Local Sustainable Food Chain PSA
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- You might think that all of your food comes from a farm like this, but that is not true. Food comes from many different farms including the industrial farm and the local sustainable farm.
- Industrial farms are where most of our food comes from. These farms use harmful chemicals to make their crops grow which can damage the environment. Also most of this food is processed with synthetic chemicals and is very unhealthy.
- As you can see, they treat their animals even worse! These poor cows live sad, painful lives, crammed in and doomed to be sick for their entire lives until they are slaughtered. No animal deserves to live like this, but this is how the industrial farm treats them.
- However, on a local sustainable farm like this one cows live good, happy lives, eating grass like they naturally should and staying healthy. Not only does it make them happy, but their meat is more tasty and healthier for the person eating it.
- One visitor even said, “Over and over again, I was struck by how healthy their animals were - all without a single ounce of antibiotics or chemicals,” (Pollan 195).
- The local sustainable farm does not use the dangerous chemicals that the industrial farm uses so our farming does not ruin the surrounding ecosystem and threaten the lives of other animals.
- Farming this way also helps the farm land as one man said, “One type of farming had destroyed the land. Now another type of farming was restoring it,” (Pollan 187).
- Clearly, the local sustainable food chain has many benefits over the industrial food chain. It treats its animals nicely, it doesn't harm the environment, and the food is healthier and more tasty.
- “Feeding corn to steer changes the chemistry of the rumen, making it acid and causing a kind of heartburn that in some cases can kill the animal, but usually just makes him sick. Cattle with acidosis stop eating, pant and drool, paw and scratch their bellies and eat dirt,” (Pollan 72-73).
- Rather than buying from the industrial farm you should get your food from a happier place, a local farm.
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