Intensive farming is a way of producing vast amounts of crops by using numerous chemicals and machines. These practices include growing high-yield crops‚ using fertilisers‚ pesticides and keeping animals indoors. Food production is increased however there are various advantages and disadvantages of this particular method. An example of this method would be conventional chicken farming. This method may be used by farmers due to predators e.g. foxes killing their free range chickens‚ minimising their
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1) Intensive farming practices include growing high-yield crops‚ using fertilisers and pesticides and keeping animals indoors. Food production is increased but there are unwelcome side effects. 2) Prevents energy being transferred from the crop to consumers. Reduces biodiversity. May poison helpful organisms. 3) Chemical insecticides (which kill insect pests). Herbicides which kill plants or weeds. 4) Ground water contamination: Chemicals can reach underground aquifers if there is persistent
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Executive Summary Intensive pig farming is an agricultural industry that operates by raising live pigs for slaughtering which will then be turned into pork for human consumption. Piggeries‚ as the firm is called‚ serve as a major food source in the Philippines‚ with the highest grossing per capita consumption among red meats. The industry is fairly attractive to investors as its high capital requirement and risky nature is effectively balanced out by the steady demand of a readily available market
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Is Intensive Farming better than Organic Farming? Name: Molly Sexton School: City of London Academy Centre Number: 10877 Candidate Number: 8145 Contents Page Page 1- Title Page Page 3- Introduction Page 4 – Is Organic better than Intensive? Page 5- Is Intensive better than Organic? Introduction In this case study I will be looking at weather “Intensive Farming” is better that “Organic Farming”
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it harder to get over human illnesses. In general‚ when medication is injected into something or someone then it will stay within it. Global health risks are being produced in factory farms. In the article “5 modern diseases grown by the factory farming” (Monica Nickelsburg) it states “Unnaturally high concentrations of animals confined indoors in a limited airspace and producing significant quantities of waste may allow for the rapid selection‚ amplification and dissemination of zoonotic pathogens”
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Through the many packaged and wrapped meats‚ people go through everyday‚ there was bloodshed in an immoral manner. Business and industries have done a good job of keeping such methods in the shadows. It couldn’t be more clear to me that factory farming not only paves the way for animals abuse‚ environmental pollution‚ and low quality food‚ yet can even be harmful to the consumers themselves‚ and for
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Factory farming speech. What really is factory farming. Well i am going to tell you about factory farming. First off we can all do something about this. How would u feel about thousands of animals crammed are being crammed into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates. They are basically forced into cannibalism because they scratch each other and peak because they are so hungry What sense would be affected first? Smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death. The sound of
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Factory farming Imagine this factory farmed animals crammed thousands into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates.what sense would be affected first? smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death‚ the sound of squealing in fear.This is a typical factory farms. I strongly believe that factory farms should be illegal. In my report I will be looking at pollution- caused by factory farms‚ the use of hormones and chemicals and the cruelty of factory farms. Another reason for I
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The Savagery Of Factory Farming Factory Farming is not only feeding us‚ but destroying us and our only world! Worldwide‚ about 70 billion farm animals are now reared for food each year. This mass production of food uses many antibiotics to speed up the birth process‚ but those antibiotics are still in the meat we eat. The waste and space from the factory farms destroys the environment and is also a danger to human health. The factory farming of animals has a negative impact on human health
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In past decades when someone said‚ “you are what you eat” a person was able to respond quite easily. Unfortunately in recent years it has become harder and harder to answer truthfully due to the growth of the factory farming industry. The average american is completely oblivious to what exactly the meat and animal products they consume contains. In 2012‚ the average American consumed 71.2 pounds of red meat and 54.1 pounds of poultry ‚ according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Wall
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