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.

Yes but it still provides a cheap and easy way to give food to our nation. If you have a better way to feed 300 million people you tell me. Are you going to cook for all of us? I don't think so.

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.

The kids can get jobs. They just need to get a work permit, cut all emotional ties with their parents, and build some character so they don't go home crying to their mommies.

Water is being called the "Blue Gold" of the 21st century no only for its value to the physical survival of humans, but because of its significance to societies everywhere in the world. Bottled water is morally, ethically, and even economically insulting. Water is a basic need of survival; the good thing is that it’s found everywhere. Large business conglomerates take water that can be easily accessed and sell it to people who could get it for free. This is a very low expense venture; hence conglomerates such as PepsiCo. and Coke who bring in an average of around $9 Billion dollars a year in net income are making huge profit that is virtually taken out of the economy and into the pockets of the CEO’s and executive officers of the aforementioned companies. Not only this, but bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year in America alone, after taking up 47 million gallons of oil each year to just make them. Many of these plants leak toxic fluid that gets into the surrounding environment and spreading to other areas. Many of these plants are near rivers, so the chemical waist and toxic fluids get into the river and travel to other nearby places. Consequently, the production of bottles creates air pollution that gets into the atmosphere and raises the CO2 levels in the ozone layer, and contributes to environmentally unnatural and harmful events that take place; acid rain for example. Not to mention that after these bottles are produced, they degrade and seep into the surrounding environment causing mutations in animals and diseases such as cancer. Some try to refute this by saying there is no harm in the production of plastic bottles, but these bottles contain Bisphenol A (BPA) which can cause drastic negative effects to most living organisms (including humans) with even small molecular contact with living cells. And since most bottles aren’t properly recycled and end up in land fills or in different places in the environment, it’s a pretty big deal. So why contribute to economic and environmental injustices by buying bottled water when you can easily get filtrated water straight from your sink? And if you need extra consolidation that your water is clean and purified, you can invest in a water purification system for your own house. It’s that simple.

http://www.mnn.com/

http://www.tappedthemovie.com/

http://www.allaboutwater.org/environment.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/opinion/01standage.html?pagewanted=all