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Local Sustainable (Shelby (pg. 211-223) (Even tho changing to local…

- - - - Produce hundreds of eggs that the farm sells
      - The produce the fertilizer that grows the grass
      - Get rid of the bugs that the cows would end up dealing with
- - - - Farmers use plows to kill weeds and plant seeds so that the weeds dont have room to grow back. This is much healthier than spraying weed killer and poising the soil you will plant your food in.
      - Local farms dont use as many chemicals as industrial farms because they dont have as large of a farm to control and dont have to send it as far.This makes the food that comes from the farm healthier.
      - Local farm feed their animals that they naturally eat and this is better for the enviornment. For example a chicken would eat grass and not corn.
      - Local farms do use fertilizers that are needed just to get rid of the bugs in the food sense the food is natural and not genetically engineered in away that kills the bugs. This makes the food we eat healthier for us consumers to eat.
- - - - lower disease risk & better egg quality in birds. also can increase the animals resistance to the cold
  - - - more profit for farmers
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- - - - 97% of smaller farms are owned by a bigger farm
        
        Many farmers accept the offers of big farms because of the "benefits". Most industries will tell the farmers they will always make a profit, but little do they know of the consequences.
        
        Most of the chickens that the bigger brands give them are smaller and not fit. There is noway to get good chicken from a underdeveloped chick. The feed that the chickens are also low in nutrition. There is no way to get a healthy chicken when your feed is low in nutrition and they area runt.
      - One of the biggest household names Tyson was sued for sending sick chickens to local farmers after they made them buy extremely expensive equipment that the farmers could not afford. Even after all of this Tyson ended up dropping some farmers license for bring up health concerns.
      - Most of the chicken industry is controlled majorly by 4 companies: Tyson, Purdue, Pilgrim Farms, and Sanderson Farms. These companies have made the local competitive chicken market a thing of the past. In doing this local farms are having to buy contracts from the big industries just to stay in business. In doing this the farmers are "vulnerable to deceptive, noncompetitive and abusive practices".