Introduction As a group, when thinking about a problem or issue to propose, we found staying local and identifying an issue within the state of Florida would best suit our group. We decided to explore the side of livestock farming within agriculture, due to the controversies attached to the practice. Not only in Florida but on a national level as well. Statistics state that there are about more than 20,000 factory farms in the United States. Livestock farming is a major contributor to Florida and has become in recent years, one of many controversies in agriculture. One of the major problems that arose in the U.S is the certain types of treatment on agricultural animals in factory farms; which leads to both negative yet positive effects.
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Operations held in factory farms are actually among one of the most toxic and polluting enterprises in existence. It involves air pollution, soil pollution, and not to mention, water pollution. Raising large amounts of animals in one place, confined with unsanitary conditions creates an extreme amount of waste that in turn pollutes our environment. In the U.S alone, animals that are raised on factory farms generate more than one million tons of manure per day. That 's three times the amount generated by the country’s human population. In factory farms, the animal waste is usually stored in huge, open-air lagoons which are often the size of football fields. Not one, but several; and they 're prone to leaks and spills. Not only that, but to prevent the spread of disease, factory farmers give the agricultural animals antibiotics; and about 75% of it is left indigested in their urine and manure. Therefore, it leads to another complication that may contaminate crops and …show more content…
Factory farms are one of the main enterprises that dump waste manure on to our soil, and with the vast quantities of it, there tends to be an over-application of it which brings about several problems. One of them is that manure in factory farms are full of heavy metals, because the animals do not digest everything that is in their feed. Heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, copper and zinc are put into animal feed to make the animals grow faster; and since the heavy metals are never removed from the animal waste, it goes into our environment. Now that 's where the problem really reveals itself. Heavy metals are almost impossible to get rid of because they do not decompose; and once that happens, plants won 't be able to grow there and the soil that is damaged is
Operations held in factory farms are actually among one of the most toxic and polluting enterprises in existence. It involves air pollution, soil pollution, and not to mention, water pollution. Raising large amounts of animals in one place, confined with unsanitary conditions creates an extreme amount of waste that in turn pollutes our environment. In the U.S alone, animals that are raised on factory farms generate more than one million tons of manure per day. That 's three times the amount generated by the country’s human population. In factory farms, the animal waste is usually stored in huge, open-air lagoons which are often the size of football fields. Not one, but several; and they 're prone to leaks and spills. Not only that, but to prevent the spread of disease, factory farmers give the agricultural animals antibiotics; and about 75% of it is left indigested in their urine and manure. Therefore, it leads to another complication that may contaminate crops and …show more content…
Factory farms are one of the main enterprises that dump waste manure on to our soil, and with the vast quantities of it, there tends to be an over-application of it which brings about several problems. One of them is that manure in factory farms are full of heavy metals, because the animals do not digest everything that is in their feed. Heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, copper and zinc are put into animal feed to make the animals grow faster; and since the heavy metals are never removed from the animal waste, it goes into our environment. Now that 's where the problem really reveals itself. Heavy metals are almost impossible to get rid of because they do not decompose; and once that happens, plants won 't be able to grow there and the soil that is damaged is