Thursday, May 1, 2014

Fast Food Nation Research Report Entry 9



The General subject that my research project is going to be focused on is factory farming also known Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFOs.   The main focus of the project is going to be the effects the pollution from factory farming has on the environment (air, water, soil) including global warming, the health effects it has on workers at these farms, and the people in the surrounding communities around them.   I plan to argue for the need of these factory farms to find better ways to control all the pollutants they are emitting into the environment from animal waste and the chemicals they use.  For the government to tighten regulations on these CAFOs and enforce them rigorously as global warming is a problem that is only getting worst as time goes on.

So far I have turned to Google as my main source of information.  A lot of the websites end in .org and seem to be credible sources.  They are sharing information trying to keep people informed rather than making up their own bias views. 


Has a large amount of information on it covering all the aspects of food.  It provides information that the consumer would never get if they didn’t look for it.


A few quick facts that could possibly be turned into topics for different paragraphs for the research paper.


Real world occurrences


More helpful information and ways you can help.
http://www.unmc.edu/rural/documents/cafo-report.pdf
http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pdf/publications/EPA_State_Failures_Regulate_CAFO.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367646/
http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/


          If my topic is approved I will start planning out how I will structure my paper and also make a time line and start getting stuff down on paper to make sure I ‘am not waiting until the night before to write this.  So far I haven’t come across any difficulties with the research process one of the reasons I choose this topic.  The other reason is that I feel strongly about helping keep the environment stay clean.

7 comments:

  1. I like your topic and I would like to find out more about pollutions from factory farming. But in this project I would focus only on how factory farming effects environment or how it effects humans.

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    1. Thanks for your comment I think you may be right

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  2. i believe your topic is a little broad. Like agnieszka said i think u should pick one of the other.

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  3. good topic that topic was one of my choices

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  4. this is a good topic and I wrote about it from the meatrix review. If it effects the environment it effects everyone so I think your on the write track. Just make sure all your info is backed by legit sources.

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  5. Your topic sounds very interesting and I would love hear see how this goes

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  6. Good choice for topic because it isn't something too many people would think about. Good luck

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