Blog 2 - Fast Meat equals Environmental Disaster

Ninety nine percent of meat we consume today comes from 12 different factory farm slaughter houses. In this summary I will share ideas from the book eating animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer, and inform of the environmental impact of factory farming has on our society. These factory farms alone have butchered the ethics of what we eat. Mass produced meats come along with hidden costs affecting the world in many ways as a cause for global warming "Animal agriculture makes a 40 percent greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change" this major factor alone is inspirational to change how we consume meat by adjusting our dieting habits (EA 43 Jonathan Saffran Foer). Runoff from lagoons which are loads of animal excrament, run off into streams and create dead-zones in which fish and other living animals cannot survive in the contaminated habitat. You are able to tell when youre close to a factory farm due to the smell. Which local residents are also affected, Enduring crappy air for most of their lives if they cant afford to leave. Aside from environmental damage it claims peoples lives, contaminated meat is sold and often not recalled or if companies are willing to recall it is too late. In the film Food Inc we meet a mother Barbara Kowalcyk who loses her son Kevin a two and a half year old boy. The meat was later recalled some months later. Factory Farming is dirty, and produces toxic meat to people for consumption.