Pastoral Food Vs Industrial Food Chain

“ About 10 billion land animals in the united states are raised for dairy, meat, and eggs each year” (Dosomething.org). Animals and crops are raised and grown by following either the industrial food chain or the pastoral food chain. When looking at the pastoral and industrial food chain, there are differences and similarities that demonstrate the benefits and cost of each food chain, concluding that the industrial food chain is more costly.
The industrial and pastoral food chains follow two separate ideas of how food is agriculturally farmed. Science is a huge role in one of the differences between these two food chains. In industrial farming farmers use genetically modified seeds where corn is the most popular genetically modified seed. These genetically modified seeds have helped improve the health of crops by fighting against insects that pose a potential harm to the crops. Genetic modifications have been made to corn seeds to also stop corn from reproducing on its own because if it reproduces on its own, it will put seed companies out of

For the industrial food chain, farmers can lose money especially when growing corn. The cost of buying beef in the store is that it is probably corn fed beef and corn fed beef have a higher percentage of saturated fats that is posing as an unhealthy diet in America. Not only is this a cost to our own health, but the industrial way of farming with feed lots and a high corn diet poses a threat to the cows life. Corn can provide a high amount of acid in cows and when the pH level of the acidity in the cows reaches a certain point, it because harmful (King Corn). The true cost of corn fed beef is cheaper than pastoral beef. Corn is subsidized by the government therefore it keeps farmers feeding their cows corn and when the cow is turned into beef patties and sold to McDonalds or Burger King, the price of the hamburgers are