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http://www.gracelinks.org/265/environment
Picture: Shows how the industral farms do not care about the land or the enviornment.
Summary:
In this article i found it explains what a normal family owned farm is like. It says that they use normal methods to get the desired crop, they then tend and take care of the farm to make sure it is health. But with a factory or industrial farm they do not have a balance with the crops. They dont rotate the crops. they dont even let the soil regrow to become healthier. there are not as many rules as a family farm. The area is not taken care of as well, and with a factory farm they do not care for the land. Also in the article it talks about the animals and how safe it is for them. Each day they get antibiotics to be kept healthy. But this could end up in what we eat for our meals and could possibly hurt us.
Opinion:
After reading i was a little shocked with what happens o the factory farms. I really don tlike they way they treat the land. It is amazing to me what goes on in the farms and i dont like it. Personaly i would not eat food from the factory farms, but we do need them for our food supply. I think they should have to rotate the crops and have to let the land sit to become healthier.
Questions:
1) Do you feel safe eating food from factory farms?
2) Should there be limitations to what the factory farms can do to the land?
3) Should we have more family owned farms that do not pollute as much instead or of the factory farms?
4) Do you agree with what factory farms do to the animals and the crops?
Questions:
ReplyDelete1) Do you feel safe eating food from factory farms?
-In a way i don't feel safe. After learning about the ways factory farms deal with plants and animals, it is hard to eat them. But without this then we have limited food. this is a hard decision but for now, we should try to take action by making more laws about how to run a factory farm.
2) Should there be limitations to what the factory farms can do to the land?
-There should be. If we did not have limitations then factory farmers can do whatever they want to their land and the government cannot get involved and say that they cannot do that.
3) Should we have more family owned farms that do not pollute as much instead or of the factory farms?
-I say we keep factory farms but change the way they use their chemicals on animals/plants. They should cut back on the GMOs and plant like a family farm but it would be in a factory.
4) Do you agree with what factory farms do to the animals and the crops?
-I do not. It is wrong to make them bigger then they have to be. We should just let them grow naturally and use what we got. If we change animals/ plants to be to our likes, then the environment will change dramastically in the future.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Alan and I am a high school student in Pennsylvania! A friend of mine posted into a blog about factory farming, and I was wondering if you could please comment on it and tell us more about what happens at factory farms and how poorly animals are treated there. Thank you!
http://fivepeoplethatdonthaveaname.blogspot.com/2012/12/factory-farming-and-envionment-by-no.html
~Alan
I invited someone from the IDA (In Defense of Animals)! I think that they would be a good source of more information because they know what factory farms are doing to animals. If they comment then they can also tell us how we can control what other things are being done to keep the animals safe. This is why i think that they would be a great source!
Hello everyone!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Christy Griffin. I am a Special Projects Officer at In Defense of Animals. While touted by agricultural corporations as efficient and cheap food production, modern factory farms are actually institutions of systematic animal abuse, breeding grounds for disease, and a major threat to the environment.
A United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report revealed that animal agriculture causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation combined. It takes eight times as much fossil fuel to produce animal protein as it does to produce plant protein. It takes less water to produce one year’s worth of food for a completely plant-based diet than to produce one month’s worth of food for a diet with animal products. Additionally, the millions of tons of waste produced by these massive farm animal populations pollutes our lakes, rivers and groundwater. Animal agriculture destroys thousands of acres of forests that help purify the air and reduce carbon dioxide. It is estimated that one acre of trees is preserved each year by every individual who switches to a completely plant-based diet.
We need much stricter regulations on factory farms not only for environmental reasons, but for animal welfare as well. Factory farms are filled with unimaginable cruelty. Cages and crates packed with closely-confined animals lead to a lifetime of misery, denying animals the most basic natural experiences like normal movement, foraging and nesting behaviors, even sunlight and fresh air. Animals are often driven insane by the intense confinement, and engage in self-mutilation and cannibalism. Painful procedures like de-horning, de-beaking, tail-docking and castration are performed without anesthesia. Diseased animals, too sick and weak to walk, are dragged or hauled to slaughter and end up on our plates.
Plant-based diets—including vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes—offer an abundant, diverse selection of nutrient-rich foods to choose from, are high in fiber, phytochemicals and antioxidants, have no cholesterol and almost no saturated fat. According to numerous studies, plant-based diets have been shown to lower the risk of many diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Veganism is about celebrating life by taking care of our health and the health of our planet, and protecting the lives of the animals that share our world. Make the commitment. Go Vegan. Please contact me for a free vegan starter kit at chrisy@idausa.org. For more information, please visit idausa.org.
I found a great video that is an award winner. It is about factory farms with pigs and what it really is like. It shows how the animals are treated and what their living environment is like every day. It is such a controversial topic because a good amount of people in the world do not care about animals and just want food. But what they do not realize is that the food they are eating is so badly made that it may become unhealthy to eat these foods. It is sad to think about, especially after watching this video.
ReplyDeleteHere it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vqIGTKuQE
Even though factory farming produces a lot of food i dont think that it is a healthy way to get food. It is not good for the land either.
ReplyDelete1. What other way could we get food at the same rate of factory farming without the same consequences of factory farming?
2. Should factory farming be regulated more closely? Why?
3. What regulations could be out in place to help reduce the amount of negative consequences of factory farming?