Title: Environmental Impact Of Animal Agriculture - WorldAtlas
Headings: Environmental Impact Of Animal Agriculture
Environmental Impact Of Animal Agriculture
Livestock and Its Waste Production
Dairy cows
Cattle
Pigs
Sheep and Goat
Poultry
What Can Be Done?
Waste Generated By Livestock In The United States: Adverse Environmental Impact

Content: Environmental Impact Of Animal Agriculture - WorldAtlas
Environmental Impact Of Animal Agriculture
Activists protesting against animal agriculture. Animal agriculture involves the production of livestock and animal by-products for human consumption. Huge tracts of land and millions of gallons of water are needed to grow, feed, and raise these animals. The environmental impact of this practice is detrimental to the land, air, and water and involves the unsustainable use of fossil fuels. It is one of the biggest contributors to global climate change and deforestation around the world, presenting a great threat to the world’s biodiversity. Some of the facts are astounding. For example, animal agriculture is responsible for emitting 18% of all greenhouse gasses, and this is expected to increase 80% by the year 2050. The production of one calorie of animal protein requires ten times more fossil fuels than it takes to produce one calorie of plant protein. Factory farming is responsible for much more destruction including chemical fumes, toxic runoff, and unsustainable water use (to name a few). The animal waste that runs off these livestock lots pollutes local waterways with pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics, phosphate-rich fertilizer, and bacteria.