logging in or signing up Factory Farms kjohnso1 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 21 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: July 25, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Factory Farms: Factory FarmsExcrement: Excrement “Hogs produce three times more excrement than human being do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield farm generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan.”Excrement: Excrement Working Definition: waste matter discharged from the body, especially fecesInseminated: Inseminated “Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around.”Inseminated: Inseminated Working Definition: to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.Immunological: Immunological “From Smithfield’s point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological.”Immunological: Immunological Working Definition: the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.Susceptible: Susceptible “They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population.”Susceptible: Susceptible Working Definition: accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.Ambulatory: Ambulatory “As long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat.”Ambulatory: Ambulatory Working Definition: of, pertaining to, or capable of walkingDeprive: Deprive “Hog farms in North Carolina also emit some 300 tons of nitrogen into the air every day as ammonia gas, much of which falls back to earth and deprives lakes and streams of oxygen…”Deprive: Deprive Working Definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons):Atomized: Atomized “Lofted and atomized, the feces is blown clear of the company’s property.”Atomized: Atomized Working Definition: to reduce to fine particles or sprayAgglomeration: Agglomeration “To appreciate what this agglomeration of hog production does to the people who live near it, you have to appreciate the smell of industrial-strength pig feces.”Agglomeration: Agglomeration Working Definition: a jumbled cluster or mass of varied partsInsidiously: Insidiously “I’ve probably smelled stronger odors in my life, but nothing so insidiously and instantaneously nauseating.”Insidiously: Insidiously Working Definition: working in a subtle or apparently innocuous way, but nevertheless deadlyDeoxygenate: Deoxygenate “…the nutrients in the pig feces produce algal blooms that also deoxygenate the water.”Deoxygenate: Deoxygenate Working Definition: to remove oxygen fromFlourishes: Flourishes “MRSA also flourishes in nasal passages, so touching your nose after touching meat fives the bug another way into your body, adds Smith.”Flourishes: Flourishes Working Definition: to be in a vigorous state; thrive You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Factory Farms kjohnso1 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 21 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: July 25, 2011 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Factory Farms: Factory FarmsExcrement: Excrement “Hogs produce three times more excrement than human being do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield farm generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan.”Excrement: Excrement Working Definition: waste matter discharged from the body, especially fecesInseminated: Inseminated “Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around.”Inseminated: Inseminated Working Definition: to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.Immunological: Immunological “From Smithfield’s point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological.”Immunological: Immunological Working Definition: the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.Susceptible: Susceptible “They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population.”Susceptible: Susceptible Working Definition: accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.Ambulatory: Ambulatory “As long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat.”Ambulatory: Ambulatory Working Definition: of, pertaining to, or capable of walkingDeprive: Deprive “Hog farms in North Carolina also emit some 300 tons of nitrogen into the air every day as ammonia gas, much of which falls back to earth and deprives lakes and streams of oxygen…”Deprive: Deprive Working Definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons):Atomized: Atomized “Lofted and atomized, the feces is blown clear of the company’s property.”Atomized: Atomized Working Definition: to reduce to fine particles or sprayAgglomeration: Agglomeration “To appreciate what this agglomeration of hog production does to the people who live near it, you have to appreciate the smell of industrial-strength pig feces.”Agglomeration: Agglomeration Working Definition: a jumbled cluster or mass of varied partsInsidiously: Insidiously “I’ve probably smelled stronger odors in my life, but nothing so insidiously and instantaneously nauseating.”Insidiously: Insidiously Working Definition: working in a subtle or apparently innocuous way, but nevertheless deadlyDeoxygenate: Deoxygenate “…the nutrients in the pig feces produce algal blooms that also deoxygenate the water.”Deoxygenate: Deoxygenate Working Definition: to remove oxygen fromFlourishes: Flourishes “MRSA also flourishes in nasal passages, so touching your nose after touching meat fives the bug another way into your body, adds Smith.”Flourishes: Flourishes Working Definition: to be in a vigorous state; thrive