Title: Industrial Agriculture: What it is and its Environmental Impact
Headings: Industrial Agriculture: What it is and its Environmental Impact
Industrial Agriculture: What it is and its Environmental Impact
What is Industrial Agriculture?
Why is Industrial Agriculture Bad?
1. Pesticide toxicity
2. Water pollution
3. Antibiotic resistance
4. Dangerous consolidation of the agricultural sector
What is the Biggest Problem in Agriculture?
Environmental Impacts of Industrial Agriculture
What You Can Do

Content: Monocropping is highly unnatural and depletes the soil at unsustainable rates, leading to heavy application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides which cause problems of their own. Why is Industrial Agriculture Bad? Industrial agriculture is endlessly damaging toward the environment and all those it seeks to exploit. Not only do many of the major players in industrial agriculture have dark, violent histories, but the technologies employed, and the underlying disrespect for life, results in massive casualties. The industrial agriculture system today is set up to line the pockets of the powerful few industry leaders at the expense of nearly everyone else. Abuse is perhaps the defining characteristic of industrial agriculture and is present at all levels of these operations. Animal abuse is one of the most obvious, despite being hidden behind picturesque marketing materials and “humane” labels, which are doled out liberally and use woefully insufficient guidelines. Abuse of people is common within this industry as well. Workers in slaughterhouses have been known to develop debilitating mental conditions including PTSD, and are routinely exposed to a number of potentially fatal hazards. Field workers are among the most oppressed of any workers in the US and are vulnerable to human trafficking, assault from superiors, and other horrors.