MGPO 440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wendell Berry, Complex System, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
23 Jan 2018
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There is a specific regimen feeding the animals to keep them from having diseases : antibiotics. We think we do this because its cheaper: cafo seems cheaper to run than a mid-size farm because of. Graph: (cid:523)(cid:885)% of the farms produce most of p of eggs, 97% produce only (cid:883)-(cid:884)% of the entire p of eggs. Cafo"s: concentrated animal feedlot operations where animals are confined in large n . (cid:498)waste lagoons(cid:499) : looks like a big pond inside the cafo"s efficiency . But we are ignoring something: externality stuff that isn"t on the bs = what we feed to the animals. Creates damage to deforestation, damage water, damage soils/land, damage to wildlife, damage to pathogens, excrements = externality : and we monet)se those and it increases the costs of cafo"s. Labor conditions in (cid:498)farming facilities(cid:499)/ cafo"s are also not super good.
