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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Their effects on the ecosystem
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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Their effects on the ecosystem Bryan Tangney 696781 Environmental Studies 148 Dorothy Daley October 10th 2001 You have just bought the house of your dreams on an 80-acre tract of land in beautiful Northeastern Kansas, and you are thinking that life is perfect. But soon your life is being taken over by a repulsive, intruding smell. This smell is emanating from a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations), which is a corporate farming operation that houses thousands of hogs in a confined area. CAFOs have many disadvantages, such as air pollution, water pollution, decline of the independent farmer, and animal cruelty to name a few. CAFOs cause a massive amount of damage to an area's ecosystem. The damage is done in the form of fecal waste. These hogs are alive for one basic reason, to eat in order to grow large and be slaughtered. This cycle causes a hog to produce a...
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