CONTEMPORARY
OUR IMPACT
by FOOD MATTERS
Author: James Colquhoun
Impact means, about
factory farming and
cattle, the consequences
which are mainly the
unpleasant results of do
factory farming and
cattle as part of the
everyday living. And this
title says OUR IMPACT,
because all those
unpleasant results are
caused by humans and
only by humans. When
here and now, humans is
referred to all those
having or showing
qualities, as rationality or
fallibility, viewed as
distinctive of people
according to Collins.
The biggest impact we have
on the face of the planet
right now would have to be
through agriculture. It's
clear when you’re fying on a
plane and looking out the
window that most of our
interaction with the face of
the planet, aside from
housing, is via agriculture.
This is actually having a
huge ecological impact on
the environment. The main
degradation is through the
process of factory farming
and intensive commercial
agricultural practices, such
as monocropping. But
today, let's focus specifically
on factory farming Most of
the agricultural produce
and arable agricultural land
in the US, Canada, and most
of the world, is used to
grow broad acre
monocrops such as corn,
wheat, and soy. And a large
percent of these crops is
used to feed animals in
factory farm
environments.These
animals become the
majority of the meat that we
see in fast food outlets and
in supermarkets worldwide.
This type of agricultural
practice is causing a huge
strain on the environment
as well as on the
ecosystems which are
connected to it. We even
have situations where the
runoff from these factory
farms and monocrop
practices are causing huge
dead zones in the Mexican
gulf and in other regions
around the world. This is
reducing the oxygen in the
water in that area and
causing a large kill-off of fish
species in the water.