How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming Over the past few decades, global warming has been one of the biggest problems. Fundamentally, it is a fact that there are a number of causes in connection to global warming, and factory farming is one of them. A factory is an industrial site or group of buildings where products are made, normally consisting of machine and a large number of workers, and factory farming is a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost (Merriam Webster, n.d.). This is a difference between factory and factory farming. In the process of factory farming, it is responsible for the abuse of land, animal and natural environment, including
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The forest provides not only timber and fuel but also beneficial medicinal herb and other vegetations. Furthermore, the forests can be resting areas to people, and it plays an important role in generating the oxygen, as well as reducing an impact of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Nonetheless, according to Live Science, the main causes of cutting off forests are “[F]or making more land available for housing and create room for cattle ranching” (Bradford. A, 2015). Consequently, deforestation caused by factory farming releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere to increase the rate of global warming by 50 percent (Good. K, 2014). Moreover, factory farming has a negative effect on lakes and rivers because of …show more content…
d.). In addition, another reason for water pollution can be excrement about animal waste that seeps through the soil into nearby groundwater. According to Food Is Power, “[T]hroughout the U.S., animal excrement from factory farms has contaminated groundwater in 17 states and polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states” (Food Is Power, n. d.). Consequently, synthetic fertilizers and animal waste which are used in a factory farm have a negative effect on protection of the environment and drinking water that people
The forest provides not only timber and fuel but also beneficial medicinal herb and other vegetations. Furthermore, the forests can be resting areas to people, and it plays an important role in generating the oxygen, as well as reducing an impact of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Nonetheless, according to Live Science, the main causes of cutting off forests are “[F]or making more land available for housing and create room for cattle ranching” (Bradford. A, 2015). Consequently, deforestation caused by factory farming releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere to increase the rate of global warming by 50 percent (Good. K, 2014). Moreover, factory farming has a negative effect on lakes and rivers because of …show more content…
d.). In addition, another reason for water pollution can be excrement about animal waste that seeps through the soil into nearby groundwater. According to Food Is Power, “[T]hroughout the U.S., animal excrement from factory farms has contaminated groundwater in 17 states and polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states” (Food Is Power, n. d.). Consequently, synthetic fertilizers and animal waste which are used in a factory farm have a negative effect on protection of the environment and drinking water that people