The Omnivore's Dilemma: IS there anything good about CAFOs?

Well, I finished The Omnivore's Dilemma yesterday and I have to say that it was a truly fascinating book. He brings up a good point in the book when he speaks abolut the humane treatment of animals. I am proud to be a human because even in the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) cares are taken to humanely execute the food animals. I believe that is one of the defining characteristics of being human: that we attempt to slaughter animals with respect\. Even in some of the most industrial processing facilities one facet of the process that is completely humane is the process  by which the animal is slaughtered. Death is almost instantaneous as a metal bolt is fired through the animals head, causing near iunstant death. It is good to know that even in the CAFOs the animals are slaughtered with respect.