Factory Farming Issues

To continue living on the planet climate change must be addressed. Animal agriculture is the primary cause of climate change, due to its mass-producing factories, growing excrement, and overruling corporations. Industrial agriculture has managed to release massive amounts of toxins into the water systems, food, and environment. All of this contamination is taking a big toll on the planet. Continuing to live in this matter will only devastate the planet and its citizens’ health further. For a wholesome life, the citizens must press leaders to end factory farming.
The main reason to end factory farming is simply that of manure. Animal manure is one of the most damaging contributors to climate change. The nation is facing this dilemma due to the poor management of its livestock. Factory farmers are unreasonably mass producing goods which make it hard for the ecosystem to keep up. Industrial farming also holds numerous animals in one place, creating large amounts of waste, making it impossible to manage. “Every minute seven million pounds of excrement is produced by animals raised for food in the U.S. This does not include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction, backyards or in the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the

U.S.”(Cowspiracy) It's clear that this overflowing amount of manure isn't suitable for our planet.
Another defect of animal manure is that it contaminates our water and ecosystem.

“As soil fertility declines due to repeated tillage and other industrial practices, farmers began using more synthetic nitrogen. Synthetic nitrogen is leaching into and affecting groundwater. A 2015 study from environmental science and technology letters, linked nitrate from fertilizers to uranium contamination of drinking water from to major US aquifers." (Poncavage, Joanna) Consuming this uranium-contaminated drinking water gives risk for kidney damage and cancer. Not only water, but food gets directly affected due to the number of fertilizers used on subsiding crops with synthetic nitrogen. All determining that our foods are considered

unsafe.
Not only are factory farms destroying the planet and making one’s food threatening, but it's undeniably inhumane. “Animal cruelty issues certainly offer an extremely compelling reason to oppose factory farming.”(Vrbicek, Andy) Animals continuously get exposed to high levels of toxins, which create the ideal condition for diseases to spread. Adding more to their health problems, farmers give animals this unnatural sickening diet. It is cruel how these animals live and all to be killed. “More than 6 million animals are killed every hour.” (Cowspiracy) It is clear that citizenry has invaded the world in which once animals used to roam around freely. Today, the nation has done nothing but take animal lives, leave them to be raised in factories without proper care, and eat them. It is disturbing how animals are the ones paying for one's irresponsibility.
Surprisingly, many people are still unaware of the damaging effects of factory farms. Their unawareness has led them to believe that transportation and fossil fuels are the leading cause of the environment’s destruction and climate change. This misconception is due to the power-hungry corporation's influence. These powerful businesses delegate what is released by the media and what the government regulates. These organizations are not only controlling what one eats but the laws, which is causing great harm to the planet. However, in order to stop providing these corporations with so much power over the nation’s lives, one should be enlightened with the severity of this problem and become more conscious of their actions.