Modern farming methods

• Food production efficiency can be improved by:

  • high protein foods to boost growth rate
  • shortening food chains
  • limiting wasted energy in livestock
• Intensive farming keeps animals in pens or cages to limit their movement, and energy waste
• Intensive farming is bad because animals close together are more likely to get sick, heating uses electricity and it is unethical to keep them in stressful and unhealthy conditions