Sustainable vs Industrial Agriculture

Industrial agriculture maximizes production and profits by using excessive amounts of chemicals pesticides, herbicides and hormones.

• True

• False

Sustainable Farms usually have unsanitary conditions at their factory farms

• True

• False

__________ farmers protect the environment by managing their farms in a responsible manner, respecting the earth

• Sustainable

• Industrial

_________ agriculture causes massive topsoil erosion and aquifer depletion

• Sustainable

• Industrial

Factory farms concentrate enormous numbers of animals in small areas, storing their waste in huge lagoons.

• True

• False

Sustainable agriculture contaminate ground and surface water with toxic pesticide and fertilizer runoff.

• True

• False

___________farming promotes land conservation through crop rotation, and planting of cover crops.

• Sustainable

• Industrial

Which farming practice is better for the environment?

• Sustainable

• Industrial

_________ raised animals are regularly fed antibiotics to promote growth and keep them alive in unsanitary conditions.

• Sustainably

• Industrially

Biodiversity means...

• Variety of life

• one type of life