Environmental and Health Impacts: The Benefits Of Small Farms
Industrialized Farms and Their Effects From a newborn infant to a ninety-nine year old person, we all must have food to nourish us and keep us alive. As the population of us has grown so has the food production all around the world which has now made mega farms. Yet, while reading Everything Under the Sun by Suzuki and Hanington , they claim, “ To begin, close to a billion people are malnourished and many more are finding it difficult to feed their families as food prices increase.” ( Suzuki et. al 179). So with all these farms why are one seventh of those people malnourished or struggling? Added on, these larger farms are adding pesticides to these crops for cheaper even though there are endless studies to show that these chemicals are hurting our bodies. This is overall not helping human life in any way. Not only does this have an effect on humans but it has an effect on the environment which creates more problems for humans. Many of these farms are using a large amount ...