Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

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Story” by Jeff Steele Gordon he states that chickens were the easiest to factor farm at that time. “In 1960's America pigs and cows began to be raised on factory farms.” (Nierenburg, 2005) According to Ms Danielle Nierenburg, author of “Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry”, American factory farming has become globalised in the late twentieth century. She states it is still expanding and it is replacing the old traditional practice of farming. “In 1990 factory farming accounted for 30% of world meat production. By 2005 this had risen to 40%.” (Nierenburg, 2005)

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are everywhere. In North Carolina, according to Senate Bill 733 that was signed into law by Former Governor Michael Easley. Senate Bill 733 states that every concentrated animal feeding operation must have a liquid manure system that has 2,500 or more swine; 1,000 or more confined cattle; 30,000 laying hens. This bill helps the North Carolina Department of Environment ...

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expense to buy livestock and to raise them; it was just labor intensive. He started raising chickens in the late 1990’s by using wire cages for his chickens until the produced enough money. At that moment in his farming career he bought chicken coops. He raised the chickens to produce eggs and to sell to local butchers to sell for the meat. About five years ago he was not sure; a big produce company was going to come to him and threaten to shut his farm down if he would not produce chickens for them. He told me that he can remember the day that they came to his door and threaten to shut his farm down. They told him if he did not comply with their requests, that he would be forced out of ...

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