Persuasive Essay On Factory Farming

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "High levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in our lakes, rivers, streams, and drinking water sources cause the degradation of these water bodies and harm fish, wildlife, and human health." In the 2000 National Water Quality Inventory, states reported that agricultural nonpoint source (NPS) pollution was the leading source of water quality impacts on surveyed rivers and lakes, as well as the second largest source of impairments to wetlands, and a major contributor to contamination of surveyed estuaries and groundwater. Agricultural activities that cause NPS pollution include poorly located or managed animal feeding operations; overgrazing; plowing too often or at the wrong time; and improper, excessive or poorly timed application of pesticides, irrigation water and fertilizer. Since the 1960s, the high input of agriculture production has resulted in the surplus of nitrogen and phosphorus in farm fields, which run off into surface waters. High concentrations of nitrates and phosphates in surface waters could lead to eutrophication and instability of the aquatic ecosystems. Eutrophication is caused by the over-enrichment of water with phosphates and nitrates, a problem that has become a widespread in rivers, lakes, estuaries, and coastal

Factory farms increase production and help feed the world. Due to an increase in population factory farms holds the world’s food supply in check. Factory farms produce more animals in a quicker matter than any other place. Factory farms help contain waste and help stop some

As the Earth’s population grows at breakneck pace over the next several decades, who will feed the world’s people? Agriculture has undergone an extensive expansion and transformation throughout the last few centuries, beginning with the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s. New technology allowed for better and greater methods of production. With the development of modern technology, people try to think some way can plant less, get more. Many farmers plant only one crop in the same place year after year. However, those against monocropping claim that it is very hard on the environment and actually less profitable than organic means of farming (“Monoculture Crops – Learn About The Effects Of Monocropping”). In addition, the destructive nature of agriculture has recently shown its hand. While our supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants are filled with abundant food options, people forget to ask themselves where all this food comes from. Globalization has opened up economies of scale and has allowed people to tap into different types of products, whether that is food or clothing. But the availability of an increased mass market comes at a cost. However, today, the modern farming techniques have grown into a headache for farmers and governments alike, because they are the consequences of overproduction, industrial waste and other problems arising from the modern methods of agriculture. Thus, modern techniques are harmful to environments, animals, and humans.

Madeleine Farnsworth Dr. Willard PHIL 1000 October 26th, 2014 Philosophy Paper: Factory Farming Most Americans live their lives in complete utter ignorance when it comes to the food they consume. Is it valid to argue that if people don't know what they are eating then it doesn't matter the process by which it was created? If we all knew what we were truly consuming and the means by which our food was created we would not be able to continue living in ignorance. Picture you are going to a fast food restaurant to pick up a burger.

Agricultural runoff is another big factor in water pollution and it is similar to the storm water process but only with more dangerous pollutants. Agricultural waste runoff from the barnyards finds its way into the drainage emerging with the water bodies. The runoff from the barnyard being polluted by the multiple fertilizers used in the crops, pesticides, and livestock waste. Then the polluted water from the runoff makes contact with the water bodies such as lakes and rivers polluting them. There are two essential chemicals for the growth of crops and livestock: nitrogen and phosphorus. However, nitrogen and phosphorous are very dangerous chemicals when they make contact with water or soil. High concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus in

When you are a child you are innocent and you don’t know what you consuming, in this world we consuming many chemicals things without thing if is going to affect us in a bad way. This is my case I thought it doesn't matter if you eat natural or not but it does because your body is not “prepared” to have chemicals. A farmer sustainable is a person who that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare.

Also, factory farms should be prohibited because they treated animal very inhumane. According to the research, the average number of animal in a factory farm is about 80,000, but this number include all the big animal, such as cows and pigs. If we focus on the chicken factory farms, we will find out that number of chickens in the factory farms are a lot more than 80,000. The living spaces for chicken in the factory farms are very small, and most of the chicken can’t even turn around or lie down comfortable or even lock in the cage till they are slaughtered. According to the research, the average space for egg-laying hens in factory farms are only 67 square inches, and the dimensions of a standard-size sheet of letter paper is 93.5 square inches.

