Livestock

Animal confinement houses are misunderstood in the world today. The general public has yet to decrease the animal rights grip on farmers causing a decrease in sales. The main battle is on the assumption of animal cruelty in a confinement house. Livestock Confinement facilities are acceptable to use and provide many benefits to the consumer and producer. Of which, the biggest benefits are shelter, health, environment, safety. One of the biggest reasons that confinement housing is used today is…

source of a greenhouse gas. Ruminant animal’s like cattle produces methane which is a greenhouse gas about 20 times more powerful of carbon dioxide. One of the main ways in which livestock sectors contributes to global warming is caused by the expansion of grazing land and farmable of land used to grow crops. The livestock sector is responsible for about 37% of human caused methane releases, and about 65% of human laughing gas releases (mainly from dropping), globally. Beef is a problem more…

information with others, so agricultural communications and education, my college major, fit naturally with this. After college, I desire to pursue a career in agricultural communications in an agricultural leadership role preferably at a fair, livestock show, or commodity board that will allow me to pass on information about agriculture to the public every day. Eventually, I wish to pursue a career in the long term in academia, as an agricultural science teacher at the middle school level,…

shortly after birth, live their entire lives in near darkness, chained by their necks and unable to move in any direction. They commonly suffer from anemia, diarrhea, pneumonia and lameness" (Motavalli N.p.). Veal, chickens, pigs, cows, and all other livestock animals are exposed to horrifying conditions when facing the end of their lives. All of these unethical experiences are due to factory farming. Factory farms are massive, dark, mechanized versions of the old-fashioned, outdoor, American…

I am interested in why we consume so much meat in North America. Perhaps if I compare how we use to farm livestock and produce meat, to how we do it now, patterns would begin to emerge. Are we more concerned with how our food is raised despite consuming greater quantities? Are we able to sustain the amount of meat that we consume on a nation-wide scale? Also, a question I think all of us have asked ourselves before, how much meat should we be eating? These are all topics I would like to expand…

very important one. When people ask you what is Rural America what would you respond? Well first off you could answer this question in many ways, but when I think about Rural America I think about the livestock industry as being one of the most important part of it. First off, our food is from livestock so therefore we need them to eat and stay healthy. The following article I have chosen to write my paper over, has covered the Rural America aspect about pigs very clearly. The article talks…

As a massive turning point in human history, plant and animal domestication has influenced our present-day lifestyle from the foods we eat to the languages we speak. Starting from its earliest ground, the Fertile Crescent, the act of domesticating plants and animals has been so ingrained in our modern world that the origins of domestication come unexpectedly. Although domestication is a widespread process today, it was rather unpopular with early peoples. Farmers back then had no model of…

industrial conglomerates that shift the costs of pollution to others for the sake of profit." Modern technology has allowed producers to grow large amounts of cheap food to feed the world. The truth is American farmers are growing non-nutritious feed for livestock and processed foods for people. By growing cheap feed it 's degrading the environment. The feed is degrading because it doesn 't give anything back to the soil so it 's just taking from the…

As defined by the Rand Corporation (3), agroterrorism is “the deliberate introduction of a disease agent, either against livestock or into the food chain, for the purposes of undermining socioeconomic stability and/or generating fear. Depending on the disease agent and pathogenic vector chosen, agroterrorism is a tactic that can be used either to cause mass socioeconomic disruption or as a form of direct human aggression”. The Department of Homeland Security defines agricultural bioterrorism as…

Having a good relationship, one’s nuclear unit can result in taking good care of the livestock. In the Navajo culture, it seems that family is what keeps the homestead going and operating because it is difficult to complete certain tasks on your own. "Thus dipping, shearing, shifting of pastures or emergencies such as droughts, during which water is hauled to the herd, require the presence of as many members of the family as possible" (Downs, 89). Having a helping hand from your family members…