Factory Farms - Good or Bad
Proponents of factory farming feel that it is a low-cost efficent way to produce massive amounts of meat in a short amount of time.
Opponents feel that the environmental costs and the heartless treatment of animals outweigh any savings.
Please support your opinion with at least 2 cited facts and reply to at least 2 people on the other side
Good- Cheap and Efficient
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Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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A little over 300 Million human beings live in the United States. We, as a society, have found a cheap and efficient way of feeding the massive amount of citizens in the US. Factory Farming provides a cheap, cost effective way of producing mass amounts of food with more revenue than expenses. Many argue that these are a bad thing, but currently they allow everyone in America to buy food for cheap and affordable prices. These large factory farms also invest into the community that they are near, and help benefit our community in various ways. There are undoubtedly certain inequities involved with the treatment and handling of the animals that are used to feed our nation, but sacrifices must be made to ensure that our nation doesn’t starve or go bankrupt. If we still depended on small family farming to supply our nation, food prices would be much higher and we probably wouldn’t be able to thrive as a nation and community. In conclusion, if you have ever eaten off the dollar menu, and you’re against factory farming then you are a hypocrite. Bam. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
The costs you mention aren't anywhere near making the nation "bankrupt". Take for instance a switch from battery to free-range eggs. This would significantly decrease the harm suffered by millions of chickens and only cost the average citizen about $0.74 extra in eggs per month. This is based on data produced by a pro-battery (pro-factory farming) report. If We, as a society, can send men to the Moon, we can feed our citizens and avoid torturing millions of animals. We as a nation have the capacity to address animal cruelty, environmental, and economical issues when it comes to food production. Animals aren't machines. Our aim should not be to only make them more efficient and more profitable regardless of the non-monetary costs. (Source: http://www.unitedegg. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Additionally, feeding the world with meat is not the way to go. Think about it-- around 10% of the energy contained in plants is made available in the meat of the animals who eat it. No matter how "efficient" meat production is, 90% of the energy that could have been available to hungry people nationwide and worldwide is lost. The taste of meat could never be worth such a sacrifice to starving humans, tortured animals, and the damaged environment. http://ffacoalition.org/media/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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So Weldon what you are saying that cheap is more beneficial than you health. If this was the case just eat paper if your hungry What difference does it make as its cheap. Family farms have been feeding America until large corporations started forcing them out of business. Now we get food from all over the world and from factory farms. Food that is laced with injections of antibiotics where we now cannot fight illness because we have built up a immunity to medicine. Food that is raised in polluted water such as fish and shrimp in Asia that is raised in the same water that their toilets drain into. Animals at factory farms that are slaughtered even if they can't walk through the doors. We eat produce that is grown with pesticides and herbicides already in the seed that transfers to the produce as it grows. But according to you this is okay because it is cheap. I would have to ask to support your statement as food is not cheap and if you follow the rising cost you would see it. So in truth we are paying more for food with less quality. How do large corporations invest in communities other than throwing big bucks at the politicians in lobbyist money. Go search Monsanto and its contribution list. Sorry I am not going to do your =homework for you. We have a President that his wife promoted healthy eating in our schools but he himself supported Monsanto and got the contributions to do it. So what you are saying is we should devoid ourselves of all ethical qualities just to support the corporate community. Maybe when you die from eating the laced food we just toss your carcass in a community grave and bulldoze you over. I mean if you want to throw out ethics why not even for you. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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As someone who enjoys fast food as much as the next guy, factory farming is something that this nation needs. We need it to hold us together, and feed all of us in a cost efficient, and fast way. Although the disadvantages are costly to our livestock, it’s the fast and easiest way to feed us. With the introduction of factory farming, farm’s produce things such as; vegetables, fruits, and poultry, in a less expensive way. This means that less fortunate people can afford a balances and nutritious diet. Also, in factory farming, the large productivity of food is possible with less amount of land. This leads to economies of scale and allows us to make more food, using less land, which saves us tones of money. We can produce high yields, increased profits, lower prices, and in terms of the latter, it is a cheaper prices, healthy food for the poor. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
Factory farming helps provide jobs to people in need of them because it is such a huge industry. With all the animals they have, they have the ability to make food cheaply and efficiently, and still have money left over to pay their workers and make profit. If they have extra money they sometimes invest in the communities in which they operate in, as a thank you type thing. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
