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Despite the wealth of environmental consequences listed above, local US governments tend to support the harmful practices of the animal production industry due to its strong economic benefits. Due to this protective legislature, it is extremely difficult for activists to regulate industry practices and diminish environmental impacts. [72]
The observed adverse impacts on livestock production include increased heat stress in all but the coldest nations. [6] [7] This causes both mass animal mortality during heatwaves, and the sublethal impacts, such as lower quantity of quality of products like milk, greater vulnerability to conditions like lameness or even impaired reproduction. [3]
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Agricultural productivity (including e.g. reliability of yields) is an important component of food security [146] and increasing it sustainably (e.g. with high efficiency in terms of environmental impacts) could be a major way to decrease negative environmental impacts, such as by decreasing the amount of land needed for farming or reducing ...
In The State’s letters to the editor, a reader writes how a new way of producing meat will positively affect the environment. Information literacy, voting and litter are also addressed. | Opinion
Animal husbandry has a significant impact on the world environment. It is responsible for somewhere between 20 and 33% of the fresh water usage in the world, [ 57 ] and livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of Earth's ice-free land. [ 58 ]
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There are many potential impacts on human health due to the modern cattle industrial agriculture system. There are concerns surrounding the antibiotics and growth hormones used, increased E. coli contamination, higher saturated fat contents in the meat because of the feed, and also environmental concerns. [50]