Dr. Paulino: Industrial food chain reflection

Do the risks outweigh the benefits of the industrial food chain?

     I believe that the risks do outweigh the benefits because there are more risks in the industrial food chain than benefits. For example, the new way that farmers started to raise cattle; in the book it states," Farmers gave up raising cattle because, as strange as it might seem, it costs a farmer more to grow feed corn than it costs a CAFO to buy it...Thanks to CAFOs, meat is now so cheap that many of us eat it three times a day,"( pg. 49). This is the benefit of raising cattle on CAFOs, the meat is cheaper and farmers get to spend less money. In the text it also states," But the waste from CAFOs is a huge source of very toxic pollution...The feedlots are also breeding grounds for new and deadly bacteria,"( pg.49). This is the risks of raising cattle on CAFOs, it causes a toxic pollution and in the book it also says that in CAFOs, cattle are forced to eat corn which isn't healthy for them because they are used to eating grass. There are more benefits and risks, such as the one I discussed, but these risks are harming us and our environment, which is not good just to not spend more money or grow more food.