Conclusions
The practice of factory farming creates unreasonable risk to human health when animal products from these conditions are consumed. The over-employment of antibiotics to compensate for conditions that promote the spread of disease can create drug-resistant bacteria and does not prevent the occurrence of food borne illness. Government ( Read more... )

Part 3
The food industry has argued that the occurrence of food borne illness through contaminated animal products can be prevented through the practice of irradiation. Irradiation is the process of exposing food to high doses of ionizing radiation to kill bacteria and parasites that would otherwise cause food borne illness. Though the process ( Read more... )

Part 2
Many argue that the practices of factory farming does not harm human health because their methods have been approved and the products inspected by US government agencies such as the FDA and USDA. The FDA approves the use of all drugs used on animals, meaning they are safe for animals to use. The USDA inspects food products from animals to ( Read more... )

Introduction/Part One
Animal food products are less safe for human consumption today than they were as recently as 35 years ago. The emergence of corporate agribusinesses, which employs the use of factory farms to generate animal food products, in the past half century has created a large food supply that has lowed prices and raised profits, but ( Read more... )