I don't think the general public would want to pay the sort of prices necessary to get rid of factory farming, that's why they turn a blind eye. Everything nowadays is about money. My Dad was a farmer and would never have allowed pigs and cattle to live in such cramped conditions. He believed animals deserved a good life. He obviously didn't care quite so much about hens! We had battery hens as well as some free range. However, I used to get upset when I saw programmes on TV saying how battery hens couldn't walk or fly.......the people who made those programmes should have tried catching them when they occasionally escaped. I'm not condoning the use of cages, we just didn't know any better back in the sixties. I was glad when a ban was introduced.