>> These animals are generally under regimens of constant medication
>> due to the tortures involved and their heightened susceptibility to
>> diseases: automated animal production relies upon hormones and
>> antibiotics.  Such systematic cruelty, not to mention the kind of
>> food that results, brings to mind the fact that captivity itself
>> and every form of enslavement has agriculture as its progenitor and
>> model.

> But it is not just the factory, modern type of husbandry that is a
> problem environmentally.  Throughout the world forests have been
> felled and kept from regrowing because of grazing.  Right now
> millions of acres of rainforest are systematically turned into
> grazing land and will never return to forest.

Much of the world's forests are going up in smoke in cook fires.
        - various tv documentaries

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