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Factory Farming and Its Effects on the Environment
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- Over 10 billion animals a year are raised for dairy, meat, and eggs each year.
-By 2050, meat and milk will double in production since developing countries are becoming more involved.
- Methane emissions from pigs and cows have more than doubled between the years of 1990 to 2009.
- Factory farms contribute to more than 90 million tons of CO2 annually through their use of fossil fuels.
-More effects will be listed when we talk about the pros & cons
What separates factory farming from family owned farming?
- Excessive use of antibiotics
- Barn areas are crowded
- Excessive hormones are given to the livestock
- Illness rates are higher in the animals
- Rapid production and distribution
- Mission is to use animals for their natural products
- Factory farmings methods are geared toward making use of economies to produce the highest output at the lowest cost.
Purpose:
Factory Farming
The goal of factory farming is to mass produce
livestock and harvest them for meat, eggs, and milk for human consumption. It attempts to avoid high payments and rather focuses on producing their products efficiently, meaning low pricing and high production rates. With our economy requiring quicker means to products, technology is constantly advancing in the farming industry which was originally a slow and steady process.
by Josie King, David White, and Dylan Hamill
Effects on our environment
What is it?
Factory farming is the industrial aspect of farming. It is when mass amounts of cattle are condense into modern farms and raised as livestock for the sole purpose of business.
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Why is factory farming
such a big deal? Allow Philip Lymbery , CEO
of Compassion In World Farming,
to explain why.
What are some pros and cons of factory farming? Should it be legal or illegal?
Pros:
Cons
- The amount of water wasted
- The large amount of land used (every second of every day one football field of rainforest is being cut down and destroyed. Most of this forestland is being cut down to farm and used to raise livestock, which then is exported around the world to many fast food restaurants)
- Effects of the animals waste (water,air, global warming)
- Deforestation
- Loss of habitat
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