Factory+Farming

[|Cattle Farming] =What is a 'Factory Farm'? = Industrialized farms aren’t beneficial to our environment in any way. Not only do they add to the pollution of our soil but also fill our lungs with pesticide residue, and chemicals that eventually cause cancer. On a factory animals are raised in huge numbers on very little space. These animals are treated with antibiotics so they don't get sick and with growth hormones so that they grow faster and bigger. There's no grass or other vegetation for the animals to eat and they get fed with artificial feed. The animals do not get to ever leave their stalls unless they are sick or ready for slaughter.
 * Factory Farming is our modernized version of family farming. It is seen to be a more productive way of farming the animals.

Americans buy about ninety percent factory farmed produce. This food has been treated in some way during the growing part with chemicals in one form or another. Even then it doesn't stop. When the food gets processed more chemicals are added. These include flavorings that enhance the way a food tastes, preservatives that extend a food’s shelf life, and artificial color****ings that change the way it looks. Dietary suppleme****nts are also used to enhance nutritional content, and packaging is even considered an indirect [|food additive]. It seems like big farms concentrate on quantity of food rather than the quality of it. A lot of times a factory farms cut corners on the quality of animal feed, which affects the quality of the meat. Sometimes the farm workers are not educated and do sloppy work. That can cause problems during processing and distribution and affect our food safety. We have been reading a lot in the paper lately about E. coli in vegetables or mad cow disease in beef.** According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 325,000 people are hospitalized for food related illnesses and 5,200 die in that same time period. Bacteria that cause disease are called pathogenic bacteria. Bacteria can cause diseases in humans, in other animals, and also in plants. Some bacteria can only make one particular host ill; others cause trouble in a number of hosts, depending on the host specificity of the bacteria. The diseases caused by bacteria are almost as diverse as the bugs themselves and include food poisoning.**
 * [|How safe is our food?]