Page comments Comment by 'Madelyn' on Factory farming: Torture
with a side of pollution Not only are these CAFO's producing
unhealthy conditions for people that work and live near them,
but are also contributing to a wider national health decline.
This is due to not only the copious amounts of antibiotics
pumped into these animals (which make their way into humans,
rendering them ineffective for our own future use), but also is
due to the pollutants such as carbon dioxide. This, as well as
other green house gasses, contribute to global warming as much
(in some counts, much more) than the total use of vehicles
driven in the United states. One more immediate abuse of human
health that is brought on by these factory farms is specifically
found in beef. Red meat has been frowned upon for some time as
being a large contributor to cancer as well as a list of other
ailments. However, current research is showing that it is not
the beef itself, but what is fed to the cow that matters. The
food given to cows in the Uni