Depends on the farm, yes there are bad farms and good farms. There are good "factory" farms and bad ones. There are also really bad "small time" farms that people assume are more humane. Often the most humane treatment is in a larger farm because they have the money for good husbandry. Yes milk prices in the US suck, not because the milk price is low, but because so much of it goes to the driver of the truck, the processor and advertising. Farmers get very little out of a 4$/gallon jug of milk. However, the people that are in business are beginning to realize that better husbandry leads to better production. They are just trying to balance cost with gain, because let's face it, they are in business to make money. Aren't we all? Anyone that has a job, is working for money. Why? Because that is what we need to live comfortably. Feedlot operators do the very best they can with what they have, considering the amount of people they need to feed, and people like Temple Grandin are doing everything they can to make the processes as humane as possible. If people hate factory farms, then they can choose to buy local products or eat vegetarian/vegan, that is their choice. But choosing to eat vegetarian/vegan is not going to make the lives of factory farm animals better. There needs to be a dialogue among Americans, about what we feel is acceptable, and we need to be prepared to pay more to get it, whether we are buying at a farmers market at 20$/pound or the prices on the shelves at the supermarkets go up.