Where's the Beef? by Yvonne Wong https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2 The hidden costs of factory farms: a collection of thoughts, ideas, and questions en-us 2019-03-22 13:27:26 UTC 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/345905249/86db7b13e89fc843afa507cdccd1ada1/wheres_the_beef_clipart_1.jpg Madison Miles https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199290 1. why do companies not care about the contaminates in the meat?
2. why do I see so many family farms that treat the animals right, but I never see their products in the stores?]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199290 Gabrielle Vallejos https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199291 1. why are only some of the organic food companies in store?
2. where are the healthy/ more organic meats? like the farms that treat there animals right.]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199291 Madison Miles https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199292 A thing we can do is only eat beef once a week, this way there can be less waste of water and less beef production with less greenhouse gasses ]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199292 Gabrielle Vallejos https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199294 Something that me and my team can do is we can start drinking from metal straws to not have anymore plastic in this world.]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199294 Gabrielle Vallejos https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199295 -Worldwide livestock take up 30 percent of the worlds entire land area.
-We use about 8 times of land for feeding animals as for feeding humans.
-In Brazil acres of forest are being cleared for more livestock
-It takes about 1800 hundred gallons of water to make a single pound of grain fed beef
-Cows are sold at auction when they are 700 pounds
-A feed lot is like a cow city.
-At a feed lot cows still continue to eat more and more.
-At fed lots they eat a mixture of soy and corn.
-Cows create methane gas when they digest food.
-Burgers can cause 158,000,000 tons of green house gases per year.
-eating red meat can cause cows to have heart disease.


]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199295 Madison Miles https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199296 -cows take up a lot of space 30% of earth's land area
-1800 gal per lb of beef
-cows eat a lot
-because they changed from feeding cows grass to corn they produce more gas known as methane gas
-cow manure causes 2/3 of the nitrous  oxide pollution in the world
-all beef goes in the same place so one cow that's sick makes thousands of patties bad
-Burgers causes about 158000000 tons of greenhouse gasses per year
-40% of carbon footprint comes from cows.
-eating read meat can cause heart disease  ]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199296 DAY 6 Take Action yvonne_wong1 https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199298
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]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199298 DAY 2 Building Background Knowledge yvonne_wong1 https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199299 Watch the video and read the “Carbon Hoofprint” article on the next slide to learn more about the impact of beef consumption on the environment. 
  • What are some of the hidden costs of factory farms?

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]]> 2019-03-22 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199299 DAY 7 321 Bridge Organizer yvonne_wong1 https://padlet.com/yvonne_wong1/frqcjdntl7g2/wish/344199300 Answer the following question:

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