farming
Minimising Intensive energy loss
Intensive farms are profitable
Maximise output by various methods
Specially bred animals for high growth rates
High digestibility diets that can include
growth hormones and antibiotics if needed
Methodology
Wanted :
Maximum output for minimum input
High growth low input
Energy costs money- so waste as little as
possible whether from the animal itself or
the environment in which it is kept
Poultry battery hens
Restricted
movement
High production
diet
Controlled
environment
Pig battery
Restricted
movement
High digestibility
diet
Hormones for
growth added
Controlled
environment
Pig farms - indoor
Many pigs occupy
small space pigs per
square metre
Keep each other warm
Is it ethical??????
Animal welfare????
Animal welfare
Whats more important to you the
consumer
Quality of your food?
Cost of your food?
How the animals you eat are treated?
Do you care?
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Welfare
Ability to perform natural acts
e.g.
Spreading and wings flapping chicken
Scratching or grubbing in soil
pigs/chickens
Preening or rolling in dirt etc etc
Selective breeding
Animals bred for food are bred for slaughter
More growth = more meat = more
ethics
Problems :
Chickens - growth so fast that leg bones break
because they cant support the weight of
muscle put on
Cow unable to give birth to calf that is too big
so kill the cow (and sell carcass) save the
calf worth some money
Management Problems
Enclosed animals disease spreads quickly
Use lots of antibiotics dont tell consumer
Hormone enhanced meat growth hormones
can affect the consumer
e.g. floppy man breasts
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
What you dont know cant hurt you
TRUE
Who or what does it affect??
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