Canada is one of the largest agriculture producers and exporters in the world. Thus, it is obvious that if anything impacts Canadian agriculture, it will either hurt or improve anyone connected to it globally. Not everyone realizes how important agriculture is. People should understand that even the smallest change in agriculture effects everyone in the country. Even though it doesn’t affect people directly, it definitely does indirectly. One of the main issues on the rise is with climate change. As most know, climate change has been increasing in the past years and is continuing to increase. Some might find this unrelated to agriculture, however, the various climate changes occurring has an overall very negative impact on the Canadian agriculture.
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However, what happens when the immune system cannot fight any longer? One of the reason’s that is a cause of this is because of heat stress upon animals, which climate change can increase the risk. Most animals cannot handle temperatures over 23 degrees (Silanikove 2000). To further explain this, because heat stress lowers the immune systems ability to fight against anything, it makes animals, which are constantly producing, more vulnerable to diseases (Silanikove 2000). However, this is just one of the many diseases that can be exposed to animals. Thus, because of the climate changing and temperatures increasing, animals are exposed to more diseases and eventually produce less causing the Canadian agriculture to incur a negative impact. To continue how climate change effects agriculture, which causes an increase of exposed diseases, another issue that has aroused is the insect-borne diseases and the migration from the US (The Brock News, 2014). This issue is very serious, as it will impact Canadian agriculture negatively no matter what. The migration of new insects will bring more diseases and make it even more difficult to produce. For example, Blue tongue virus is a serious threat to the livestock industry in the US (The Brock News, 2014). Therefore, with many new diseases on the rise because of climate changing and temperatures increasing, all this can lead to a major decline in production and possibly death to animals and, indirectly, increase chances of diseases exposed to humans as well (Organic Agriculture of Canada 2014) These are the reason as to why climate changing causes a negative impact on Canadian
However, what happens when the immune system cannot fight any longer? One of the reason’s that is a cause of this is because of heat stress upon animals, which climate change can increase the risk. Most animals cannot handle temperatures over 23 degrees (Silanikove 2000). To further explain this, because heat stress lowers the immune systems ability to fight against anything, it makes animals, which are constantly producing, more vulnerable to diseases (Silanikove 2000). However, this is just one of the many diseases that can be exposed to animals. Thus, because of the climate changing and temperatures increasing, animals are exposed to more diseases and eventually produce less causing the Canadian agriculture to incur a negative impact. To continue how climate change effects agriculture, which causes an increase of exposed diseases, another issue that has aroused is the insect-borne diseases and the migration from the US (The Brock News, 2014). This issue is very serious, as it will impact Canadian agriculture negatively no matter what. The migration of new insects will bring more diseases and make it even more difficult to produce. For example, Blue tongue virus is a serious threat to the livestock industry in the US (The Brock News, 2014). Therefore, with many new diseases on the rise because of climate changing and temperatures increasing, all this can lead to a major decline in production and possibly death to animals and, indirectly, increase chances of diseases exposed to humans as well (Organic Agriculture of Canada 2014) These are the reason as to why climate changing causes a negative impact on Canadian