Industrial Food Chain
Cattle are forced to live in CAFOs
New/deadly bacteria
More meat. Yay!?
Tons of toxic waste
Bad for animals
Cow are forced to live in their own poop.
Cattle are forced to eat corn
Gets into ground water
Gets into meat
Meat is cheaper
Pollutes the environment
Bad for the cattle's health.
Bad for our health
Gets into streams and rivers
The animals can get sick, contaminating the meat
Bad for humans health (obesity)
The animals aren't living in good conditions
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Can kill off other plants around the cattle
Due to quantity over quality, it's harder to ensure that the meat does not contain diseases and bacteria
The other animals that eat the meat can die off and there would be less animals to eat
If we get the virus then we can get other people sick and it will keep on spreading
"Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. Among kids, it's almost as bad. Seventeen percent of kids age six through nineteen are obese. This is a giant public health problem, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year." -Page 91
Scummy advertising and behind the scenes stuff
Supersizing, where the size of one item is increased so that the consumer doesn't need to come back for more. This is so that the consumer feels like they're just having one serving, and not coming back for more, because that makes them feel like pigs. The one serving is a lot bigger in size though.
Government uses taxpayer money to fund corn and soy bean farming, even though they say they want us to eat healthily. Meaning they are supported HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) and other unhealthy things.
Plants are no longer in the natural cycle they used to be.
The fertilizer used to make the plants grow faster uses a substance called Ammonium Nitrate, a non-organic compound that gives the plants a boost in nitrates, causing them to rely less on their natural processes.
Ammonium Nitrate, the artificial source of nitrates for most plants, the plants we eat on a daily basis is also an active ingredient in forms of explosives.
[Chemical Fertilizers And Roundup: The Stealthy Ingredients Killing You And Your Crops] Written by Sarah of OffTheGridNews, she has several articles about natural substances and how to use them to improve your life. Somewhat dated, being written in 2012 Link Title
Industrial farms use fossil fuels for everything, and some farmers over-fertilize their farms. The farmer George Naylor calls it "a form of yield insurance" and says he puts 180 pounds of fertilizer on his farm (80 pounds over the recommended.) The extra fertilizer can turn into nitrous oxide or runoff into our ground water.
Not enough plants for the cows to eat so then they won't grow. That means less meat and milk for us, then we can't rely on cows anymore.
Scientist will not know how to fix this problem if it happens too much and then we won't have cows for milk anymore
Bad for the health of the land.
Bad for our health when we eat the meat
Brings out new and deadly diseases
Encourages more corn farming and funding
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