Food Sustainability

One major issue facing food production and the environment in North Carolina is the unsustainable way in which food is farmed and grown. Instead of small local farms that produce food for people in the immediate area, North Carolina uses gigantic factory farms. These farms produce food on a massive scale, but in a way that is very harmful to the environment. Pesticides and fertilizers run off from farms into bodies of water, while waste and gasses from animal farms pollutes the ground and air. These farms also chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones to increase their production, at the expense of the people who will eat the food. These methods of farming in North Carolina clearly hurt the state, and they need to be changed.