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Lesson 2: How Does Your Garden Grow? Meat and Milk Production How is Meat Produced? Corporate Controlled - Huge Corporations Process about 80% of Meat in the U.S. Tyson o Cargill o Swift & Co. o National Beef Packing Co. o Five Rivers o Pilgrims Pride o Butterball o Use of Antibiotics in Meat Production Used to prevent infection in animals. Makes animals gain weight faster. In June 2010: - FDA* urged meat producers to stop using antibiotics Public Health Issue May cause resistance to antibiotics in humans FDA – Food and Drug Administration The U.S. organization responsible for regulating human and animal medications, tobacco, the food supply, medical devices, cosmetics and dietary supplements. Large Corporate or “Factory Farms” Linked to Inhumane Treatment of Animals Food Poisoning Experiences Safety Issues With Meat Production Contaminated food causes: - 48 Million Illnesses 128,000 Hospitalizations 3,000 Deaths Annually Linked to unsanitary conditions in industrial food plants. E. coli bacteria is the most dangerous - Found in ground meat Greeley, Colorado 2009 380,000 pounds of beef were recalled JBS Swift Beef Company Greeley, Colorado 2002 Recalled 19 Million pounds of beef. Con-Agra Multi-state recall August 2011 Cargill pulled 36 million pounds of ground turkey Caused salmonella - Found in chicken, turkey and eggs Caused at least 1 death and 77 illnesses Largest recall in history This strain of salmonella is resistant to anti-biotics Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE) Neurological disorder in cattle Results from feeding cattle meat-andbone meal from infected animals In 2010, 184,500 cases of mad cow disease were reported Three cases were identified in the U.S. The Meatrix www.themeatrix.com How is Milk Produced? Produced by a handful of multi- billion-dollar companies. - Many are European owned Mega-dairy farms Dean Foods owns 40 brands of dairy - $10 billion dollars a year Own Silk and Horizon dairy in Colorado Dairy Farms Can Give Cows Artificial Hormones - Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) GMO Artificial Hormone Artificially increases milk production by 10-15%. Antibiotics Highly concentrated feed Most Cows Raised on Factory Farms No grass May have 20,000 cattle on a farm Close quarters Life Expectancy is only 3-4 years - Compared to 20 years raised in a pasture FOOD FACTS Dairy cow farms dropped from 648,000 in 1970 to 75,000 in 2006. Total dairy cows fell from 12 million in 1970 to 9.1 million in 2006. The average herd size rose from 19 cows in 1970 to 120 cows in 2006. Milk production doubled from 9,751 in 1970 to 19,951 in 2006. - Average milk production per farm increased twelvefold.