Over nine billion animals are slaughtered, every year in the United States. That is an enormous amount of animals being slaughtered simply for human consumption. Slaughtering animals at this rate comes with consequences, such as placing a strain on natural resources. Water, land, and fossil fuel are used at alarming rates in order to produce this amount of meat ("Factory Farming and the Environment”). For the small amount of product factory farms produce they produce a staggering amount of waste and greenhouse gases. This waste highly contributes to the pollution of our land, air, and sea ("Factory Farming and the Environment”).
