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Factory Farming Pollution

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We must unite to shut down. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that confined farm animals generate more than 450 million tonnes of manure annually 3 times more raw waste than generated by Americans. The Environment Farm Sanctuary One major problem with factory-style livestock production is that it leads to considerable greenhouse gas emissions and not just because the digestive processes of ruminant animals produce methane. Factory farming pollution . All of this goes to say factory farm is a big contributor to carbon emissions of our planet which further worsens global warming. Livestock farms generate about 70 of the nations ammonia emissions plus gases that cause global warming particularly methane. The animal waste often contains undigested antibiotics which are given to the livestock to prevent the spread of disease in their confined living conditions. Factory-farmed animals produce more than 1 million tons of manure every day. The science behind global warmin...