Group: Ploy, Karn, Oom, Khing 1002

● Deforestation to create grassland for grazing cows (PLOY)

○ How does it affect the environment?
○ Do we have any way the decrease the demand of beef?
○ Why does beef is needed?
○ Why does growing cows require a lot of lands?
○ Why deforest is bad and how does it affect environment?
○ Why does grassland are request for grazing cows?
○ Do only deforest process occurs only for land in grazing cows?
○ What are the main problem that cows cause to the environment?
○ Can we reduce deforestation from grazing cows?
○ Can we raising cows without deforestation for grassland?
○ Which forest is most affected?

Overfishing in oceans (karn)

○ How does it cause an effect more than decrease in population
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○ What is overfishing
Ans: Overfishing is when people fish more than they need
○ Cause effect and solution of overfishing
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○ Problem of overfishing
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○ Solution for now and in the future
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○ In which country people overfishing the most
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○ In what period of time that cause a major problem for overfishing
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○ Which part of ocean caughting the most fish
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○ What kind of fish are people looking for
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○ Destructive fishing equipment
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● Runoff of fecal matter, urine, blood, and other tissues into water way or vegetable farms
(khing)
○ What is fecal matter, urine, and blood’s physical and chemical features?
○ How are they released into the water way or vegetable farms?
○ What are the effects of these effluence to the environment, human health, and
ecosystem?
○ In which area does this problem of fecal matter effluence occur the most?
 ○ What type of farming results in this problem the most?
○ In what area does the problem occur most?
○ What are some solutions human make to solve this problem?
○ What is the remained problem that isn’t fixed yet?
○ What are some effective ways to improve the situation in the future?

● Methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxides released in farming and relationship to
climate change (together)
○ How does farming produce greenhouse gases?
○ What are the major greenhouse gases produced from farming?
○ How much greenhouse gases is produced from farming?
○ How does these gases affect climate change?
○ What is the relation or corresponding trend between the amount of farming and
the earth temperature?
○ Which type of farming releases the most greenhouse gases?
○ What is some solutions being made to solve this problem?
○ What can be improved more about farming to relieve this problem?

● Water use and relationship to droughts, water shortages(Oom)

○ How much of water that we use per year?
○ What is the major cause of drought and how it is related to water use?
○ What is the effect of water shortage?
○ What is the way to prevent or decrease drought?

Proposal

In this 21th century, industrial farming is a common means of food production, for it
yields massive amount of resources--meat, eggs, milk, grain, palm, etc.-- needed to support the
human population and higher-and-higher demands. But it turns out that humans’ industrial
farming causes many environmental problems which does impact not only the nature but also
the humans ourselves.
In this project, our group has chosen 5 major issues that result from industrial farming to
study. The first topic is ‘deforestation to create the grassland for grazing cows’. We choose
this because one of the biggest threats to forests is industrial farming, by human cutting down
trees for them to turn lands into farms. It brings about many serious issue such as habitat
destruction and species extinction; furthermore, less oxygen is produced and less carbon
dioxide is absorbed, causing global warming. Cows are also the major livestock as people
widely eat beef and dairy products. So the problems from farming cow are a lot. The second
topic is ‘overfishing’. This topic is essential to look into because it shows that the problem from
industrial farming isn’t only about raising too much but also capturing too much. Humans
devastate the aquatic ecosystem and devastate the habitats so much as they claim that there
are more than enough fish in the enormous oceans all over the world, but actually many marine
lives are facing a crisis of being extinct. If we don’t solve this problem, there may not be enough
fish for people to feed on in the future. For the third topic, we have chosen ‘Runoff of fecal
matter, urine, blood, and other tissues into water way or vegetable farms’. This problem is
simply created when ample livestock is raised. Unlike the problem from pesticide or chemical
fertilizer usage, the waste in this problem is actually a normal body function of animals to
defecate, but lots of it and without a proper treatment leads to pollution when it is released into
farms, rivers, or oceans. The fourth topic is ‘Methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxides
released in farming and relationship to climate change’. We pick up this topic because it is
another problem from industrial farming that has been mentioned frequently. Since livestock, for
example cows, emit much methane from their digestion, and therefore contribute to global
warming to a better percentage than we think. And for the last topic, we have chosen ‘Water
use and relationship to droughts, water shortages’. This problem is caused rather in the
same way as the third and the fourth ones; livestock needs water for living, so to farm it more
water and also food must be used for feeding. What happen is water can become scarce,
drought may break out, and water may not be sufficient in the future.
For each issue about industrial farming selected, we will study deeper into essential
details such as the characteristic of the problem; how it being created by industrial farming; the
effects of the problem to the environment, ecosystem, and human; the solution right now; the
unsolved problem; and the possible way to improve in the future. We will look into the areas that
are impacted the most by each problem and determine which type of industrial farming most
contributes to each problem. These are for the deeper understanding of the impacts of industrial
farming today.