The phrase
"industrial livestock" refers to large-scale farming operations where animals are raised primarily for food production. It typically involves keeping a large number of animals in confinement and using intensive methods to maximize output. This can involve practices such as crowded and artificial environments, use of antibiotics, and genetic modification to increase productivity.
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Many more further detailed the destruction being wrought on the environment by
industrial livestock farming and the dangerous effects on human health of eating too much meat.
The state is now poised to address one of the most pivotal topics of our time: animal welfare and protection, from the proliferation of puppy mills to
industrial livestock production.
The decision of many of the Canadian interviewees to eat greener is contrasted with their government's refusal to engage with the issue
of industrial livestock farming and overconsumption of meat, including Canada's misleading reporting of its greenhouse gases emissions.
If the thought of America or the UK going fully meat free seems a bit of a stretch, consider how the popularity of veganism has rocketed in recent years, as people become more aware of the
effect industrial livestock farming is having on the environment, their health and the welfare of animals.
Astarta's high level of vertical integration in industrial cattle farming, own forage supply, as well as accumulated experience of
industrial livestock -LSB-...]
Industrial approaches that increase greenhouse gas emissions and farmers» vulnerability by driving deforestation, using genetically modified (GM) seeds, increasing synthetic fertiliser use or
intensifying industrial livestock production, are all apparently welcome to use the «climate - smart» label to promote their practices as solutions to climate change.
A United Nations «alert» on the growing carbon cost
of industrial livestock farming has underlined the importance of meat - reduction strategies and campaigns such as Meat Free Monday.
Like the food system: we have the expansion of soya into South American forests and wetlands, cocoa in West African rainforests, palm oil in South East Asia and around the tropics,
industrial livestock farming in the Amazon, the overgrazing of fragile grasslands, the clearance of forests and rangelands for crops, pollution of rivers and coastlines with fertiliser runoff, pesticides killing off pollinators vital to agriculture...
Animal welfare advocates, farmers, academics and consumers are disappointed that the government department responsible for draft industry standards for poultry welfare released in late 2017 colluded with
the industrial livestock industry before the release, and failed to meet expectations to phase out battery cages.