This diet made it possible to remove cattle from their natural environment and encourage the efficiency of mass confinement and slaughter. But it causes enough health problems that administration of antibiotics is routine, so much so that it can result in antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten the usefulness of medicines that treat people" (Bittman 2008, p.1).
Beef mass production also releases methane gas into the atmosphere because of the sheer volume of cows that are used to sate America's unending desire for beef. Bittman who is a non-vegetarian but an advocate of radically cutting America's beef consumption notes: "Americans eat about the same amount of meat as we have for some time, about eight ounces a day, roughly twice the global average. At about 5% of the world's population, we 'process' (that is, grow and kill) nearly 10 billion animals a year, more than 15% of the world's total. Growing meat (it's hard to use the word "raising" when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it's a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: an estimated 30% of the earth's ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production, according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, which also estimates that livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world's greenhouse gases -- more than transportation" (Bittman 2008, p.1).
Pollan and Bittman are not vegetarians -- in fact, Pollan's ideal is not 'big organic' agriculture, which both he and Bittman says often are a mere technicality, in terms of being in line with government regulations about pesticides. Rather, it is Polyface Farm, run by a fundamentalist Christian who rotates his crops, grazes his cattle for slaughter and milking, and allows his chickens to run wild, pecking at cow manure to eat bugs and to spread their own manure around as fertilizer for crops. "This is chicken as I remember it from my childhood. It actually tastes like chicken," the customers exclaim when they eat his product (Pollan 2006). Sustainable food, locally sourced is healthier and taste better, Pollan and Bittman advocate. Even if not everyone can life the Polyface Farm way, what Americans can do is cease to patronize fast food establishments and stop eating processed foods that are the result of industrialized agriculture. Until inefficient farms...
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