Factory farming is important because it alows us to have mcdonalds and other fast food places. Also it alows us to get are food quicker and more of it. It also makes food cheaper in supermarkets like shaws and stop and shop. It helps us get milk and alot of it very easily. It allows us to feed large cities very easily, and they give people jobs. They invest in the communities they are located in. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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factory farming is cheap and efficient. It processes meat that is very cheap and is quick to make. With all the people in our country, having cheap processed food is good. Why do you think McDonalds is able to sell cheeseburgers for a dollar? because of all the meat that is processed in facotry frams. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
The making of the meat may be cheap and quick but they way the animals are treated is poorly. They are raised to be killed and at birth they are injected with hormones that make them grow to be big to fast which results in an extremely short life. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Factory farming produces more food, faster and cheaper. Since the industry is so big it provides many jobs for people. It allows us to produce and buy meat at a reasonable price. Since it is so efficient, the factories put money into the communities they operate in. Without factory farming we would be paying a lot more because there wouldn’t be as much food produced Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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Keep in mind that factory farmed animals live life in the dark, crowded with thousands of others in one room, have their bodies mutilated, are constantly sick, are separated from family and prevented from living normal lives, and die prematurely so meat prices can stay low. Is a slightly steeper price too much to ask to spare animals from that? http://ffacoalition.org/media/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Factory farms allows us to feed the world's population. Technologies are coming on line that produce artificial meat.. If you want to get rid of factory farms, then you either have to wait for those new technologies to mature, or you have to reduce the world's population. I am for anything that improves rush hour traffic ;) Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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Actually, factory farms do the opposite. By sending corn and other plants through farmed animals like cows, the food supply is "diluted." Without factory farming, that grain could go to third world countries and local poor instead of using ten times the grain for the same amount of food. Factory farming is the exact opposite of "efficient." Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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People will starve without these farms, its not like we have a huge food surplus, plus america isn't even a crowded nation in the grand scheme of things. We need these farms, not only are they good for business but there is no denying that they keep people alive. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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Poultry and farms are parts of our living and in fact we often see on our table the end-result. Factory farms, should be checked however, by certain government department and monitor if they are complying and a require regulations. There are farms today, that are recognize by WHO as well as the environmental safety board in providing better manufacturing and eco friendly guidelines. I guess this rules should only apply to those operating underground and hides from any taxation concerns. Regards. Rodney of http://caldwells.com/ Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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New Zealand has a very green image and it is well known for having disease free and safe meat. I can't say that factory farming is worse than free-ranged or organic. It creates just as must pollution for the environment as free-ranged and can supply a cheaper option for meat. Saying that factory farming is 'cruel' is kind of silly because don't like animal cruelty then you shouldn't be eating meat. Either you justify how it is moral to raise an animal to kill it or you justify way it isn't and then you condemn the whole meat industry, not just factory farms. The meat that is sold has no antibiotics in it as there is a withdrawal period where farmers cannot give antibiotics before slaughter. Plus, they don't give the same antibiotics as humans have so we cannot become resistant to diseases anyway from eating meat. Overall, it makes not logically sense for farmers to treat animals poorly as they are part of their business and it is their job to look after and raise their flock. So until we all become vegans, don't tell me that factory farming is bad. Farming is farming and more people are eating meat so we need more of it Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
IDK why im doin this tho YE MEM BALLS FORTNITE BALLS IM GAY I LIKE BOYS I KIDNAP AUTISTIC KIDS I LOVE CRISPY AUTISM EDP DID NOTHING WRONG FREE R. KELLY BILL COSBY IS THE BEST COMEDIAN FUCK LIBERALS GAY PEOPLE DONT DESERVE RIGHTS I DONT LIKE BLACK PEOPLE I BEAT WOMEN Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
If your definition of good is that they are cheap and efficient, then yes. They produce a lot of food, which feeds most of the population, and are very cost effective due to the limited space. Without them, the human population would probably have levelled by now, making it incapable of increasing, so it has technically given life to many throughout the world. If it were used in every country, there probably wouldn't be the problem of famine, but many countries don't have the resources, organisation or money to be able to use this. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
People often argue how factory farm produce cheap food, but those cheap food were made with cows that feed on chemical and antibiotic, and will eventually create many long term diseases. However people often forget what really affect our health is diet and exercise. A good diet and exercise can decrease the chance of getting heart disease, cancer, liver breakdown, diabetes, etc. Even if people are not eating meat from factory, they are still not going to be really healthy because normal american's food pyramid were complete upside down. They consume diary and butter the most, meat and bread the second, and vegetable and fruit the least. People who live in city or work in business job tend to exercise less, and that is also one reason people who live in city are suffering long term diseases. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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That is an invalid argument because you can get sick from anything. Girls get sick just going tanning. You can get sick because someone breathed in your oatmeal. E. Coli can get spread easily anyway; it isn't just factory farming that causes it. Side: Good- Cheap and Efficient
