“… Despite recent green investments, an array of government subsidies pay big dirty industries like oil, coal and factory farms …
… to destroy the environment in every way possible.
Urban sprawl, pollution, over-consumption, deforestation…like it or not, U.S. taxpayers are still paying for all of these things to occur in America and beyond.
Despite recent investments in green jobs and technology …
… an array of government subsidies pay big dirty industries like oil, coal and factory farms to destroy the environment in every way possible …
… while greener, healthier industries like solar power and vegetable farms get a pittance…”
(8 of the 10 apply here in new zealand…
..including this one…)
“…5. Factory Farming
American factory farms are literally filthy cesspools of their own making …
… and who else is cleaning up all that shit but American taxpayers?
Giant factory farms make up just 2% of the livestock farms in the U.S. … yet raise 40% of all animals in the U.S.,…
… and they do it using practices that are not only harmful to workers and the animals themselves … but to the environment.
The government heavily subsidizes factory farms so they can provide über-cheap meat and dairy …
… raising as many animals as possible … in the shortest amount of time … with the least amount of care.
And why should they care about finding better ways to manage manure …
… when the government hands them $125 million annually to “deal†with the consequences …
… and then doesn’t bother to check up on them?
Despite the backwards funding given to clean them up …
… gaping lagoons of livestock waste packed with pollutants continue to be one of the biggest environmental problems in America …
… fouling our water …
… and causing those depressing dead zones in our oceans…” (cont..)
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