Lately, our fooding system has transformed drastically.  70 years before from now intensive animal farming system was just a mere imagination. Due to relative change in human taste and their increasing demand, animals are being farmed quite differently these days. But have we ever thought of the crime we are committing to our mother earth by aiding to this system?

Tens of thousands of innocent beings are being slaughtered daily just for the sake of our taste buds. Millions of breeds of animals are being genetically transformed to have their gene ‘so called desired traits’. But in the process we have left behind dangerous impacts on our ecosystem as if were unseen. Intensive farming system is not only an ethical issue to animal rights but also a blunder for series of ecological disasters. Outbreak of most of zoonotic diseases and death of hundreds of humans in the recent era is also one of the impacts of animal farming system we are practicing.

E.coli outbreak has reported several deaths after first hamburger bourne outbreak in USA (by the strain e.coli 0157:H7). Several other contagious diseases have been transmitted from animals to humans that have resulted in deadly outcomes.

Except all these things, there is another but most important concern for today’s ecological activists. The amount of gases produced by animals is the main reason of global warming as well as other environmental disorders. Every animal produce Green house Gases (GHG) in their normal physiological systems. The green house gases include methane, carbondioxide, nitrous oxide and water vapour.  But the amount that is being emitted has created a whole lot of problem. In intensive farming systems animals are usually fed concentrated feeds that aids in the production, not giving concern to the actual amount of nutrition they require. This creates extensive fermentation of the feeds in the stomach which emit methane, one of the most harmful green house gases. Despite this, all the equipments and methods used in the process of farming generate carbondioxide which further aids in the rise in temperature of earth.

The productive lands that could be used for agricultural based farming, productive oxygen deriving species, are actually being replaced by GHGs emitting living machines. Bare lands, surrounded with herds of animals surviving around harmful gases have not only affected human health but also our mother earth. We are not only blindfolded to the potency of misused resources but also towards the disaster we are creating to our ecosystem.

I hope someday we will be able to count on pros and cons of Animal farming system and help protect our mother earth stepping in right direction.