animals - intense farming

• Intensive farming techniques aim to produce the maximum food product yield from the minimum area of land.
• Intensive farming can also mean keeping livestock in smaller pens with regulated temperatures. this reduces the energy they need for movement and temperature regulation and so maximizes their size and yield.
• the energy that the animals are not loosing can be used to make more biological molecules for growth.
• Animals are often fed antibiotics in their food to prevent infection or diseases. Many scientists think this is leading to antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
• the demand for more meat has resulted in increased intensive farming in animals such as cattle, pigs and chicken.
• Intensive farming has an impact of food security because animal farming wastes more energy because the food chain is longer. it is much more efficient to grow crops so more people can be fed per area of land. IN addition, farmed animals are often fed crops which could be consumed by humans.
• People also have ethical concerns about the conditions that the animals live in. they feel that the animals do not experience a good quality life.