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Yes, you can get sick almost anywhere. But factory farming creates not just diseases, but "superbugs," highly evolved, antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose a real threat to human health. Of course factory farming doesn't cause sickness-- it just makes it exponentially more dangerous. http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Sure you can get sick from anything but if someone is coughing and sneezing do you get in their face no you move away. So if we have factory farms that pollute or water and pose diseases do we allow it or remove it. Again Weldon you seem to make statements that you do not support but only your (cheap) alternative to food. Next time you want to eat just throw it in the toilet first. I will give you the food. It will be cheap but eat it all as you have little concern where it comes from. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
Factory farming is very cruel. Confinement to the point at which suffocation is normal. Many animals never touch the ground or see direct sunlight. They cannot behave in natural ways: e.g. chickens cannot spread their wings or peck the ground, pigs cannot root or nest. The extremes are truly horrible. Chickens are bred selectively and genetically modified until the birds cannot stand up and their bones cannot support their weight. Battery hens are crammed into tiny cages and to stop them doing damage when they attack each other (as they inevitably do in such unnatural conditions) their beaks and toes are cut off. Roosters are killed at birth by strangulation or asphyxiation in a bag. Pigs, highly social animals, are kept singly in cages they can’t turn around in – and a number of diseases are very common because of the cramped conditions. Veal calves are deliberately and permanently squashed so that muscle growth is inhibited and the flesh is tender. They are fed on an iron-deficient diet so their flesh is pale. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Actually, a vegetarian diet would feed far more people than a carnivorous one due to the fact that it takes four times as much grain to feed the cattle that humans eat than it would take to feed a person who ate the grain directly. If people ate the grain directly instead of filtering through a living animal than we would be able to feed four times as many people off of the grain that was being fed to these tortured souls. So actually while it may appear to be a fast and efficient way of creating food for the masses it is actually wasteful and not to mention highly detrimental to our health. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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I have a much better way and it would lower food cost. Restore the local farms and let them supply the communities. Make it worth while to farm and you will see generations become involved. Food today has skyrocketed because we ship it all over the pace. Florida raises beef but yet little is kept here on store shelves unless its a butcher shop. Corporate food has killed the butcher what is left, our produce is genetically grown and comes from countries all over like Mexico and Argentina. Milk is shipped and already days old before it reaches the shelves. America can feed America we just need to support them and stop supporting factory farms and the cost will lower. The consumer will demand it. It is people like you who will shove anything in his mouth as long as it feeds your hunger that don't stick to their guns and refuse the corporate food. I don't by produce or meat from Walmart as they buy Monsanto grown produce and they have gassed their meats with the same gas that comes out of you cars tailpipe. I shop my local farm stand that grows none treated veggies and I buy meat that is grass fed locally grown. I don't eat preserved or prepared foods as I don't support such operations. All it takes is will power and we could change the landscape but then again we have Weldon. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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There are many reason as to why factory farming is harmful to animals and the earth. The animals are treated extremely unfairly because the factory workers do not care and are working at a fast pace in order to make a greater profit. Every 24 hours in the U.S 90,000 cows and calves are slaughtered. The animals that are killed are raised to be slaughtered, which are treated with hormones to maximize the growth and antibiotics that are injected in them to prevent diseases. Not only do the animals suffer from factory farming but so does the environment, in the aspect that the land is constantly being used and not getting any time to rest to replenish the soil plus to much manure and chemical fertilizers are being used to make land better. http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/ http://www.organicconsumers.org/ http://www.aspca.org/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Industrially produced food appears to be inexpensive, but the pricetag doesn’t reflect the actual costs that we taxpayers bear. Factory farms pollute communities and adversely affect public health, thereby increasing medical costs for those living near such farms costs that are often shouldered by public budgets. Taxpayers fund government subsidies, which go primarily to large industrial farms. Jobs are lost and wages driven down, as corporate consolidation bankrupts small businesses and factory farms pay unethically low wages for dangerous, undesirable work. