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: At egg-producing CAFOs, male chicks are ground up alive while egg-laying hens have large portions of their beaks removed. Piglets are castrated without any painkillers and their mothers are confined in spaces so tight they can’t even turn around. In feedlots, animals such as cows designated for meat consumption are crowded together in tight, filthy pens before they are shipped away to slaughter. Monocultures, also known as monocropping, involves huge swaths of land dedicated to a single crop. Wheat, corn, and soy are major crops in the United States. 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.