Intensive farming

Another downside of the Industrialized Farming Animal Production is that they have created an escalating range of detrimental environmental effects on local and regional water, air and soil resources (Carlin). “More than half, 54%, of all confined farm animals by weight are concentrated in just 5% of the country’s industrial animal production facilities” (HSUS 2008). The majority of the environmental harm caused by these factory farms results from the high volume of waste that must be stored…

Marketing is key to the success of any product produced by a company. Companies aren’t always honest with their customers though. Not every food company is out there to manipulate customers to buy their product. However the majority of the food industry is manipulating their customers to buy their products. There are numerous articles and advertisements that support these faulty claims. While marketing is needed for the company to survive, there are flaws and faulty claims in the food industry.…

site is located between 37 and 100km Northwest of Addis Ababa. It has a high potential for rain-fed cereal and livestock production. The main food crops are barley, wheat, teff, beans and peas. Livestock is considered to be the main asset of the farming community. There are two cropping seasons in a year. The major cropping season is characterized by relatively high rainfall, starting in late June and lasting until October. This is the most productive season. The other wet season starts in…

A family in the documentary stated that for what one item, like lets say naturally grown potato, they can go to burger king or Wendy's and get an entire meal there for the price of one bag of naturally grown potatoes. That is incredibly true. As Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) said “America is the fattest nation in the world. Over 100 million Americans are overweight or obese. 60% of all US adults are overweight or obese.” This is not acceptable. America needs to wake up. We need to make healthy…

The American Society has become accustomed to fast and inexpensive food. Recently, factory farming has came to existence to quicken the process of creating beef and poultry. In those farms, animals are raised to be butchered. On the factory farms, the animals suffer through cruel living conditions and are fed antibiotic feeds. Whereas animals raised on private, organic farms are raised in a healthy manner and lack chemicals. Organic foods are found to have better flavor than the cheap food. To…

Introduction: Throughout this class, we have discussed the transition process from conventional farming systems to certified organic farming systems and its many benefits. We began by the organic certification process and all of the steps and requirements for becoming certified as an organic producer, we talked about some of the challenges that organic producers will encounter throughout the transition period as well as in their organic crops, the transition to organic livestock production and…

organic methods are being tested to find solutions to the lack of availability in organic products. Once farmers become more encouraged, then conventional farmers can revert to traditional methods and resolve can be found in problematic conventional farming methods. Modern organic methods can potentially replace alternative methods which in turn promote a healthy pesticide-free variety of…

Thomas and Joe: The Landscapers Thomas Gainsborough and Joe Rader Roberts are not your typical landscapers. In fact, the two are not the manual laborers who clean and fix up your lawn and gardens. Both men are artists who have remarkable works of landscape art. The difference between the two is that they were born nearly two centuries apart, so one can most likely see a huge setting and story difference in the works of art. I honestly could not have picked a better combination to compare and…

as things that you may think are a nuisance, but in reality, they don’t affect your farm at all. Chapter 7, “Stewards of the Wild”, by Brian A. DeVore, is an article that involves three different farmers that are taking different steps in their farming techniques in order to preserve the land for a longer period of time, and also to keep the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico from growing larger. Mike Natvig, Dan Specht, and the Fagerlands are the three farmers who are followed throughout the…

Factory 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…