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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The jobs that are provided are actually nearly as horrifying as what happens to animals. PTSD and mental illness are actually common, and factory farm workers are severely underpaid. The subject is addressed in the following video: http://ffacoalition.org/media/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Hurt public health, drain small communities, abuse animals and pollute the environment. -http://deraj1013.blogspot.com/2008/05/factory-farming-as-bad-for-environment.html Many animals never touch the ground or see direct sunlight -http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Ban_on_factory_farming Health risks to humans are also greatly magnified by factory farming, with epidemics swiftly spread between overcrowded animals and antibiotic resistance encouraged by medicated feed. -http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Ban_on_factory_farming It also erodes topsoil at an alarming rate. -http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Factory farming is bad for our environment, as well as for the animals. The pollution from the factories is going into our air and destroying our atmosphere. The animals are constantly abused, and are always brought up into unfit living conditions and fed artificial things. Another thing is that if one animal gets sick then it could spread to every animal, and if it gets by without someone noticing then it would spread to all the people tha eat the meat coming from that one farm which could even kill people if it is bad enough. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
http://www.preservationnation.org/forum/library/public-articles/factory-farms.html http://cciaction.org/wp-content/uploads/ http://www.scholarsandrogues. - Factory farms should no exist at all, yes meat is being produced at a cheaper price but its being sold harmfully. So many toxins are realeased from these factorys and put out into the societ, aproximatelty 1.4 billion substances that all can cause E.coli.,salmonella. Also it contains all types of metals. Those kind of things are not supposed to be around our food, its way to harmful. Livestock are being fed all sorts of antibiotics that help them grow and make them get fatter to have more meat, but what the factory farmers do not take into consideration is that it harms them and does more worse than good, Meat is starting to kill people and factory farmers still insist on doing what they are doing. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
Read a book called "chew on this", you'll never eat a happy meal again. Factory farms confine 3 week old piglets in tiny cages where they bite each others tails just breathing, which can cause infections. to prevent these infections, factory farms cut the tails clean off. all this, and the piglets would leave their mothers for another 3 months in the wild. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
they have kept these farm animals in small stressful cages, so they can gain more weight.this can easily spread diseases. I am against this and i mean it! how would you feel if you were kept in a small room where you cant move your body around? Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
Kicking!, pushing!, injecting antibiotics!, not enough space to move around!, beating! and slaughtering them in not a humane way! IS THAT WHAT YOU PEOPLE WANT? JUST FOR CHEAP AND FAST SERVICE MEAT! You people don't understand how these animals feel! Shame on you people We say that they are animals but if you think deeply we are also animals that are destroying the beauty god gifted us. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Does it feel right when you eat meat which used to be a innocent animal, trapped in a small place with a million other of its kind. imagine if instead of animals there were humans, every single power in the world would be trying to save them but right now no one even knows of industrial farming. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
Have you seen the images and video clips of factory farming? They are very cruel and disturbing and doesn't want you to buy the meat from there! These factory farms use more than 70% of the antibiotics produced in USA, in addition these animals are innocent and we can't harm then for no reason!! http://gracelinks.org/library/ Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
We have grown beyond the ability to survive without factory farms. However, our dependence on them is a poor reason to declare them "good." In reality, they pollute, they over rely on herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizer, etc, they generate destructive waste flows and run-offs, they crush nature through killing off the bees, they suffocate smaller farmers through patents and lawsuits and intimidations. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Obviously its an awful ordeal for these animals to go through and no it shouldn't happen, however in a world that has a population of over 7 billion and counting it is physically impossible to give these creature the life they deserve and get produce to the demand of humans. It is a cheap and quick. Factory Farming: Bad but Good for being able to feed man kind. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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Factory farming had destroyed our farming community for profits and greed. Little ethical concerns exist as they promote both medical and ethical concerns. Its all for the corporate dollar and need to be over regulated just as the local farmer has been for years. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
What would you do if you were a cow? THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
I want to be realistic. With the current world population we just can't go back to nothing but small independent farms and still have enough food for everyone. But with that said, it's our factory farming which is doping us with antibiotics and hormones, triggering mass poisonings and contamination outbreaks, forcing livestock into unnatural conditions, warping geographies, and in fact making small independent farming next to impossible. Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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animal cruelty is a big problem in the u.s. because of fast food restaurants like McDonalds. every day about 67,680 cows per day!! This makes it bad to eat at fast food restaurants. And if that didn't make you think that was bad they put chemicals to make you crave it.This chemical is called carrageenan Side: Bad - Pollution and Cruelty
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