Factory farms are also known as: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation CAFO Confined Animal Feeding

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Factory farms are also known as Concentrated
Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Confined Animal
Feeding Operation (CAFO) Conventional Farming
Industrial Agricultural Operation Industrial
Livestock Operation (ILO) Factory Farming is also
referred to as Industrial Agriculture Production.
Factory Farming in the Developing World
By Jesse Dann September 27, 2004 Eco-LOGICAL
Economics
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What is Factory Farming?

• The mass production of livestock, with the goal
  of producing as much meat as possible, as quickly
  as possible.
• Most people harbor the incorrect idea that the
  meat that they eat comes from happy livestock on
  Ol Macdonald's farm (where the cows go moo!).
  However, this is rarely the case.

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The False, Idyllic Image
moo
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The reality of Farming
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Traditional v.s. Conventional Farming

• Traditional Farming
• Livestock aid with labor, produce milk, and
  supply transportation. Farmers produce a variety
  of foods (from meats to veggies and fruits) and
  do so sustainably.
• Conventional farming
• Monocrops of meat, which are environmentally and
  socially destructive (one conventional farm can
  replace 10 traditional farms).

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Traditional (family) Farming

• Family farms are better for the humane treatment
  of livestock, the responsible disposal or reuse
  of wastes, and the overall quality and health of
  the meat.
• Family farms allow their livestock to graze and
  socialize, and are efficient in their allocation
  of resources.

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Conventional Farming

• More than one third of all grain produced
  world-wide is fed to factory farm livestock.
• The developing world is beginning to take up
  factory farming because of the economic boost
  that it supposedly offers (if the cost of
  environmental reparations is not included).
• Conventional farms treat their livestock
  inhumanely, solely as a form of economic wealth,
  resulting in a meat of poorer quality and health.
  Inefficiency and the contamination of the
  environment come hand-in-hand with Factory
  Farming.

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Health and Environmental Implications

• Increased incidence of food borne diseases,
  species hopping illnesses.
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (POSSIBLE PANDEMIC
  RESULTING IN DIRECT HUMAN DEATHS ALONG WITH FOOD
  SHORTAGES)
• Contamination of ground water.
• The use of rBGH and the Genetic Engineering of
  feed (whats next, the animals?)
• Diseases of affluence that stem from meat
  consumption.
• And a plethora of other environmental and health
  issues.

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The Ecological Footprint
of Factory Farming
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Discussion Qs

• Considering the amount of water the goes into
  growing grain for livestock feed, the other
  resources consumed, and not to mention the waste
  produced, is FF efficient?
• Should the US take a leading role in returning to
  traditional farming?
• What can be done for developing countries, to
  boost their economies and to keep the globalizing
  market from forcing them into mass production
  (international law reform)?