ENV 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Range, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, Intensive Animal Farming

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENV 1301
• Professor: Marcum

Document Summary

Each person eats about 1lb of meat a day. Feedlots (factory farms)= also called concentrated animal feeding operations (cafos: huge warehouses or pens designed to deliver energy-rich food to animals living at extremely high densities, over of the world"s pork and poultry come from feedlots. Debeaked chickens spend their lives in cages; us farmers can house hundred of thousands of chickens in such conditions. Illegal to take undercover pictures, violation of first amendment. The benefits: greater production of food, unavoidable in countries with high levels of meat consumption, like the us, they take livestock off the land. 90% of our grains are fed to livestock. Aquaculture raising aquatic organisms for food in a controlled environment ( fish farm )