Using data from the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture, which was released this month, it is estimated that 70.4 percent of cows, 98.3 percent of pigs, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.2 percent of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat are raised in factory farms.
The percentage of animals raised on small family farms is negligible. That people like you aren't aware of this just shows how well this industry is hiding the truth.
The video is not representative of factory farms across the US. It is representative of some factory farms, but not the vast majority of them.
That people like you aren't aware that most factory farms operate differently from the few depicted in a vegan propaganda video just shows how well the progaganda is working.
Gag laws aren't needed, and most states and countries don't have them.
Some states have gag laws because activists kept trespassing onto farms and disrupting activities, including harassing workers and endangering themselves in order to get footage. There are several shots in the video in which the camera person could have fallen into the machinery and become sausage or fillets.
I claim that most of the practices in the film are unusual in the West, especially since they violate farm safety laws passed after the mad cow outbreak several decades ago. It's also not clear why footage from Asian factory fish farms is relevant to a discussion of factory farms in the West.
Over the past decade, the animal-agriculture industry has been behind the introduction of "ag-gag" bills in more than half of all state legislatures across the country.
You are arguing based on your anecdata vs actual longitudinal/ in depth analysis. Sure you and most of the people you immediately knew treated your animals well (my extended family was the same) - that does not negate the reality of factory farms in general.
There is no in-depth analysis in that video or website.
It's literally just pictures of animals being slaughtered in (primarily) overseas food facilities, at least one of which appears to be an open-air fish market. So, not representative of the claims about factory farming.
https://vimeo.com/209647801
This is the reality of farm life for most animals, despite what you often see in commercials etc.