When Profit Comes First: Factory Farming and Its Consequences on Sustainability and Health

The agribusiness is the major contributor to global warming and the main source of deforestation and biodiversity loss. Livestock industries constitute the diamond tip of this sector in which animal and human rights lack. Factory farming have serious consequences on the environment, leading to pollute global soil and waters. Therefore, people are paying the consequences of meat production. This is carried by farmers, politicians and lobbies who play leading roles in building a society based on meat consumption. Brazil, China and other worldwide States have increased their wealth due to an economy based on factory farming. Nevertheless, decades ago, the WHO classified processed meat as carcinogenic for humans, with the strongest evidence being for risk of colorectal and stomach cancers, and red meat as probably carcinogenic. The following Master thesis is aimed to provide political, economic and social solutions based on scientific studies to reduce the meat consumption in order to cut down environmental damage and human rights violations.