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Intensive Farming Alan Campbell, 4Q Many arguments exist concerning the issue of Intensive Farming. Emotional, sentimental and diverse views are, as always with a topic such as this, greatly prevalent. Perceptions simply containing arguments of animal welfare are many, however not all arguments fully acknowledge the pressures upon farmers to produce livestock by such means. The processes used in intensive, or factory farming, have been developed over many years to cater for increasing demand for good quality, inexpensive foodstuffs. As the swell in the population of Scotland and the consequential increase in demand for food forced farmers to improve technological conditions in their farms in the nineteenth century, such pressures have also forced present day owners of agricultural land and livestock to improve their methods to increase production. However, the pressures prevalent today are concerned mainly with availability of inexpensive products. Farmers have developed many new processes by which they rear livestock....

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