Question

We rely on the health of ecosystem for our general well being - They provide our food, our
water, even our air. Scientist believe that the services provided by our ecosystems, if properly
valued, would be worth around trillions of dollars every year. Despite this the survival of countless
plant and animal species around world is currently threatened. A range of factors is responsible for
this extinction crisis but the most critical component is factory farming.
Factory farming in which a lot of animals are kept in a small closed area called a farm to
produce large amount of meat, eggs or milk may appear to be human friendly but it creates a range
of pollution problems, fragmenting and even destroying natural habits. This can drive out or even
kill the animals and plants that inhabited them. The range of waste from factory farm can leak into
water courses and at times leaves vast" dead zones", where few species can survive. Some of the
nitrogen also becomes gaseous, turning into ammonia, which creates problems such as water acidi-
fication and ozone layer depletion
The deliberate destruction of natural habitat is also significant driver bio-diversity loss. Be-
cause the farm animal needs to eat a lot, we need a lot of land to grow the feed. In fact, around one
third of the world's crop lands are already given over to growing animal feed.
Unfortunately, because space for crops is already at a premium, we are seeing a push for
land in parts of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, including environmentally valuable grass-
lands and forest.Between 1980 and 2000, an area over 25 times the size of the UK was created in
the developing world for new farmland - over 10% of this was at the expense existing tropical
forest. The scientist who discovered this concluded that intensive agriculture, rather than family
farms, was the dominant driver. The problem is not confined to just some tropical regions, pres-
sures of crop lands around Europe is leading to the disappearance of a wide variety of plants and
animal.
As we also know that our climate gets affected by many factors. factory farming produces
around 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than what the global transport sector
produces. These emissions are intensifying climate change and making certain habitats increasing
hostile to live in. According to the conversion on Biological Diversity, climate change may affect
plant growth and production by promoting the spread of pests and disease, increasing exposure to
heat stress and changing rainfall pattern and encouraging soil erosion due to stronger winds.

Questions:
(a) How is factory farming useful to mankind?
(b) Why does the writer say factory farming is more harmful than the transport sect
(c) How does factory farming put pressure on land?
(d) how does climatic change affect plant health?
(e) Explain-'space for crops is at a premium'.
(f) What are dead zones?
(g) What are the effects of incresed limits of ammonia?
(h) What is Climate change according to you?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) factory farming is arguably one of the cruelest inventions.

Answer 2

Answer:

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Explanation:

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