Dairy farming

Walking into the supermarket there is a variety of choices. Those choices presented include organic food and regular or GMO food. Budgeted consumers typically choose the least expensive products, while ‘health conscious’ consumers lean towards organic products. After writing a rhetorical analysis on the film Fed Up, there were questions that came to mind. One in particular was: What are the differences between GMO foods versus organic foods and why do health conscious shoppers steer clear of…

What is a CAFO? Well that’s a simple question really; it’s short for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. It is the act of keeping animals in a confined area so that there is no risk of escaping and how “farmers” can maximize their land without having to pay more money. With the treatment of these animals so poorly, farmers are able to saved money and sell big with the small amounts of care given to the livestock . The animals are only able to get food from the handlers and can’t go out of…

Factory farming is not extremely beneficial, but society needs industrial farms. While factory farming now controls a majority of the market, it was not always this way. On the contrary, individual farmers once supplied the United States with food instead of Massive company farms. However, even though small farms still comprise a majority of all farms, they retain very little control of the agricultural market. In general, large farms tend to rapidly produce meat. Consequentially, this results…

What are the costs to society associated with the pro and con positions? In the society level the costs that associated with pro is insured increasing their health life style, both on the quality of their meats or in their environmental surrounded. Furthermore, CAFOs have threat on the small family farmers that feed their animals on real grass by increasing the cost of their production and lowering their sales. In the society level the costs that associated with con is losing a lot of jobs…

I did enjoy the article “What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong” because of the topic. I felt like this topic either people enjoy because they have a agriculture background or they do not enjoy because they do not ever deal with agriculture. Even though I believe agriculture is important to everyone's daily life, not everyone thinks that they or care. In this article I thought that they had a well thought out plan of the article and it was structured absolutely well. I liked how the author used questions…

Isolation and Antibiotic Resistance Testing of Delftia acidovorans from Organic Lettuce Pa Kou Thor Introduction Organic foods continue to be a health choice trend for many United States Americans as they are seen as the healthiest, natural and raw choice of food. However, there has been a growing concern of having antibiotic resistance bacteria existing on fresh organic produce. This combats the long-term thought that organic food, being free of chemicals and antibiotics, would not have…

Monoculture is prevalent in the United States’ industrial agriculture to sustain an efficient amount of singular crops, unfortunately, this agricultural practice degrades the soil by depleting the nutrients, increases dependency on chemical fertilizers, and lacks diversity which contributes to the spread of diseases. Monocropping should not be practiced for the sake of the environment and the potential health risk it proposes to humans. Furthermore, the short-term results do not outweigh the…

According to the online Salem Press Encyclopedia, roughly 10 billion animals are slaughtered each year. These animals are killed cruelly by the billions in places know as factory farms solely for the purpose of consuming them. These places have become a highly controversial topic because of the methods they use when it concerns the caretaking of the animals and because of the effects their products have on certain aspects of society. The number of factory farms should be reduced because the…

How Your Meat Causes Worldwide Pollution The factory farming industry plays a major role in contributing to the problem of global climate change. This particular issue does not get addressed nearly as much as it should because many of these corporations generate billions of dollars, which has resulted into agribusiness instead of traditional farming. As other countries generally follow the lead of the United States pertaining to legislation and trade policy they watch how we approach the issue…

The wonder drug is what they called it, a drug that would save many lives and save humanity itself. Finally people wouldn’t need to die from simple cuts, ear infections or even more complex illnesses like tuberculosis caused by bacteria. They could be well, walk again and be with their families. What a truly joyous day for everyone on September 3rd 1928 when Professor Alexander Fleming stumbled upon the drug he called penicillin on accident in his laboratory. This drug penicillin could actually…