Every year we hear “How are we going to feed the nine?” In case you have lived under a rock, “the nine” is an expression used by farmers and agriculturist to refer to the expected nine billion people who will be living on earth by 2050. Many solutions have been devised in the past century to increase production of animals and plants for food, for the majority of the history of farming people usually practiced subsistence farming. Subsistence farming is when a family only grows enough plants and animals for themselves. Then society moved towards commercial farming, where only a few large farms produce enough food for everyone around and export food to other countries. This corporate and commercial, has been successful until now. Now that there …show more content…
One Important issue was the cleanliness of our meat in the supermarkets. A deadly form of E. Coli called E. Coli 0157:h7 has been able to thrive in the rumens of cows because farmers are feeding cows corn, which is much more acidic than what cows are naturally designed to eat, which is hay and clover and is passed along into the meat and into the soil when the cows defecates, which with nitrogen runoff can be transported to the plants. Barbara Kowalcyk, a food safety activist who is trying to pass Kenin’s Law. In 2002, Kevin’s Law was introduced as the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in an effort to re-establish USDA’s authority to enforce HACCP performance standards (Kevin 's Law). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes that this new cultured meat potentially may be healthier for people because this meat will be produced in a sterile lab environment without the harm from deadly pathogens that are present in today 's commercial meat farms. Aside from cultured meat being cleaner for humans, it is predicted to be cleaner for the environment as well over the commercial farms. Globally agriculture produces the second highest amount of Greenhouse Gasses behind electricity and heat (GHG). Since cultured meat will no longer require the cow or the fossil fuels that are used to …show more content…
No matter what, you guessed it was probably lower than what the answer is. It required a total of 1,799 gallons to produce one pound of beef, and 576 gallons for one pound of pork(How much water to one pound of meat). To put this in perspective a 12 foot round pool that has a depth of 4 feet holds 3,398 gallons of water. It would take 1.88 pounds of beef worth of water to fill up that 12 foot round pool. We call all agree that sounds like a ridiculous ratio of meat to water. Cultured meat on the other hand will cut down on the required meat by 90%. With the droughts in the southwest, specifically California; also in the northwest in Wyoming and Montana the United States should be looking for a some ways to reduce the amount of water it uses. Another resource at risk is the surface area on the Earth. The world is not getting any bigger and the population is foreseen to keep on increasing. In order for the world to sustain this population the people producing the food are going to have to learn to produce more food on less land. Some 788 million acres, or 41.4 percent of the U. S. excluding Alaska, are grazed by livestock (acres used for grazing). A recent study has suggested that cultured meat would reduce land required to produce steaks, burger, sausage, and bacon by 99% (Land required to raise
Imagine living a life without eating anything with an animal product in it. No meat, fish, milk, eggs, honey, not even gelatin. Vegans are people who adapt a lifestyle where they live without any animal based goods; some do this for the health benefits that come with eliminating meats and dairy. Many become vegan as a way to protest and eliminate animal cruelty which is extremely apparent in the meat industry. A vegan diet is based largely on fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and soy. Many people would say this is unhealthy, that a person cannot live like this. Much of this skepticism comes from being misinformed, and under informed about veganism. It is safe to live a vegan lifestyle. On a vegan diet a person can get all the vitamins
...armers’ markets, raise your own cow– the list goes on. These methods are all possible. But speaking as a “run-of-the-mill, suburban citizen”, even after knowing all the ills of factory farming, these methods are not appealing to me. We all like convenience and affordability, which these methods cannot offer AYYYY CITE And that is truly the issue here. The meat that we are getting– that convenient meat that none of us seem to want to live without– is quite frankly grotesque and unhealthy. But we keep eating.
Americans, as a whole, are fat, over-indulged, lazy, entitled humans. As a whole, yes, yes Americans are all of these things. In 2004, Alison Motluk, a freelance journalist who writes for numerous magazines including the New Scientist, The Walrus, and The Economist, pens an article called “Supersize Me: It’s Time to Stop Blaming Fat People for Their Size.” Motluk blames the food industry for increased portions. She blames the food industry for unhealthy, addictive additives dumped into our food. She blames the food industry for easy access to fast food. She blames city growth for making it near impossible to walk to get food therefore, people have to drive to get sustenance. Motluk blames schools for fat children because physical education
Over the past few decades, small and medium sized farms have been taken over by large-scale factory farms. These farms house billions of animals used for consumption each year. The conditions on factory farms are filthy, overcrowded and disease ridden. Animals forced to live out their lives on these farms are subject to extremely harsh conditions, such as mutilation, confinement and living spaces piled high with feces. Not only do conditions on factory farms make life for livestock absolutely miserable, but factory farms are also negatively impacting human health and the environment. The production and sale of meat has become a billion-dollar industry based upon the bloodshed of other sentient beings. With this being the case, at the very least, factory farms need to be properly regulated and companies involved need to be held accountable for their abuse.
