What are the advantages and disadvantages of conventional farming?
I’m going to very much simpify this, instead of going into great detail. Advantages: Currently the ONLY way to feed the masses of people on our overpopulated planted. Yes a few people can afford to buy organic, truely humanely raised animals from small farmers like me. Yet this is not reality…reality is that is takes the huge mono crop farms to raise food for people. Disadvantages: Goes totally against nature (nature hates mono crops, whether they are plant or livestock), which causes major problems in terms of disease, pest. If you have a mono crop, is it VERY prone to attacks by disease, and pest. That dramatically increases the need for pesticides, or medication to be used. With the movement of farms to become titanic in size, and the removal of livestock it has ment that farmers have turned to chemicals to fertilize the crops, instead of manure. These chemicals are making our drinking water toxic, and causing serrious problems in the oceans.
