Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape

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Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape

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Centner is skeptical about biotechnology. He raises familiar concerns over the threat of engineered plant varieties to native species and their potential to produce new pathogens, and sees "terminator" genes as more threatening than beneficial. He believes their value in lowering feed costs and in building disease resistance is more than offset by their expense and their role in fostering drug-resistant bacteria—a threat to humans as well as their farm animals.

Centner has favorable things to say about the role of technology and science in the new agricultural order as well. Precision farming with remote sensing, variable-rate technology, and global positioning satellite imagery will allow farmers to accurately map field conditions and optimize fertilizer, pesticide, and water applications. By enabling regulators to identify pollution sources, new technologies will facilitate management of ongoing pollution. Other environmental innovations discussed by Centner include the development of predictive modeling systems for pollution control and index guides to the application of chemicals to the soil.

Given his strong focus on regulatory changes, it is surprising that Centner did not consider enforcement regimes in terms of cost, manpower, and, most of all, effectiveness.

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The effectiveness of environmental legislation depends on the will and wherewithal to enforce it. Centner seems to think that one will automatically follow the other. Centner might also have discussed the potential of anaerobic digestion, or the conversion of waste to energy, as part of his guidelines for the future. Very popular in Eu-rope, this technology has immense implications for environmental sustainability and is very appropriate for intensive feedlot operations in partnership with other enterprises.

Detractors argue that low energy costs in North America preclude its application.

Given his other arguments, Centner might not consider that a viable reason. In this book Terence J. Centner investigates environmental, social, economic, and political considerations related to the rise of the so-called factory farm, exposing the ramifications of the contemporary trend toward industrial-scale food productions. The issues he tackles include groundwater contamination, the loss of biodiversity, animal welfare, concentrated odors and other nuisances, soil erosion, and the economic effects of the disappearance of the small family farm.

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