The connection between inhumane farming methods and environmental degradation
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Inhumane farming is one of the factor for environmental degradation. Farmers now a days use in human farming practices such as forcing animal to eat for the increase in productivity and not only that they are being feed by various techniques which can be considered as scientific and hence natural productivity is going downwards.
Due to this ,animals suffer from various diseases and even humans are not getting hygienic food as natural farming method is not being applied. This kind of situations also spoils the environment due to such abusive methods of farming.
Due to such farming techniques various gases are emitted to the atmosphere and also dumping of animal waste into various water bodies spoils the environment.
Answer:
Some of the basic examples (5) are stated below,
Explanation:
1. Air Pollution: More than 37% of methane is being produced from the farm. Toxic compounds are being secreted back into the environment such as ammonia and sulphides.
2. Deforestation: Farm needs a lot of livestock, hence a lot of places to grow it, and that too clear spaces.
3. Water Pollution: The water used in the factories to process farming needs is in huge amounts.
4. Monocultures: They can affect the basic integrity of the processed food industry.
5. Fossil Fuels: The power to run a farm and all it's processing units separate or otherwise has a huge demand which mainly runs on the fossil fuels.