Conclusion Of Organic Farming

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In today 's society the word organic have stretched. Organic farms used to simply mean farmers selling their food to the local. The farms were small and private, there was interaction between the consumers and the farmer. The consumers were able to know more about the farmer and how they grew their food. Since the term organic was what increased more sales in the food industry, they started focusing more on the organic label to increase money in the industry. Industrial organic is large farms or corporations that rely on monoculture to focus on growing organic food. Since they are corporations and the food is given out to supermarkets to sell there is no communication between consumers and farmers, consumers do not know where their food is …show more content…
To consumers, it 's scary how industrial farming can use methods such as growth hormones to get a cow to grow quick and big because a cow cannot grow at a fast pace without drugs. In order for the meat to be organic the consumers want the cow to be raised naturally as possible meaning growth hormones are definitely not natural and not acceptable. If farmers want to sell organic meat, cows should be fed regular food without any growth hormones to get them to grow. Never will a cow in nature be given growth hormones, only a human would be able to give cows growth hormones. Using drugs to grow cows to the desired size in a matter of time cost farmers less time and money, they make quicker money off of selling fast and cheaper meat. When consumers look for organic meat they are showing that they don’t support growth hormones they are into meat that was raised naturally, growth hormones are a selfish …show more content…
Consumers buy organic meat because they do not support industrial agriculture. In industrial farms, farmers care more about quantity than quality because having more livestock is more money to them. If it was about quality then livestock should be living in a free range environment but instead, it’s about quantity so livestock animals are packed and they are forced to live in small confined areas or even caged. Consumers look for the organic label because that means they support animals that were raised free range and cage free. They want the food they are going to eat coming from an animal that had access to outdoors to walk around or see sunlight. By buying organic, consumers show the food industry that they are against the act of having animals raised under stressful and inhumane conditions to become meat. It’s cruel and bad to keep animals in small confined spaces or trapped in cages because they can get ill or catch a disease more easily. They want to know that the meat they are eating is coming from a happy animal, not one that went through a cruel process to be food on the consumers plate. Today’s food industry have changed a lot, everything is becoming industrialized. Now the demand for meat is high so the food industry is focusing on having corporations raise a large amount of livestock worrying about quantity over quality. It doesn’t matter about the conditions of the livestock as

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