Water is not only used to raise animals; it is also used to capture and dispose of their waste. This brings other consequences and dangers. The animal waste is kept in large storage facilities that are unreliable and often leak into the water supply that supplies drinkable water to people. Livestock produce 130 times the amount of waste of humans, which is 87000 pounds of waste per second from livestock alone. The EPA has reported many spills from factory farms. Over 35,000 miles of rivers in twenty-two states have been polluted from these spills. These spills are often toxic and dangerous. Many viruses such as Campylobacter spp, Escherichia Coli, Salmonella spp, Clostridium botulinum, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum, Microspordia
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Although these consequences approach slowly, their arrival is certain. Global warming is a very real threat that will cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes, or even their lives. Since temperature has never risen this exponentially before, it is difficult to understand the consequences of what will come of this rapid increase. Water depletion and pollution is a pressing issue that requires immediate attention. With only 0.4 percent of water available for human use, and fifty-five percent of that water is used for animal agriculture. Even more of that water is polluted with waste from excrement and riddled with disease and impurity. Considering the problem that is the ruptures in the nitrogen cycle. This will cause groundwater pollution, loss of habitat and biodiversity, and an increase in harmful algal blooms, eutrophication, hypoxia, and fish kills. Factory farming is a threat to the environment. It contributes more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels for energy; it uses more water than fracking. It also skews with the Earth’s natural balances by adding excess nutrients, such as nitrogen, to the cycles. Factory farming is the unnecessary disruptions of the planet in name of consumption. Factory farming creates superfluous consumption that could be eliminated at a basic, everyday
Although these consequences approach slowly, their arrival is certain. Global warming is a very real threat that will cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes, or even their lives. Since temperature has never risen this exponentially before, it is difficult to understand the consequences of what will come of this rapid increase. Water depletion and pollution is a pressing issue that requires immediate attention. With only 0.4 percent of water available for human use, and fifty-five percent of that water is used for animal agriculture. Even more of that water is polluted with waste from excrement and riddled with disease and impurity. Considering the problem that is the ruptures in the nitrogen cycle. This will cause groundwater pollution, loss of habitat and biodiversity, and an increase in harmful algal blooms, eutrophication, hypoxia, and fish kills. Factory farming is a threat to the environment. It contributes more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels for energy; it uses more water than fracking. It also skews with the Earth’s natural balances by adding excess nutrients, such as nitrogen, to the cycles. Factory farming is the unnecessary disruptions of the planet in name of consumption. Factory farming creates superfluous consumption that could be eliminated at a basic, everyday