The majority of Americans are either purchasing their dinner from a grocery store, delivery service, fast food restaurant, or a fancy restaurant. So what is the majority of Americans having for dinner? They are eating animals by the billions: chicken, beef, and pork to be precise. Factory farms are the primary source producing the majority of this meat. These factory farms unethically produce meat at low prices, which leads Americans to consume animals at alarming rates. The U.S. government must slowly shift from subsidizing factory farms that produce unethical low cost meat to higher priced organic farms certified with the United States Department of Agriculture’s organic seal of approval. This will reduce meat consumption, damage to the
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policy can support a more ethical way to consume meat. The organic meat industry will naturally reduce meat consumption and provide farming methods that are critical to meat quality, treatment of animals, and environmental sustainability. The sustainable organic food movement started small; but today, if you look around at your local supermarkets, or even some fast food restaurants, change is taking place. Merchants are recognizing that more and more consumers are asking themselves ethical questions about food, and consumers are holding themselves more accountable for how their money is supporting the food and farming industry. If more Americans purchased meat stamped USDA organically raised, they would be supporting farmers that ethically and consciously think about how their farming process affects air, water, soil, animals, animal consumption, and genetically modified ingredients. This evolution in America’s consumption of organic meat would reshape the economic and political landscape currently favoring factory farming industry. Once the U.S. government has enough confidence in the organic farming market, they can begin shifting already approved subsidies away from the factory farming process. The final blow to factory farming will come with heightened increase pressures with methodical regulations to factory farming. These changes would involve the Judicial Department, Congress, State Legislature, and federal regulatory bodies like the USDA, FDA, and
policy can support a more ethical way to consume meat. The organic meat industry will naturally reduce meat consumption and provide farming methods that are critical to meat quality, treatment of animals, and environmental sustainability. The sustainable organic food movement started small; but today, if you look around at your local supermarkets, or even some fast food restaurants, change is taking place. Merchants are recognizing that more and more consumers are asking themselves ethical questions about food, and consumers are holding themselves more accountable for how their money is supporting the food and farming industry. If more Americans purchased meat stamped USDA organically raised, they would be supporting farmers that ethically and consciously think about how their farming process affects air, water, soil, animals, animal consumption, and genetically modified ingredients. This evolution in America’s consumption of organic meat would reshape the economic and political landscape currently favoring factory farming industry. Once the U.S. government has enough confidence in the organic farming market, they can begin shifting already approved subsidies away from the factory farming process. The final blow to factory farming will come with heightened increase pressures with methodical regulations to factory farming. These changes would involve the Judicial Department, Congress, State Legislature, and federal regulatory bodies like the USDA, FDA, and