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ENVIORNMENTAL IMPACT
of Meat Production
Increase In America
HOW MANY CHICKEN DO YOU NEED?
The number of the
chickens here are
consumed in America
in one year time.
Many of these
prepared for your table
will become waste in
the very lands that
produce the chickens
you have eaten and are
feeding to your family.
Progressive Increase
Animal factory farming contributes to
consumption of freshwater and fossil
fuels which alone with methane, and CO2
emissions from decomposing feces and
impacts global climate changes more
than one quarter of total freshwater.
Livestock Environment And
Development Livestock industry is one of the largest
contributors to environmental
degradation worldwide and the
modernizing of raising animals for
food contributes on a ―massive scale‖
to the AIR and WATER with pollution
Scottish salmon farm:
To increase Bottom line (to increase fish supplies) fish farmers cram as many fish as possible into small enclosures alone with the injuries of the fish –parasitic infestations, and diseases are common.
To keep fish from dying in these horrible conditions
farmer lace their food with powerful chemical and antibiotics and you ingest when you are eating your favorite fish.
PETA
Modern Farming Uses Water
Supplies
Irrigation pumps
withdraw more
water than the local
governments
Seven-five percent
of water usage
goes to farming for
factory-farms
Deficit 475 billion
gallons a year
Defatting process
waste water
Increases water
waste
Scalding tanks
contain blood dirt
and manure eight
liters of waste
water per bird from
the overflow
Hide Removal
Environmental waste
Blood and tissue produced from hide
removal fall on the floor –External
contamination of the hide with dirt and
manure is secondary source of
pollutants waste load, is increased
with clean-up operations: water
trough's, rain. snow water and pen
wash downs.
Live stock Increasingly
SeriousLarge –scale live stock operations
provide most of the meat and meat
products consumed around the
world—consumption that is growing at
a record pace and is projected to
double by 2050
Professor Harold Mooney of biological
science at Stanford.
Biological Diversity
Variability among living organisms from
all sources including diversity within
species between species and of
ecosystems(biodiversity) Seeing a
tremendous environmental problems
with these operations land
degradation, air and
water pollution to the loss of
biodiversity and the developing world
is vulnerable to the effects of these
operations
Environmental Impact
“A new study in the American
Journal of Agricultural Economics
explores the effects of pollution
from livestock facilities on infant
health and finds that production is
associated with an increase in
infant mortality.”