal rights. It also doesn't get the blame for global warming it deserves. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, operations behind animal agriculture account for almost 18% of carbon dioxide emitted as greenhouse gases. This essay is a firm conviction that factory farms are a detriment to public health and the environment, in addition to being severely cruel to the animals subjected to inhumane treatment. As humans capable of expressing emotion, the existence of factory farms is contradictory. In an article published in, "Consumer Affairs," not many people are aware that consuming dog meat is legal is 44 states in America. While the general American public would cringe at the prospect of dog meat, the treatment of cows, sheep, goats, chicken, and other palatable animals that are subjected to immense torture, continues to go unquestioned. If it is illegal, or racist, to subjugate someone based on their nationality or color or race, shouldn't it be the same among animals? Without advocating for vegetarianism, factory farms are the breeding grounds for disease. Cows are injected with hormones, that adjust their bodies to the false feeling of being continuously pregnant, to produce hormone-ridden milk throughout the year. Those that are too old or weak, are slaughtered while still ridden with hormones in their flesh and bloodstream. Pigs are stashed in crates too tiny for them to move in, simply because restricting their movement causes a buildup in fat. Chickens are cooped into cages so small that they cannot spread their wings. In their frustration they tend to attack the other birds that are close by, so their beaks are cut off by painful saws. The same treatment is meted out to she