FNS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, Gestation Crate, Animal Husbandry
4 Feb 2018
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Fns250 week 4 food animal production. Permaculture: collecting rain water in barrels, one plant can help the other plant more efficient. Ecological pest management: planting around other plants (not to be harvested), to attract insects that could harm the harvested crops i. e. ducks on rice plantations, eat the bugs in the water. Intercropping: diversity of plants helps the soil, and thus helping the plant. Domestication of animals: 8000 years ago, people started to domesticate animals this domestication lead to farm animals. Ifap industrial food animal production (biggest food production system: predominant approach to meat, dairy, and egg, 7:1 animal-person ratio, production has been growing, as well as consumption. Cafos concentrated animal feeding operations: ways to raise animals in confined space in most efficient process as possible, with the highest rate of production. Animal welfare and discussion: animal welfare ensured by farmer self-interest (animal husbandry) Industrial food animal production technology enables putting animals into env. where they suffer (confinement agriculture)
