A provocative examination of the mass-production method of raising animals, studies the effects of overcrowding, poor nutrition, drugs, artificial insemination, and lack of exercise on animals bred for consumption.

"A Herbert Michelman book."

1. Factory Life : What it's like to be a Biomachine -- 2. Factory health: Even Biomachines get sick and die -- 3. Factory Management: The Biomachine designed, assembled, modified, tuned in, and turned up -- 4. Food from the factory: Are biomachines good to eat? -- 5. The Food factory in reverse: Wastage in Factory -- 6. Hidden costs of running he factory: Who's paying them? -- 7. Factory agribusiness: the farmer as victim, or who's making the real money? -- 8. Factory Ethics: The moral cost of animal factories -- 9. In place of animal factories: toward a better way of life for consumers, farmers, and farm animals.