Corn is not the most nutritious crop, and most of the animals in factory farms don’t eat corn in their normal diets, nevertheless factories continue to feed large amounts of corn to the animals. This drastic change in diets are not beneficial to the animals in the slightest, feeding them like this is expensive in terms of putting everyone’s health at risk. E-coli is a bacterium found in the digestive tracks of organisms, it is usually harmless, or at least in previous years it was. Progressively as farmers constantly fed the animals large quantities of corn, they started becoming sick. More specifically, their digestive system was infected with a harmful and life-threatening type of e-coli. Cow, for example, stand in their own manure which spreads it around, and effects …show more content…
Their point of view on this topic is that because there is an abundance of corn it can feed more animals and that will result in feeding more mouths of the people. However, this “cheapness” overlooks the other costs at ricks. If factories continue to feed the nutrition less corn to animals, it will eventually be more expensive in the terms of external and internal costs. And external cost is not directly in regards of money, but the price the earth has to pay. Environmental damage will be brought upon if the feeding of corn continues, this is because the toxic e-coli bacteria in the animals will be incorporated into the runoff, and contaminate the water, leaving less reusable water tht is essential for life on earth. And the internal costs the corn feeding will result in are the law suits that will cost time and