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Intensive farming
Minimising energy loss
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Intensive farms are profitable
• Maximise output by various methods
Specially bred animals for high growth rates
High digestibility diets that can include growth hormones and antibiotics if needed
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Methodology
Wanted :
Maximum output for minimum input
High growth – low input
Energy costs money- so waste as little as possible whether from the animal itself or the environment in which it is kept
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Poultry – battery hens
• Restricted movement
• High production diet
• Controlled environment
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Pig battery
• Restricted movement
• High digestibility diet
• Hormones for growth added
• Controlled environment
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Pig farms - indoor
• Many pigs occupy small space – pigs per square metre
• Keep each other warm
• Is it ethical??????
• Animal welfare????
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Animal welfare
• What’s more important to you – the consumer
• Quality of your food?
• Cost of your food?
• How the animals you eat are treated?
• Do you care?
• IGNORANCE IS BLISS
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Welfare
Ability to perform natural acts e.g.
• Spreading wings and flapping – chicken
• Scratching or grubbing in soil –
pigs/chickens
• Preening or rolling in dirt etc etc
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Selective breeding
• Animals bred for food are bred for slaughter
• More growth = more meat = more £
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ethics
Problems :
Chickens - growth so fast that leg bones break because they can’t support the weight of muscle put on
Cow unable to give birth to calf that is too big so kill the cow (and sell carcass) save the calf – worth some money
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Management Problems
• Enclosed animals – disease spreads quickly
Use lots of antibiotics –don’t tell consumer
Hormone enhanced meat – growth hormones can affect the consumer
e.g. floppy man breasts
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IGNORANCE IS BLISS
What you don’t know can’t hurt you
TRUE
Who or what does it affect??
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