San Diego Unified School District[Company address]

What is soil For example, Factory farming and

overgrazing deteriorates soil quality. Needless

udegradation?
to say, jamming deformed, drugged,

Do you really know how important overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged,

overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated
room is not very healthy for us or our environment.
(Foer, 2016).

soil is? Soil degradation has been the silent coated room is not very healthy for us or our

killer in the agriculture world. It costs us our environment. (Foer, 2016). To break it

land, food, and irrigation. Soil degradation is down, Factory farming is an industrial

the decline in soil quality over time. This operation that raises large amounts of livestock

happens due to several types of erosion, at a time, where the animals are often crowded

pollutants, industrialization, and into pens and are put on a strict diet of chemical

overgrazing/deforestation. engineered food leading them to escape

captivity, or regardless pollute soil with their

waste. And you can say it leads up to

overgrazing because when livestock is released

into the wild, our grass, plants, and other edible

resources to them damage our soil making it

liable to erosion. Foer and several others have

Figure 1 soil quality (ecologic institute, 2013)

Factory Farming taken their stance on what this is doing to our

3

environment and what it will due in the future.

For example, so far in the past 7000 years

weve lost 8 inches of topsoil, weve began to

claim that soil is a non-renewable source

because of how long it takes to regenerate

(1000-10000 years for 30cm of soil.) The

benefit to leaving factory farming in the past is

our animals and pollutants would be better References

contained, and wed have time to think of a
Heikens, N. (1999, 26 Dec). Soil solution.
better solution the other negative factors in the
Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN)
soil degradation conflict.
Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.com
History
Jones, T. (2006, The scoop on dirt. E Magazine
Soil degradation has dated
Vol.XVII, no.5, , 26-39. Retrieved from
back to the new issue of erosion in
http://sks.sirs.com
th
Mesopotamia times. And by the 13
Wilken, E. (1995, Assault of the earth. World
century sedimentation rate was up by
Watch, , 20-27. Retrieved from
six times. Its the most serious topic
http://sks.sirs.com
when it comes to agriculture but was

basically ignored until the early 19th

century.