A healthier cattle will yield more nutritious meat. Grass farming, when properly managed, can benefit the environment. Animals on a pasture require less fossil fuel compared to a feedlot diet and grazing animals naturally do their own fertilizing and harvesting. Grazed pastures help remove carbon dioxide and helps slowing global warming. With factory farms, the animals are crowded into sheds and their food is shipped from distant fields. The crops from those fields are treated with fossil-fuel based fertilizers that contain pesticides and require non-renewable fuel to harvest. The benefits of grass-fed meat greatly outweighs grain-fed meat and as a society we need to start taking better care of health and our …show more content…
Exposure to mold can cause up to 40 different symptoms that degrade our natural state of performance. Sudden mold exposure can cause your eyes to twitch, severe sinus and ear infections, brain fog, tired, anxious, and feeling hung over. Mold exposure and sensitivity is quite difficult to diagnose due to how broad the symptoms are that often lead to a misdiagnoses which cause more harm. The United States has extremely poor mycotoxin regulation. Poor factory farming practices, changes in soil by pesticides, changes in agriculture all affect and contribute to mold. Mycotoxins such as aflatoxin are especially dangerous to our biology. Aflatoxin is a species of mold that is “carcinogenic to humans and can be found in common food items like peanuts, peanut butter, corn, nuts, figs, grains, milk and cheese” (Axe, Josh). Dr. Axe lists many symptoms of aflatoxin can cause: food allergies, autoimmunity disease, inflammation, damage digestive organs, and increase risk for liver cancer, growth impairment, vomiting, abdominal pain, water retention, coma, and death. Mycotoxins cause DNA damage and can lead to cancer.
There are many reasons to consider pastured-raised animals over factory farmed animals. There are many videos and pictures online that showcase extreme animal cruelty that include; physical alterations, overcrowding, poor air quality and unnatural