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Factory farming awareness coalition Sonja Huang A. Director for Factory farming awareness coalition B. Based in berkeley C. Industrial animal factory farming

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Outline A. Factory farming basics B. Overview of industries C. Environment D. Solutions

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Factory farming is concentrating animal cages A. No turn around and move B. Substitute V d to substitute sunlight C. Antibiotics

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Basic numbers A. 9 billion Animals are killed for meat, eggs & milk every year in the US (land animals) B. 99% Percentage of those animals are raised on factory farms

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Overview of industries A. Intensive confinement B. Disease from their wastes gases, animals never leave cages C. Overrated population of animals even though is cage free D. What about free-range 1. Must have access to outdoors 2. Not clear definition of what is access to outdoors E. No definition of humane

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Wild caught, A. We are over fishing and fully fished B. For every 1 pound of shrimp, 5 pounds of other sea creatures are killed for it C. Fish farming noe accounts for nearly half of the world’s fish supply 1. Same problem with factory farming 2. Antibiotic

D. Slavery 1. Children forced to work 16 hours days peeling shrimps 2. 90% of shrimp sold in the US is from SE Asia VIII.

Environment A. Animal farming Most destructive industries on the planet B. Eat a lot and poop a lot C. The amount to feed animals is way more than the amount that return as food → inefficient D. Feeding the world 1. If everyone ate half as much meat, we could use that land to grow enough food to feed everyone on earth today, plus extras E. 2 acres of rainforest are cleared for every minutes

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What is the grass feed cow A. Lived a entire life on grass B. Limitations on how many cows can be on the grassland

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Cattle vs no cattle Wildlife services killed 3.2 mission animals in 2015 A. Mostly at the behest of the livestock industry

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Saving water by food A. 2 months of shower water for a hamburger B. Film cowspiracy on netflix or youtube

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Pesticides 80% of antibiotic given the animals to resist antibiotic Farm animals poop produce 100x more poops than the human does Over two thousands lake that is polluted in carolina. Shoot the lake water with animal waste into farms lands. Extreme pollution to the nearby communities A. People think is rain, but bad smell and full of disease

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Clean Air Act A. Not subjected to such regulations

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Manure runoff Clean water act A. EPA does not gather data from animal farming, so cannot enforce

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Eutrophication A. Excess phosphate and nitrogen causes algae to bloom B. Oceanic dead zones

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Climate change A. Nitrous oxide is 300x more potent than co2

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Reduce 75% of greenhouse gas if replacing meat with beans Solutions A. Meatless mondays program B. Easy and tasty 1. www.chooseveg.org C. Tyson is invest in chicken substitute...