o far animal cruelty has been discussed as well as how these factory farms are affecting us. These factory farms are also causing a problem in our environment. Pollution. Waste runoff pollutes the water, land and air in communities. “When manure is applied too frequently or in too large a quantity to an area, nutrients overwhelm the absorptive capacity of the soil, and either run off or are leached into the groundwater,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated in a publication about large-scale livestock operations. “Storage units can break or become faulty, or rainwater can cause holding lagoons to overflow. While CAFOs are required to have permits that limit the levels of manure discharge, handling the large amounts
