Factory Farming Research Paper

For more than 3 decades factory farming has been a norm to America. We find it normal to kill an animal for our own needs. We find it normal about what happens on factory farms. The reality is not those farm animals being happy and healthy, but being abused and slaughtered.That is the reality, and it all plays big roles in our health sand enviornment. Some critical dangers of factory farming for the enviornment and people's health include, rise in obesity, drug-resistant bacteria that can lead to infections, pollution, salmonella plus E.coli risk and water contamination that usually lead to higher taxes. Animal products are the main and primary source of saturated fat. Saturated fat has been linked to heart disease and obesity.
This means that eating large portions of meat and dairy products will inrease the risk of heart disease and stroke.According to Farmsanc.org,"Obesity has risen from meat and milk,so has salmonella in meat and eggs." Animal products contain 25% more saturated fat in a American diet. Antibiotics play a big role in factory farming and your diet.Antibiotics are used to prevent and essestially "cure" certain diseases and infections that make a animal sick and unhealthy.Steriods are often used also.
Steriods are used mainly on female cows to increase milk production and to increase the size of the animal for slaughter later when the animal is no longer useful to the factory. The bigger the animal equals the more product after.Unfortuantly, since these animals are being given such large doses in small amounts of time,the infections and diseases are being unaffected whatsoever by the medicine and is reproducing. Once the animal is slaughtered and packaged for you, those same antibiotics ,sterioids and bacteria are still floating around ready to attack you next. When someone chooses to eat their meat and dairy products,that bacteria spread into them. Deadly effects of repeated antibiotic use can lead to drug resistant bacteria which too, can spread to a humans body. This results in sickness,infections and potentionally death. Farmsanctuary.org stated that,"Since the 1950s, antibiotics have been used on factory farms to increase the rate of growth in animals. Today, an estimated 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are given to farm animals for non-therapeutic purposes. Using antibiotics in this way can lead to drug-resistant bacteria; as a result, certain bacterial infections have already become or are on their way to becoming untreatable in humans. Antibiotic resistant infections kill 90,000 Americans every year.'' (Gene
Baur) Factory farming not only includes dnagers to people's health but to the enviormnment also. Some neighborhoods that are located near those factory farms pay more money for roads damaged from heavy animal feeding semi trucks also known as CAFOs:
''On environmentally sustainable family farms, animal waste is used to improve soil fertility and add essential nutrients. CAFOs, however, attempt to dispose of vast quantities of animal waste on limited amounts of farmland. This over-application of waste pollutes our water, soil, and air.In addition to contaminating water, CAFO waste pollutes the air. Liquefied animal waste emits 160 known toxic gases, including hydrogen sulfide, a deadly gas with the characteristic stench of rotten''. [Sraproject.org] The waste buildup that CAFOs is responisble of realeases greenhouse gases like,carbon dioxide.This also includes methane and nitrous oxide,which both contribute to global warming. The dangers of factory farming that impact the enviornement and people's health include, obesity,heart disease,drug-resistant bacteria that often lead to deadly infections,pollution and unfair high taxes. Patterns nupon patterns of information were given. The pattern was mainly about the large doses given to animals to reduce illness.