I do not agree with the way food is produced in factory farms. Factory farms have been the cause of several deaths. Unsanitary conditions on farms have spread disease and sickness such as E. Coli. I believe that consumers should be fully aware of what they are eating, and the physical abuse that the animals are undergoing. These animals are being pumped with hormones, stuck in dark and cramped spaces, and are tossed around like their lives don’t have a meaning. Animals should be treated with respect; animals are the one that provide nutrition for us. In return, these animals are not respected, but are treated as a meal.

In Whitney Houston’s song Greatest Love of All she sings, “I believe that children are our future.” I have heard this line several times throughout my life. However if children are continually becoming more removed from the family farm, what does that future look like for agriculture?

Beep! Beep! Beep! I rolled over and stopped my alarm that was going off at one in the morning; I had to get up because it was time to check our cows. It was late January and all of our cows started having their calves. Every three hours the cows need checked so everyone in my family had their turn. Now that it was my turn, I crawled out of bed and got dressed to go out into the dark of the night to see if we get to bring another baby calf into this world. I have grown up on a farm with 9,000 pigs, 40 cows, 6 hunting dogs, and 150 acres of alfalfa which requires work that is usually never easy. I have been an active part of the routine care of these animals ever since I was four years old. Living on a farm has helped me learn more about life than most could ever imagine. In Father Boyle’s “Tattoo’s on the Heart” we learned how he gave the homies opportunities that most would never get the chance to have and in order to succeed, you must have failure. Growing up on a farm is an opportunity that most never have, it is like being an outcast. I couldn’t imagine a day in the homies shoes, and they couldn’t imagine a day in mine but we at the end of the day we can all relate to and are all thankful for getting second chances, new opportunities and learning how to forgive.

Three things I will go over is, opportunities in agriculture, things 6 & 7 graders will make, and new skills.

Current conventional farming practices are also responsible for many pollution problems that would not exist otherwise. The land where we live and grow our food, the water we drink, and the air we breathe are all being contaminated. The large amounts of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers used on our crops are poisoning the soil, air, and water. Toxic heavy metals such

It is extremely easy to be satisfied in our sanctuary world to eventually turn to the violence and despair that our everyday life decision partakes, and that the country buys into. If the world knew what the horrors of the meat industry are doing, businesses will decrease. To keep their secrets unknown, meat and animal factory farms are carefully keeping quiet, like a fugitive the fugitive they are because they just committed murder. People around the world are making efforts while the animal cruelty is becoming a more of a mainstream. Factory farming is probably the horrific thing you can do the poor helpless animals. Most factory farming affects pigs, cows, chickens, and other animals that are used for milk, food, and eggs. Some of these animals grow faster than others, so in large groups, they are shipped onto trucks through traitorous terrains and sent to be killed in a slaughterhouse. Animals living through the nightmare of getting their throats slit, while they are alive and conscious. All these animals live and exercise every single day to becoming the energy to producing our human consumption. Cows are now being used to express the idea to eat more chicken, without knowing the truth.

Water pollution from agriculture can greatly affect human quality of life. Livestock manure can contain pathogens and bacteria that can make humans extremely sick if it is ingested. The ingestion is most likely through contaminated drinking water. Humans can even become ill if the produce we buy to eat has been washed with contaminated water. Water pollution from agriculture can also affect other things such as air quality. The water that farmers use for irrigation will eventually leach into the groundwater with all of the pesticides and fertilizers attached to it, which will then evaporate into the air through the water cycle and will pollute the air that humans breathe as well. Air pollution is one of the most common causes of cancer in humans. Because agriculture uses 70% of our freshwater, it is extremely likely for the water to become polluted and affect human health. Also, the release of pesticides in water from agricultural use have been known to cause cancer in humans

As a non-point source, the majority of water pollution caused by agriculture is due to sediment. Farmlands near a surface water-source, such as lakes or rivers, are polluted due to the soil. As explained on the EPA website, soil enters the bodies of water where the particles cloud the water; the soil that enters the sources cause a hazardous chain reaction. Plants in the water dependent on the sun do not receive sufficient sunlight, and are unable to grow properly. Consequently, organisms that feed off the plants do not receive sufficient nutrients; the insufficient amount of nutrients obtained moves up the food ladder; those organisms have to consume more to obtain their required amounts of nutrients. Additionally, because of the cloudy water, caused by the soil, the gills of fish are blocked, and bottom dwellers are covered with sediment; this leads to the death of those and other organisms in the water-source that were dependent on the fish and bottom dwellers; there is also a reduction of oxygen.