Being vegetarian opens up so many doors for people. For those who do not know what a vegetarian is or are confused on what they do or eat let me inform you that being a vegetarian simply means that you go off of plant-based diets. Although there are several kinds of vegetarian diets, it is all based on what type of food you are consuming. For example, a strict vegetarians or vegans avoid all foods of animal origin, including meat, poultry, fish, diary products, and eggs. Many people become a vegetarian for different reason according to the Calorie King he states, “being vegetarian means different things to different people, and people follow a vegetarian diet for different reason including health, religion, and ethical beliefs.”(Deusen p.1)
“The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Scaling to 46 years, human have been here 4 hours, the industrial revolution began 1 minute ago, and in that time, we’ve destroyed more than half the world’s forests.” - Unknown. One major environmental problem in our world is deforestation - what is that, you ask? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, deforestation is the action or process of clearing of forests. Some consequences of this include a large contribution to global warming and climate change (about 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year), loss of biodiversity especially in tropical rainforests, and the extinction of many known or yet to be discovered species. But, through some Debt-for-Nature Swaps, leaving forests
“U.S. Meat Production,” PSR, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, D.C. 2014. Print. Web 1 Apr. 2014.
A bowl of mix greens with fresh cut cucumber and grape tomatoes. Dressed with a fire roasted red pepper vinaigrette. It make a nice basic salad, but it stands on it one as a nice mean starter or lite lunch. What goes in to the growing of all the produce? We start in this world as hunter and gatherers. We did that for hundreds of thousands years. Then we learn how to grow and harvest our own food. Letting us work less to get more food and beginning one of humanities first huge population growth. That was not the last time we change the way we got our food. In the Second World War we discovered from weapon research how to make more effective fertilizers leading to more boatful harvest. Without that discovered the world could have not gotten to its huge population of over seven billion people. Now what is the next advancement in the agriculture going to be?
of miles in space, looking like a dot. He said to a crowd “Look again at that dot. That 's here.
Many people have always wondered why people who had always ate meat their entire lives, decide to become vegetarians. People would presume that they wanted to lose weight, become healthier, or even just to try it out. Several would say non-vegetarianism is healthier and could help your body; however, vegetarians can be healthy too by what they eat and how much they eat of that particular food. Although I eat meat and I’m not a vegetarian, being a vegetarian can help your body in more ways than one and have many advantages in helping your body. Many become vegetarians to remove non-healthy things from their body, are animal lovers, or even religious or cultural reasons.
The developed world’s love affair with local/organic farming (peasant farming as Collier describes it) has decreased food production worldwide because it does not use the land efficiently enough as with commercial agriculture companies. It also requires government subsidies that large commercial farming companies do not necessarily need. By increasing commercial farming, the world food supply will inevitably increase over a short period.
Farmer’s want to know how they are saving the environment, and how they are producing more food, and feeding more people than they were before. If we all work together, feeding the nine will be possible, and even likely. Farmers need to know how much they need, for this process, and know that new ways of farming will help in the long run. People don’t have to change their diets so everyone can be fed. Together, we can feed the world.
925 million people are living today without any breakfast, lunch or dinner. Day after day, they starve without any food. The worst part is that we don’t have enough food to feed the world today so how will we be able to feed the world in 2050 if the worlds population is supposed to grow by 7 billion people?! The world’s population will grow from 7 billion to about 9.6 billion by 2050 and food production will have to increase by 70 percent.
It is ridiculous to imagine that 80% of all of the world’s agricultural land is being used for animal production. These resources could be used to feel millions of hungry/malnourished families (Duden).
As we stroll the aisles of our local supermarkets we see all kinds of food products, but does it ever occur to you how fresh or natural these products maybe. Organic farming prohibits any use of artificial chemicals, growth hormones, or antibiotics in the production of its crops and livestock. Organic farming has existed for centuries, but after the industrial revolution factory farming was arising. Organic farming does not allow the use of any pesticides in its crops or livestock production, but also helps sustain a good economic flow in rural communities. Although there are many benefits of organic farming, there is a lack of credibility some farmers provide within the distribution of their products and some argue that there’s no difference