Harvesting Animals For Food

I found the video "Meet Your Meat" pretty disgusting and disturbing. I can't believe people can treat animals so horribly. I think animals need to be treated with respect even if the purpose of their lives is just to be slaughtered. I think the butchers are so used to slaughtering animals that they forget that they are living animals that have feelings and can feel pain. Although the video was gross and made me angry that the animals were being treated horribly I also had in the back of my mind that it was made by PETA and was biased, they want to convince the viewer to become a vegetarian and only show the bad clips.
I have heard before about how chickens are treated badly in factories, but I wasn't aware of the whole process that chickens have to go through just so that I can have it on my plate until I read "Hidden Cost of Cheap Chicken". Everything is geared towards speed of production and cutting labor costs. Money has become a more important issue than making sure chickens are not in pain and handled properly. If they have to stuff lots of chickens in chicken sheds, give them hormones to grow faster and bigger etc. to make more profit than they will do it.
I wish we could stop factory farming, and just farm chickens normally, but we wouldn't be able to feed everybody and I love chicken to much to quit eating it so I think we just need to improve factory conditions, make sure they are treated properly, they are given room , poop is cleaned more often, etc. With a few minor adjustments I think we can improve the livelihood of these chickens.

Western Book Recommendation:
Nierenberg, Danielle. Happier Meals: Rethinking The Global Meat Industry. Washington, D.C. Worldwatch Institute.2005
Location: Wilson 4W Books Call # TS1955.N54 2005

Summit Book Recommendation:
Leckie, Keith, Study On Government Regulation In The Red Meat Industry. Ottawa: Economic Counil of Cana, 1980
Institution: University of Washington Location: GovPub Canada stacks call # CANEc74W893 no.8