Environmental Effects of the Livestock Industry: The . . . The livestock industry has numerous and diverse impacts on the environment In a cross-sectional study using an online questionnaire, 361 students were asked about their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to the environmental impact caused
New Announcement Offers Hope for Billions of Chickens With G A P ’s new breed requirement and the Better Chicken Commitment, a more humane future for chickens is possible The vast majority of the 9 billion chickens raised for meat in the U S each year—called “broiler chickens”—are bred to grow rapidly to meet demand for cheap, plentiful meat
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Global distributions | Livestock Systems | Food and . . . GLW is now in its fourth version and is a peer-reviewed spatial dataset on the global distribution and abundance of livestock species These data find applications in the fields of food and nutrition security; livelihoods and economic growth; human and animal health and welfare; and natural resources and environment
Factory Farming: What It Is and Why Its a Problem Environmental pollution disproportionately affects lower-income, minority communities who live next to or near factory farms The Food and Water Watch report details air pollution from broiler farms, since chicken manure contains toxins such as ammonia, which causes respiratory irritation and is linked to lung disease
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal . . . Philip Lymbery, author and global CEO of Compassion in World Farming, thinks the danger is serious: “Factory farms are a ticking time bomb for future pandemics,” he says “Hundreds of coronaviruses are in circulation, most of them among animals including pigs, camels, bats, and cats
Industrial Agriculture 101 - NRDC Industrial farms overuse antibiotics, feeding large amounts of the drugs—often the same ones used to treat human illnesses—to healthy animals to help them survive in crowded, dirty CAFOs