Cattle feeding

Many of the largest environmental concerns facing our society today stem from the world’s obsession with red meat. Grazing cattle are a major cause of erosion, land degradation, and even, according to most scientists, climate change (Steinfield 2006). The production of livestock is, without question, the most anthropogenic (environmental pollution originating in human activity) enterprise that humans engage in. It accounts for the use of 70 percent of agricultural land and 30 percent of the…

We all love eating little bugs, girls make-up, and house paint don't we? Oh wait, that sounds dangerous and disgusting. well let's put all those together in a hamburger shape, put two buns on it and call it a big mac. Still wouldn't eat it? Well this is exactly what McDonald's does and you eat it every day! This fast food is so unhealthy that it is making us sick, and even slowly killing us, and the fast food industry doesn't even care. All the fast food industry cares about is money and they…

"Have patience",exclaims dad every day we work on the farm. Some days on the farm are easy like just feeding cows. Other days are long and hard like pulling a calf at midnight or having to fix something when you need it the most. But every day on the farm is fun and relaxing. I don't like fixing something in the middle of summer on the one hundred and ten degree days. We got a call from the fence builder and the red angus and gelbvieh cross cows at the Frazer Farm did not have any water. So dad…

Most farmers cut costs by only feeding them small proportions and are put in very small cages not providing bedding. They also give the animals drugs for the meat-eating consumers. The animals do not have normal social contact. The animals that are in farms are sometimes part of cruelty…

will be to understand and evaluate animal welfares need on dairy farms and the impact it has on a farm production. This article is peer-reviewed. Canada. National Farm Animal Care Council. (2009). Code of Practice. For the Care and Handling of Dairy Cattle. Retrieved from http://www.nfacc.ca/pdfs/codes/dairy_code_of_practice.pdf The National Farm Animal Care Council…

Farms in America or in general are always portrayed as a large piece of land in the countryside having a house with a red barn with some animals from pigs, cows, goats, horses, fruits and vegetables they grow to sell or to use for themselves. The type of farms seen in movies or books like Charlotte’s Web and Babe. In reality these family farms depicted in our thoughts aren’t the real deal as seen in King Corn. Farms are massive in size and productivity and is seen as a huge operation of…

THE LIFE OF A MAASAI WOMAN When visiting Maasailand, one cannot miss the sight of a woman either at work, tending animals, carrying a baby while breast feeding, fetching fuel wood from the surrounding thicket, carrying water containers, or building and repairing a manyatta. The life of a Maasai woman is one of hardship and repression. Most of her struggles are shaped by circumstances and the challenges of her time including their deep patriarchal attitude that destines women to live a life of…

purpose of keeping all 7 billion of us fed. A vast majority of that land, about 30% of the world’s ice-free surface, is used not to grow fruits, vegetables and grains that would be directly fed to human beings, but rather to fuel the pigs, chickens and cattle that we eventually…

The Great Depression was a long ten year struggle for America. Times were rough from the New York City streets to the Great Plains. Banks began to close on an everyday basis. In Donald Worsters book "Dust Bowl" he writes about the Great Plains and how the people have struggled through out "the dirty thirties". In Chapter 9 "Unsettled Ground" George Taton Believes that if people would have just gave up trying to plant seed in dust that mother nature would have fixed the Plains in half the time it…

poultry, pigs, and cattle are raised to supply the demand for processed meats when writing his novel “Eating Animals.” Foer’s argument…