The Pros And Cons Of Animal Agriculture

Cries and screams of pure agony…and no one doing absolutely nothing. That’s all I remember from the first video I saw of a factory farm in California. I wanted to not believe it at first. I thought it was just a scam from over exaggerated hippies, that don’t put deodorant on because body odor is natural and we shouldn’t care about how we smell, but I deliberately started watching more videos thinking that the truth of it all being just a lie would come out….because obviously the government wouldn’t permit that kind of unethical treatment. Boy was I wrong. The more videos I watched and articles and documents I read, the more I started seeing that this is the reality. That government is helping the livestock industry by passing laws and ignoring

But why do they want to keep this away from the public? The answer is one word, five letters, and two syllables…….MONEY! I started to do more research and started looking more into it and found out that people who eat animal products have a higher risk of getting cancer, diabetes, heart conditions, strokes, and many more health problems and diseases. Also animal agriculture plays a big part of climate change. In the 1960’s it was proven that the average drop or increase in the temperature was -0.02 Celsius, in 2016 the drop or increase was 0.99 Celsius, that’s literally a 1.01 Celsius increase in just 56 years. How does this relate to animal agriculture? Well when the need and/or want for meat started increasing so did the meat industry. The animal agriculture industry causes Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane(CH4), Nitrous Dioxide (N2O) and other greenhouse gasses. Carbon Dioxide isn’t only cause by the animals themselves but also by the process of transporting animals, cutting down forest to create these factory farms and to grow crops to feed the animals in the industry. Carbon Dioxide captures the energy of the sun when it hits the earth which causes the atmosphere to warm