Sustainable food production can be
maintained indefinitely because sustainable farmers
do not take more resources to produce food than
they give back.
A reliance on renewable resources
- as well as on symbiotic relationships with nature
and the surrounding community - means that these
farms do not damage the environment, are humane
for workers and animals, provide a fair wage to the
farmer, and support and enhance rural life.
Because sustainable farmers see nature as an ally
rather an obstacle, they are able to produce more
wholesome food while using less fossil fuels (thus
lessening the impact on global warming), and without
using any synthetic pesticides, artificial hormones,
or antibiotics.
Important issues cuase by factory farming?
Growth hormones and rBGH
Both natural and synthetic hormones are regularly
administered to factory farmed beef cattle to make
them grow faster.
rBGH is a genetically engineered
hormone that increases dairy cows’ milk production,
but also threatens their health. Studies have shown
that hormones added to meat and dairy products
may have negative effects on human health.
Antibiotics
Antibiotics used for farm animals, to compensate for un-clean
conditions as well as to promote growth. Increasingly,
traditional antibiotics are losing their effectiveness in the battle against
infectious diseases because of antibiotic overuse which
creates resistant bacteria.
Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering (GE) is the process of transferring
specific traits, or genes, from one organism into a different plant or animal. Much concern has been
raised over the inadequate testing of the effects of
genetic engineering on humans and the environment.
And once released into the environment, these
genetically engineered organisms cannot be cleaned
up or recalled.
Learn more about the problems with factory farming
from Sustainable Table’s Issues section at: www.sustainabletable.org/issues/
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