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VERHEUL, JOHN. “Methane as a Greenhouse Gas: Why the EPA Should Regulate Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Under the Clean Air Act.” Natural Resources Journal, vol. 51, no. 1, 2011, pp. 163–187. JSTOR, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24889698.
Back in 1900, 41 percent of workers in America worked in the agricultural industry. Thirty years later, agriculture made up 7.7 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. The GDP is defined as “the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.” By the 2000’s, the amount of workers in the agricultural industry went from 41 percent to 1.9 percent, and the GDP dropped to 0.7 percent. There was a great shift from family farms, to factory farms, which first developed in the 1940’s. Despite there being less farms, there is drastically more production than before due to large farms with high concentration of animals. “The poultry industry is 98 percent vertically integrated, which means that 98 percent of all poultry produced is bred, owned, butchered, and marketed by giant corporations such as Tyson, ConAgra, [and] Perdue . . . .”(1)
- Quote from Poultry Growers: Canaries in the Coal Mine, Farm Aid News & Views (July 1996) (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy for Farm Aid, Minneapolis, Minn.), http: //www.ibiblio.org/london/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture/msg00358.html.
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