How Did We Get Here?
Pasado’s Safe Haven provides summaries of each era leading to Factory Farming and its dark realities.
Dependency on animal-based farming did lead to the adoption of intensive crop rotations which which are great for nature and better production.
Man-made manipulation of nature’s animals were implemented for greater production or supply, and bigger profits.
This led to wide spread use of antibiotics in the 1930’s to reduce the spread of disease in Factory Farmed animals.
20th Century Factory Farms drastically changed our food and was subsided by taxpayers!
Post-World War II, the period after World War II which concluded September 2, 1945 after Japan formally surrendered. This period led to shifts in culture, including the rise of consumerism and new social movements.
Antibiotics not only had a dramatic impact on human medicine, but also on food production.
On farms, whaling and fishing fleets, as well as, in processing plants and aquaculture operations, antibiotics were used to treat and prevent disease, increase feed conversion and preserve food.
Rapid diffusion into nearly all areas of food production and processing was initially viewed as a story of progress on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Resources
- Kirchhelle, C. Pharming animals: a global history of antibiotics in food production (1935–2017). Palgrave Commun 4, 96 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0152-2 ↩︎
- Larry Rana, “A Commercial Meat Chicken Production House,” Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Commercial_Meat_Chicken_Production_House.jpg
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