Feedlot

The author creates an appalling and depressing tone by describing the living conditions of the cattles in the meatpacking industries. Cattles are “packed into feedlots” and “live amid pools of manure”. The United States government is uninterested in ordering companies to remove contaminated foods because of the political power meatpacking firms have. Industries have become far worse than the meat packers mentioned…

moving into a system where cultivating polyculture crops are more common. During his argument, Pollan points out to the huge monocultures of the midwestern, the fencerow-to-fencerow planting policies of Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, the reeking feedlots, and the chemical fertilizer industry, Earl Butz, all as disastrous pieces of our quantity-over-quality, and cheap calories. Unsurprisingly, the way we eat and grow food is very connected to how healthy we are, which is why I believe Pollan…

In the article “Escape form the Western Diet” Michael Pollan talks about how the Western diet is unavoidable, yet, he says people can escape it. In the article, Pollan talks about the health problems it causes. There’s also the food industry and their ways of selling their products. Then the main theory throughout the article Nutritionism. Nevertheless, a problem that Pollan has, is that the products that the industries makes are bad for our health and people still consume the merchandise. The…

replaced by corn and soybeans. Hands were replaced with complicated machines, time was replaced with fertilizers and varied crops by pesticides. Soil and worms were degraded to dust. Cows grazing in open pasture were replaced by concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). Farm houses and barns were abandoned, burned to the ground, and plowed over for larger soy fields. Corn began to be traded for profit as high-fructose corn syrup and ethanol. Culture was replaced by business. Land…

bleak and horrendous. The cattle endure a great deal of suffering from their harsh living, transporting, and slaughtering conditions. Once calves are considered matured, at approximately seven months old, they are transported from grazing farms to ‘”feedlots”, where the calves are confined and fattened up on an unnatural corn diet. Typically within six months of their corn diet, the cattle have reached prime market weight of 544 kilograms and are shipped off to the slaughterhouse. During their…

In the same way that humans catch diseases fish can too. Some diseases in this instance comparable to the black plague have had a terrible effect on the salmon population in specific regions. One of the most infamous diseases, the Ulcerative Dermal Necrosis, which is one that effected almost all the salmon in Scotland in the late 1970’s. In attempts to remove the parasite that was killing the fish, Scotland succumbed to loosing all the salmon in nearly over 20 Norwegian rivers. “The parasite,…

Wendell Berry, an American author, poses the question: “Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? The answer is always: Love. They must do it for love. Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work…

As water (surface runoff) resulting from the storm or precipitation or snowmelt runs over the land surface, it will pick up potential pollutants include pathogenic organisms as it runs over livestock excrement from barnyards, pastures, rangelands, feedlots. Furthermore, the discharge from the areas of land application of sewage sludge deposit or effluents discharge from wastewater into freshwater and the seepage of the human waste from a septic tanks. Some of the runoff will infiltrate into 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…

song is “Rocky mountain high”. The state color is gold, red, blue, and white (Av2books). Cattle and calves are the driving force in Colorado's agricultural marketplace and make the state a top-ten livestock producer. Beef cattle are fattened in feedlots, mostly around Greeley, where they are fed grains and other feed of high food value. Colorado farmers also…