Industrial Food Chain
Toxic Waste pg. 61
More cheap meat pg. 61
New/ Deadly Bacteria pg.61-62
Bad For Animals
Ground Water
Gets in our meat
Drinking Water
Meat is more available to more people
People eat more meat than they need to
Give animals antibiotics
We eat antibiotics
Bad Health = Bad Meat
Cattle forced to eat corn pg. 62
Corn affects animals health (bloat) pg. 62
The land is affected pg 62
"Natural plant eaters are fed meat." pg 69
Impacts animals health
Impacts our health
The growth of crops is affected
Affects the health of us and their eaters (bloat) pg.62
Impacts our health
Impacts the animals health
Obesity
death
Impacts our health
Antibiotics
Death
Rules and regulation are not as strict pg. 69
Cattle eat wastes products from slaughtered animlas and chicken
Diseases could come back
impacts animalas health
Impacts our health
death
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Farmers give hybrid corn a lot of chemical fertilizers pg. 44
There is 80 pounds of excess fertilizer pg. 44
Some of it evaporates into the air and creates acid rain pg. 44
Some of it turns into nitrous oxide pg. 44
Some of it seeps down into the ground water pg. 44
The rest of the extra fertilizer gets washed away by the rains and eventually ends up in the ocean pg. 45
Increases global warming pg. 44
Algal blooming in the Gulf of Mexico
A dead zone the size of New Jersey and still growing
Impacts our health
Limits our use of well water
Impacts the surrounding environment
Corn causes cows to get heartburn some die from this but usually they just get sick. Pg. 72-73
The government and agribusinesses want to keep corn prices low pg. 46
Heartburn comes with many other diseases that harms the cows organs, this is treated with antibiotics.
Cheap corn means animal feed, cheap meat, cheap HFCS, and corn can stay king of the supermarket pg. 46-47
Eater then get those antibiotics in their systgem causing the sytem to get used to them. Pg. 73
Farmers lose money by growing corn pg. 47
When we need antibiotics they will not work because we are used to them.
The government pays them part of the difference (subsidies), but it is still not enough pg. 47
All of the corn that farmers grow gets put on the market
Feeding cows corn gets cows sick pg.70
There is manure everywhere causing pollution pg.76
The manure can kill the crops.
The cow manure can get to the cows eyes and affect their health pg.75
Eating corn makes cows bloated. pg. 70
Small family farms go out of business and get replaced by big industrial farms
They produce a lot of gaspg.72
They belch a lot to release that gas pg.72
Bacteria in the cows can also be found in our burgers and steak
Corn diet doesn't let the gas escape pg.72
Humans can contract E coli from this. (note on the side)
Healthier whole foods (fruits and vegetables) cost more to buy
Gases in the rumen get filled with gas and presses up against the lungs pg.72
If not treated the pressure will choke and kill the cow. pg.72
Death
cows can get very sick a
They develop a disease called acidosis pg.72
They have too much as acid in their rumen pg.72
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causes heart burn pg.72
kills the cow pg.72
Cows with acidosis stop eating, pant, drool, paw and scratch their bellies and eat dirt pg.73
Farming is much different than it use to be
death
diarreha pg.73
ulcers pg.73
liver disese pg.73
pneumonia pg.73
"Back then 1 out of every 4 Americans lived on a famr...Out of 300 million Americans, only 2 million are still farmer." pg 32
feedlot polio pg.73
"(in 1919)The average farmer grew enough to feed 12 other americans...the average american today grows enough food to feed 140 other people." pg 32
"That's one of the reasons corn has succeeded so well. It's relatively easy for humans to breed new types of corn to fit our needs." pg 34
We grow more food to feed our tremendous population.
Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about 20 bushels per acre to about 80 bushels per acre" pg 35
Scientists are genetically modifying corn
With the industrial food chain, not as many people live on farms as they use to
More forests being torn down to make room for farming
All the food the industrial food chain grows is sprayed with harmful chemicals
With more corn, we feed more of it to animals like cows that aren't made to eat corn
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