Cheap Meat? - Take Heart - Christian Vegetarian Association

Cheap Meat?

Raising animals in factory farms might seem the most efficient and cheapest way to obtain animal products; however, once we consider the toll in takes on the environment and on our health, prices don't seem so cheap anymore. In May, a report from a Pew Charitable Trusts Commission, concluded that "confined animal feeding operations," or CAFOs, generate not just huge amounts of meat but rivers of sewage, clouds of contaminated dust and nearly a fifth of all greenhouse gases. Moreover, some bacteria strains such as E. coli bacteria evolve into deadly ones due to the massive overuse of antibiotics.

The solution? To get rid of them and replace them with sustainable farms.

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Factory farms are a big offense to God since they cause unimaginable suffering to God's animals, pollute the environment and sicken people. Getting rid of them and transition to a plant-base diet would honor God and help us be good stewards of Creation.