Concentrated Animal Farm Research Paper

What is a CAFO? Well that’s a simple question really; it’s short for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. It is the act of keeping animals in a confined area so that there is no risk of escaping and how “farmers” can maximize their land without having to pay more money. With the treatment of these animals so poorly, farmers are able to saved money and sell big with the small amounts of care given to the livestock . The animals are only able to get food from the handlers and can’t go out of their pens by themselves, this means they see no sunlight. This is not morally right because the animals can’t gain independence and therefore aren’t able to care for themselves how they would naturally in the wild. They have to stay in that pen for 45 out of 365 days. Some …show more content…
This is a problem for public health. According to the Sierra Club, "Stormwater that mixes with manure wastes, silage leachate, or milk house wastes can flow into drains. Pipes or hoses carrying wastes can break or become unattached. Waste storage structures can overflow or burst." The water damage can cause thousands, causing the water storage plants and facilities are halted to fix these repairs, causing droughts and public health concerns. Another growing issue is that the rivers and streams surrounding the CAFO's are receiving too much nutrients in the water making it so that the fish die from the "low levels of dissolved oxygen" according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. One way to fix this problem is to create troughs around the pans lined with metal, all that lead to a large bin where the water can be filtered and processed. This solution would make it so that the animals manure does not pollute the water supply of the surrounding community, and stop the over powering nutrients in the streams and rivers