ENVIORNMENTAL IMPACT

of Meat Production

Increase In America

HOW MANY CHICKEN DO YOU NEED?

The number of the

chickens here are

consumed in America

in one year time.

Many of these

prepared for your table

will become waste in

the very lands that

produce the chickens

you have eaten and are

feeding to your family.

Progressive Increase

Animal factory farming contributes to

consumption of freshwater and fossil

fuels which alone with methane, and CO2

emissions from decomposing feces and

impacts global climate changes more

than one quarter of total freshwater.

Livestock Environment And

Development Livestock industry is one of the largest

contributors to environmental

degradation worldwide and the

modernizing of raising animals for

food contributes on a ―massive scale‖

to the AIR and WATER with pollution

Scottish salmon farm:

To increase Bottom line (to increase fish supplies) fish farmers cram as many fish as possible into small enclosures alone with the injuries of the fish –parasitic infestations, and diseases are common.

To keep fish from dying in these horrible conditions

farmer lace their food with powerful chemical and antibiotics and you ingest when you are eating your favorite fish.

PETA

Modern Farming Uses Water

Supplies

Irrigation pumps

withdraw more

water than the local

governments

Seven-five percent

of water usage

goes to farming for

factory-farms

Deficit 475 billion

gallons a year

Defatting process

waste water

Increases water

waste

Scalding tanks

contain blood dirt

and manure eight

liters of waste

water per bird from

the overflow

Hide Removal

Environmental waste

Blood and tissue produced from hide

removal fall on the floor –External

contamination of the hide with dirt and

manure is secondary source of

pollutants waste load, is increased

with clean-up operations: water

trough's, rain. snow water and pen

wash downs.

Live stock Increasingly

SeriousLarge –scale live stock operations

provide most of the meat and meat

products consumed around the

world—consumption that is growing at

a record pace and is projected to

double by 2050

Professor Harold Mooney of biological

science at Stanford.

Biological Diversity

Variability among living organisms from

all sources including diversity within

species between species and of

ecosystems(biodiversity) Seeing a

tremendous environmental problems

with these operations land

degradation, air and

water pollution to the loss of

biodiversity and the developing world

is vulnerable to the effects of these

operations

Environmental Impact

“A new study in the American

Journal of Agricultural Economics

explores the effects of pollution

from livestock facilities on infant

health and finds that production is

associated with an increase in

infant mortality.”