Adverse affects of factory farming

I wanted to learn the effects of factory farming so I went to gale and found a good article. One important thing I found was that "the intent of factory farms is to reduce the costs of raising high numbers of the poultry or livestock by reducing the space necessary to contain them." Basically the main purpose of a factory farm is to gain more profit even if it means having negative effects on everything else. Factory farms are not only detrimental to the animals it holds, but everything around it. Factory farms require a lot of local water, eventually diminishing supplies or ultimately polluting them. "A factory farm generates huge amounts of waste; a factory farm housing 10,000 hogs can produce as much waste in one day as a community of 25,000 people." With all this waste comes a lot of polluting because it soil into water systems or in the soil, which eventually will go into water. Furthermore, all the waste and animals in one area posses another very serious problem. The conditions of a factory farm are perfect for diseases to spread and evolve. An example is avian influenza, or the bird flu. "The common practice of providing low concentrations of antibiotics to livestock as a means of increasing their weight gain has been proven to generate resistant types of bacteria that are also capable of causing disease in animals as well as in humans." At one point, this flu could be transmitted to only birds, but because of factory farms it can be transmitted to humans. How could we continue this type of new farming when it creates such problems? We need to change to all natural and local farms. Big food industries don't want you to know this because if you did you wouldn't support them by buying their cheap meat. The only thing factory farms care about profit, obviously they don't care about their animals, the environment, or the health of the people around them or the ones buying their products.
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