Newsletter joel manning
Industrial livestock farming, also known as factory farming, is an intensive agricultural approach designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. It involves raising high numbers of livestock like cattle, pigs, and chickens in confined conditions at large-scale facilities known as CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). The livestock eat grain rather than grazing on pastures. Industrial farming has significant economic and food security benefits by increasing yields and efficiency at lower costs through practices like confining animals in concentrated areas to make the most of limited land. However, it primarily applies to common livestock animals like cattle, chickens, pigs, and increasingly other animals that are kept in very small areas of land to more easily manage high numbers with increased output.
Newsletter joel manning
- 1. What is Industrial Livestock farming? Article by: Joel Manning ndustrial livestock production, also known by its opponents as factory farming, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production, while minimizing costs. Livestock farming, raising animals as a source of food for people, has undergone a substantial transformation over the past few decades. Production of cattle, hogs, and chickens has shifted from smaller, family- owned farms to large-scale industrial agricultural facilities often known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). As part of that shift, cattle no longer graze on pastures, but instead eat grain. BENEFITS OF INDUSTRIAL FARMING At face value, it is hard to discount the importance of this industry: the direct contributions of livestock farming to the economy are estimated at about 883 billion dollars and this does not account for the services that rely on it, ranging from butchers, retailers, transport companies to feed producers and equipment manufacturers. Beyond its economic value, livestock farming supports the livelihoods and provides food security to MORE THAN 1.3 billion people. Today, it is one of the fastest growing sectors of the agricultural economy. This has been made possible through the increasing intensification of livestock farming practices which have helped increase yields and efficiency while bringing down costs. For example, the practice of concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, means farmers can rear more animals by confining them in concentrated areas maximizing the potential of the land area they have at their disposal. Industrial livestock animals This type of farming primarily applies to cattle or dairy cows, chickens, goats, pigs, horses and sheep but it is also increasingly relevant for other animals such as donkeys, mules, rabbits and insects such as bees which are now being raised as part of livestock farming. These and other livestock are kept in a very small area of land which makes livestock easier to manage while increasing output for a smaller amount of land.