CAFOS: COOPERATIVE LEARNING
TIME: 35 minutes
PURPOSE: Connect animal welfare and CAFOs to other impacts to people and planet.
MATERIALS: Printout of the topic primers
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Divide participants into four “expert groups” and assign each one of these topics:
a. Waste Management
b. Antibiotic Resistance
c. Community Impacts
d. Worker Health and Justice
2. Distribute the primer (see below) to each expert group and ask them to read the section that
pertains to their topic.
3. Instruct participants to consolidate the information into no more than four main points as a
group.
4. Rearrange the “expert groups” into “sharing groups.” Each sharing group should have at
least one participant from each expert group. If the number of participants does not allow
for even distribution of group members, groups can have more than one “expert” for a topic.
Activity adapted from FoodSpan Learning’s“Jigsaw for Cooperative Learning: Impacts of IFAP,”
2016, accessed November 11, 2018 http://www.foodspanlearning.org/_pdf/lesson-plan/
unit2/lesson2-animals-lessonplan.pdf
Primer adapted from FoodSpan’s “Industrial Food Animal Production Primer,” 2016, accessed
November 11, 2018 http://www.foodsystemprimer.org/food-production/industrial-food-ani-
mal-production/index.html
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6. Emphasize that while the retail prices of animal products may be lower than they were in
the 1950s, many of the negative impacts of CAFOs, such as pollution and disease, are not
captured in the price tag.
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5. Each expert will share their main points and participants in sharing groups will record this
information on their handouts.