Title: Intensive Agriculture: Impact on Humans, Animals, and the Planet
Headings: Intensive Agriculture: Impact on Humans, Animals, and the Planet
Intensive Agriculture: Impact on Humans, Animals, and the Planet
What Is Intensive And Extensive Agriculture?
Types Of Intensive Farming
Livestock
Crops
Aquaculture
Sustainability
What Is An Example Of Intensive Agriculture?
What Are The Characteristics Of Intensive Farming?
Disadvantages Of Intensive Agriculture
Environmental Disadvantages
Poor Living Conditions And Hygiene For Livestock
Excessive Use Of Agro-Chemicals
Deforestation
Risks On Human Health
Higher Risks Of Cancer And Birth Defects
The Use Of Chemical Hormones In Food
Possibility Of Poor-Quality Food Products
Traditional Farmers Are Unable To Compete
Intensive Farming Facts
Intensive Farming Alternatives
Conclusion

Content: Achieving these unnatural results requires high degrees of human manipulation. Huge amounts of agrochemicals, including pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, are applied generously to cropland. Intensive farming also requires high degrees of mechanization, from temperature controls in factory barns, to enormous harvesting tractors – these machines replace what was once done by human labor. Waste lagoons on animal farms and high levels of irrigation in intensive crop cultivation are other characteristics of intensive farming. Disadvantages Of Intensive Agriculture
In many ways, the disadvantages of intensive farming tend to outweigh benefits, particularly when it comes to animal products since these are not essential for human health (and especially not in the volumes at which they are currently consumed in places like the United States). Environmental Disadvantages
One of the most troubling environmental disadvantages to industrial agriculture is its contributions to climate change. Globally, agriculture is one of the largest drivers of anthropogenic climate change, accounting for around twelve percent of total emissions, and nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions. Industrial crop production hampers the ability of soil to act as a carbon sequester, ultimately turning it into a carbon emitter. Animal agriculture (most of which is raised intensively) accounts for large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, including 37% of all methane emissions and 65% of nitrous oxide. Beyond climatic concerns, intensive agriculture produces vast amounts of pollution.