These animals are born and raised in a warehouse style environment. Instead of grazing in pastures, they are feed corn which allows them to be fully mature for slaughter between fourteen to sixteen months. However, cattle raised on a free-range ranch take four to five years to mature. Also, feeding cows corn gives them gas, which makes them belch methane. Methane is 23% more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide . Two-thirds of the manmade nitrous oxide comes from livestock manure. These gases contribute to the Greenhouse effect (Lundberg, 483). Dues to the poor conditions that these animals live in, nineteen million pounds of antibiotics are produced each year to keep them healthy. The total amount of antibiotics produced by America per year is only 24 million pounds, this means that only 5 million pounds are for human consumption (Lundberg,
These animals are born and raised in a warehouse style environment. Instead of grazing in pastures, they are feed corn which allows them to be fully mature for slaughter between fourteen to sixteen months. However, cattle raised on a free-range ranch take four to five years to mature. Also, feeding cows corn gives them gas, which makes them belch methane. Methane is 23% more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide . Two-thirds of the manmade nitrous oxide comes from livestock manure. These gases contribute to the Greenhouse effect (Lundberg, 483). Dues to the poor conditions that these animals live in, nineteen million pounds of antibiotics are produced each year to keep them healthy. The total amount of antibiotics produced by America per year is only 24 million pounds, this means that only 5 million pounds are for human consumption (Lundberg,