Industrial agriculture

Farming is a major factor that separates mankind from other species on Earth. By, having the ability to plant, care for, and harvest crops set humanity on track to modern-day civilization, and still remains its backbone to this day. As soon as humans began growing crops, improvements to farming quickly followed. Advancements such as artificial irrigation and the artificial growth of crops heavily benefit consumers. Farming has not always been perfect however; food remains the heart of many…

I am concentrating on the medical part of anthropology and eventually going on to medical school. The health of the community is foremost in my mind. The problem in this area is the sewer sludge put on agricultural lands to fertilize the crops. The farmers buy the sludge and truck it to the fields. The problem is the sludge is not tested to determine if there are pathogens living in the supposedly treated sludge. A rancher was having problems with E. coli in his newborn calves. He asked me…

monocytogenes was able survive for a duration of time without a host and resist industrial sanitizers. There have been several instances where deadly diseases have appeared in containment food and has been a threat to consumers’ health. Overcrowding in the cages makes it accessible for diseases and other illness to spread onto other neighboring animals. As the diseases spread within the livestock, it could lead to health concerns for consumers. We begin to devalue the lives and importance of…

Another animal which is a part of factory farming is the pig and about 30 million of them must experience lives full of misery in Canada each year. Female pigs have their children separated from them at birth and are forced to spend their whole lives in 2 foot wide metal crates which are so small that they can’t lie down properly and can’t turn around. Isn’t it sad that these pigs will never be able to feel the sun on their backs or breathe in the fresh air but instead have to live their whole…

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or also known as CAFO’s are another cause for the contamination of water. CAFO’s are giant livestock farms where thousands of chicken and cows are housed into small confinements and live in horrible conditions. When so many animals are stored in a limited space manure will become a problem for the farm, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, “CAFOs produce some 300 million tons of untreated manure each year (about twice as much as is generated by…

Jacob C. Thompson Quarter 3 Informational Writing There are many cause of small family farms decreasing. The causes are the government and the USDA (United States department of agriculture) creating regulations that purposely take out small family farms, therefore these regulations cause extra expenses. and the aging farmer and their children not wanting to take over the farm. There are many causes of the huge decrease of dairy farms in America. The kind of farms that are…

You ever wondered what went on down in the United States when they trade food to other countries? You ever wondered what the animals were being fed to them just to be slaughtered afterward? Well, most of the answers will terrify you! Most of the animals are being fed pesticides and dead corpses within those unsanitary farmhouses. It’s honestly more like a prison for those poor animals. I’ll explain to you some major factors that are happening in these farmhouses such as: unsanitary conditions…

Factory farming, also known as industrial farming, is a modern form of farming where livestock such as cattle, pigs, or chickens are kept in tight cages known as battery cages to meet the food consumption of human. Factory farms keep large numbers of animals to be raised for food in tight and confined spaces in order to minimize operation cost. The meat that comes from these factories are cheaper because there is enough food to meet demand. Over 99% of the meat in America comes from a factory…

Eating Animals: The Cost is Sickening: An Annotated Bibliography Angelova, Kamelia. "13 Stunning Facts About The Rise Of Industrial Meat Farming In America." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 27 Jan. 2011. Web. 24 Sept. 2015. . Kamelia Angelova’s “13 Stunning Facts about The Rise of Industrial Meat Farming in America” was a look at thirteen facts, which truly shined light the explosive growth of factory farming in America. Angelova points out that between 1997 and 2007, every day, factory…

Factory farms have both a good and bad side. In order to understand this, it helps to know what factory farming is. Factory farming is “a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food” (ASPCA, 2016). Factory farming is something that the public does not necessarily like to think about. They do not like to think about it because they assume that something in the United States that provides so much food for people has to be done both safely for the consumption by humans…