Factory Farm or, Confined Animal Feeding Operations: A large industrialized farm; especially a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost. Merriam-Webster The complex reality in the manner in which we- as an …
Factory Farming Facts and Statistics More than 80 percent of pigs have pneumonia (lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus) upon slaughter. Over 70 billion animals are killed in factory farms, worldwide, each year. 9 …
Farm Bill Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress passed the first Farm Bill during the Great Depression in 1933, with a goal of keeping food prices fair for farmers and consumers; to ensure adequate food supply; and to protect and sustain the countries vital natural …
American Patriot Farmers Most independent small and medium sized family farms must resort to Contract Farming, where they sell their equipment, land, and services to larger factory mega farms that own and control their family operation. These small farms find it difficult to compete …
Once a bastion for knowledge and hope for a better future, with greater opportunities and economic mobility, the modern American education system now suffers in obscurity on the world stage as newer countries find fresh and progressive ways to educate their children in this …
AMERICAN STUDENT INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS A constant point of contention, focus, and debate within the American political and education system are the standardized test scores that rank students in countries around the world based on a specific set of standards according to their level of …
Student Loans/Debt After the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, where the first generation of young, college-educated adults used their newly acquired knowledge to refuse the governments corruption and the illegitimate war in Vietnam, coincidentally or not, the price of higher education slowly increased and …
Obesity in America Life as a human being in the modern world is riddled with sociocultural roadblocks and biological mechanisms that corrupt our judgment and actions towards the negative aspects of existence on Earth, which make it difficult to navigate the planet safely without …
Consequences and Risks of Obesity If Americans continue to weight gain at the current rate, it will lead to six million new cases of diabetes, five million cases of heart disease, and 400,000 cases of cancer within the next two decades. Obesity related health …