Feedlot

is a sea lice, who don’t naturally carry lice. Sea lice aren’t the only problem but now we can see that they are picking up things from the farms and that they are possibly picking up other things as well. As seen in the graph below as soon as the feedlots were placed on the salmon migration route salmon began to…

providing sufficient water and food sources. Santa Gertrudis do not have specific wintering or breeding habitats; in most cases, cattle are raised on a ranch, where they will spend much of there lives before being sold either to another ranch or a feedlot operation. Habitat needs of Santa Gertrudis are pretty basic, revolving mainly around food and shelter. Cattle consume as much as 20 gallons of water a day, so either a natural or artificial means of…

Starting A Grass-fed Beef Cattle Ranch Starting a grass-fed beef ranch may appear to be a daunting task, but by picking the right land, keeping the herd healthy, and staying on top of the financials, this daunting task can become the first step in a self-sustaining living environment. For the most part, self-sustaining lifestyles have fallen to the side. With the conveniences of super markets and mass production farming, the thought of producing meat for oneself may seem inconvenient, but the…

Eric Schlosser’s novel Fast Food Nation was published on January 17, 2001 (a second edition was later published in 2002) in New York, USA. The novel has 252 pages and continues to page 383 to provide the reader with an epilogue, photo credits, notes, bibliography, acknowledgements, and an index. The novel follows the fast food epidemic from its beginning in the 1950s to its current and future impact on America and the rest of the world. The first section of the novel, “The American Way”,…

We encounter it every day in supermarkets, in fast food restaurants, and even in movie theaters. Factory farming is a major agricultural crisis brewing for the last twenty or more years, but today consumers have options to help stop it. While the food industry profits from animal cruelty and massive pollution, ordinary farmers are sunk further into debt. The livestock are loaded with chemicals and antibiotics, thus making it unhealthy for humans to eat. Finally, the food industry is defiantly…

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…

Oyindamola (Dee) Adedipe `Individual Reponses: Cow Discussion Our team’s discussion post focused on the benefits and risks associated with the addition of antibiotics and genetically modified E. coli to cattle feed the for the cow and its microbiome. Many of the benefits included in the posts pertained to the use of antibiotics to help improve the overall health of the cow. Antibiotics are administered to cows to help foster growth and prevent the occurrence of a disease (McEachran et. al.,…

Is Veganism Necessary? Although studies on a vegetarian diet had not existed until the 1800’s, veganism dates back all the way to fourth century B.C.E. Veganism refers to the non-consumption of any animal foods or products; a vegetarian diet is plainly the non-consumption of meats. In the article “Background of the Issue” the writer claims: “The philosopher Plato described a vegetarian diet as "divinely ordained.” Although hunting, gathering, and consuming animals has remained since the…

Throughout Eating Animals, Jonathan Foer illustrates all the different elements that go into the production of animal meat, showing different perspectives and emphasizing on the inhumane aspects. When consuming meats, people do not generally think about where that meat is coming from, but instead how good it tastes. They blind themselves from the diseases that meat could be carrying and the pain in which the animal probably endured, ignoring these facts for the sake of pleasure. Throughout a…

My Year of Meats has a particular way to display a genre in ways that other novels do not have with her unique way of presenting, Ruth Ozeki uses “meat” not just in the title but as a way that women (like Akiko) believe that they’re seen as which is cattle, I saw the metaphorical “equation” as body = meat and women = cattle. Ozeki also, most likely, did not put the clear use of cause and effect based on the fact that non-literal connections can be made about men towards women and cattle. Also,…