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Mass Food Production

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Mass Food Production

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  1. Mass Food Production

  2. Introduction

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  5. Objectives • Students will understand how mass food production negatively impacts society • Students will be more conscious  of the unethical practises of mass food production • Students will not only become more aware of the global importance of this issue but also will be encourage to help solve the issue

  6. Issues • Ethical issues • Environmental issues • Economical issues • Health issues

  7. What is factory farming? Factory farming is a term referring to the process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density, where a farm operates as a factory • http://wccpress.com/?cat=146

  8. What is Crop Production? Large areas of land with fertile soil are exploited as corporations designated the land to cultivate cash crops http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/02/20/RICE_wideweb__470x310,0.jpg

  9. ETHICAL ISSUES

  10. Efficiency and profit animal welfare Horrible environment Inhumane practices http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/the-horrors-of-factory-farming.html http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/05/the-difficult -lives-and-deaths-of-factory-farmed-chickens/

  11. VIDEO

  12. How is this a Global Issue?

  13. ENVIROMATAL ISSUES

  14. Deforestation http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/photo-essays/western-ghats-under-threat-part-2-open-cast-mining/ http://cadreonepublishing.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/feedlots-near-greeley.jpg?w=440&h=330

  15. Energy http://www.sevengroup.co.uk/news_images/houghtons.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4577624447_f17da7b864.jpg

  16. Biodiversity http://www.narc.org.np/images/sunaulo_sugandha.jpg http://marinebio.org/i/biodiversity2.jpg http://www.vegkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ge-rice-threatens-biodiversity.gif

  17. Fertilizers & Pesticides http://www.supplierlist.com/photo_images/187839/Glyphosate.jpg http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/features/global-warming-and-other-scare-stories.php?ssid=8

  18. How is this a Global Issue?

  19. Global warming http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/climate/preparing-for-adapting-climate-change-jul07/images/earth.jpg

  20. ECONOMICAL ISSUES

  21. FACTORY FARMS • Few workers • Unemployment • Profits sent out of the town http://www.realbollywood.com/2011/01/unemployment-negatively- impacts-future-salary.html

  22. Family farms • Provide jobs for members of the local community • Purchase supplies from local businesses • Economic health • http://www.ediblesadvocatealliance.org/sustainable-learning-journey-blog/?BBPage=1

  23. What is happening to family farms? • 330 farmers leave their land every week. • Tyson Foods http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/organic/tyson-foods-lied-to-consumers- about-drugs-used-to-raise-their-chickens/

  24. How is this a Global Issue?

  25. HEALTH ISSUES

  26. Misuse of Pharmaceuticals http://www.weightlosstips.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/animals-with-growth-hormones.jpg http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/supercow08.jpg

  27. Excrement from animals http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/general/images/airpollution.png http://www.svsu.edu/mathsci-center/uploads/science/TRearth/Media1/water-pollution.JPG

  28. Food safety ”QUANTITY over QUALITY" http://www.interestingscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mad-cow-disease.jpg

  29. How is this a Global Issue?

  30. SOLUTIONS • RESPONSIBLE CHOICES • DONATION -PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) • http://www.ciwf.org.uk/farm_animals/pigs/swine_flu/default.aspx

  31. CONCLUSION

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