Our Current Food System and Where Meets Come From
Chickens 1. Why does Virgil Shockley (the first chicken farmer interviewed) not want to own a “mega-farm”? 2. All animals produce manure. Why do some people consider the chicken waste produced on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to be a problem? 3. Why does John Ikerd say he wouldn’t call contract growers “farmers” but calls them “producers” instead? Cows 4. What can farmers learn from cows? 5. Why are animals an important part of sustainable agriculture? Why does raising them on pasture create more fertile soil? Food Science Unit 3: Growing 6. Why did Jeremiah Jones not want to raise hogs in a hog house, or confinement facility? 7. Why did Jeremiah and his friend from college not want to “go around each other’s farms”? 8. What does humane treatment mean?
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Question 1
Virgil does not want to own a mega-farm because he fears getting diseases which is a huge loss considering the size of the mega-farm.
Question 2
The amount of manure produced by poultry farmers in large-scale industrial operations is in large amounts in an environmentally sensitive area. The manure is full of nitrogen, phosphorus, nitrogen and arsenic, and other heavy metals. Phosphorus is the problem because it is carried by rain into the dividing Creek, a tributary to the Pocomoke River. The other metals are used as manure to grow the soybeans and corn, fed to poultry but not phosphorus which is carried into the river through rainwater. Thus, residents of eastern Maryland consider manure to be the problem as it pollutes the river through rainwater.
Question 3
John Ikerd calls contract growers “producers” but not farmers because of the magnitude of their productivity in making a living out of their ventures.
Question 4
Cows are economical if farmers adopt native species that can be fed on rotated pastures. Pastures are blends of native species and can take of themselves, and as pastures develop, seedbanks develop. Cows eat select species of seeds t...
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