Industrial agriculture

Ashley Strathman Anthropology Extra credit December 2, 2014 Food Inc. An old picket fence, 1930’s farm house, a farmer and his big red barn. Most people imagine that this is where their food comes from, a farm. But, is this still the “farms” that we have today? Faster, fatter, bigger and cheaper is the new motto of American food production. Once you reveal the fact about where your food comes you find a very different reality that depicted in your local grocery store. Factory no longer farm,…

Industrial farms are pumping our livestock full of antibiotics and it's harming societies all over the world. Since the likes of farmers and pastures are shrinking and feedlots and monopolies are growing, the process of meat production has gotten much less intimate and a whole lot more like factory farming. This means that since meat companies want to make as much profit as possible by squeezing as many livestock as they can into one space, they have to find a way to reduce sickness and death…

What if all the CAFOs shut down and everyone had to go back to growing their own beef. This would affect all people that live in Indiana because at the beginning prices of meat would skyrocket in the first few years and then level out. (Cohn, 2014) People think this would be both good and bad and I will tell you why. First, we will talk about producers and what will happen to them if there was a law passed that banned CAFOs. If this happened the people who own and work at CAFOs would be out of…

Ever consider how many federal laws there are that govern the conditions in which farm animals are raised? The truth is, there are slim to none. Every day, millions of Americans consume meat bought at grocery stores, never considering the treatment that the farmed animals had to deal with before being packaged and put onto store shelves. Yes, animals should be used for food, but in a more humane way. On today’s factory farms, thousands of animals, such as cows, pigs, and chickens, are either…

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…

examine the lack of humane and responsible farming practices that occur in the United States. “According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the EPA, animal feeding operations produce approximately 500 million tons of manure every year, 15 with CAFOs generating 4716-60% 10 of this excrement.” (The Impact of Industrialized Animal Agriculture on the Environment, 2012). This is a complex and controversial issue that is hindered by lack of media coverage, apathetic…

healthy as opposed to factory produced foods. A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. Over 99 percent of farm animals in the United States are raised…

farming is heavily prevalent in todays society. Most nearly all of the meat and by products of animals come from animals raised in factories, robbing them of living and fulfilling a full life. I one hundred percent agree with Blake Hurst that “only ‘industrial farming’ of meat can possibly see the demand for an increasing population and increased demand for food as a result of growing incomes”. The world today is growing at a way too rapid pace for natural production of animals. The days of…

Do you really know what goes on inside factory farms? A factory farm is a large industrial operation that raises a mass production of animals for food.That means they lock up a bunch of animals in small cages and eventually kill them to make the food that we eat everyday. So many animals get killed each day and people don’t even understand how factory farming is destroying the environment. Some people say how it is good for the environment and some people, like me, say how it is bad for the…

Europeans continues to develop more than the New Guineans because they have greater access to resources. The New Guineans have always been disadvantaged because the Europeans have mastered the method of animal domestication and gathering. It is hard for New Guineans to develop animal domestication because pigs are the only animals they can access. The Europeans developed because of the Middle East. 13,000 years ago the middle east had lots of food supply and humid. There were more forests,…