Raising animals for food economics
The farming of livestock is a huge part of our economy in today’s world. It is a massive industry with an even bigger consumer market. It provides a lot of jobs and massive amounts of outputs and inputs. Some employment is in manufacturing, marketing, finance, insurance, transportation, food retail and wholesale within this industry, not just the actual raising of livestock. In 2012 livestock and poultry industries provided 1,851,000 jobs. It provided 346 billion dollars in total economic output, 60 billion in household income, 15 billion dollars in income taxes paid, and 6 billion dollars in property taxes paid. The 2007 Census of Agriculture reported that U.S. livestock sales accounted for 52 percent of the nation’s total market value of products. That’s more then half which shows how important this industry is to our economy and our nation. Not only does livestock greatly affect the U.S. economy but also economies all around the world. Livestock contributes to 40 % of the global value of agricultural output and support the livelihoods and food security of almost 1.3 billion people. Live stock takes up the most land and usually takes up around 80% of agricultural land.
Out of all the world’s countries, the U.S. would save the most by curbing its taste for meat. Due to its very high per-capita health-care costs, the country could save $180 billion if the population ate according to recommended guidelines, and $250 billion if it eschewed animal food products altogether—more than China, or all of the EU countries combined. And this is to say nothing of the number of obesity- and chronic-disease-related deaths that could be averted (at least 320,000 per year), and the accompanying benefits of reducing the level of greenhouse-gas emissions.
http://www.fao.org/animal-production/en/
https://extension2.missouri.edu/mp752
http://www.fao.org/animal-production/en/
My strengths of this piece is I have very good information and facts that help support the general idea of helping the environment. I provide a lot of evidence that helps the reader understand how big of a deal the situation is. I posses a lot of weaknesses in this piece however. Although this was just a quick information piece, I lacked the necessary organization and sentence fluidity. While reading you can obviously notice the choppy sentences and how the lack of correct punctuation ruins the flow. There is no clear thesis because of the purpose of the writing but for an out side reader it would definitely be detrimental to have.
