What are the positives of intensive farming?

Question

This includes any positives of battery farming if you an find some.

Answer 1

The Positives of Intensive Farming?  Eating, having clothing and having shelter.  All obvious answers!  Less than 3% of Americians are involved in farming these days.  We, as modern, intensive farmers grow the food for everyone, raise the cotton for your clothes, produce the wood for your houses.  Only through intensive farming techniques are so few able to feed, clothe and shelter so many others.  You ask this question on Yahoo only becasue you have the time to do so as you are not trying to feed yourself.  Yahoo exists only becasue of intensive farming which allows the programers, et al to do what they do and not have to be on the farm trying to feed, clothe and shelter their families!

Answer 2

I cannot find any positives and I really gave it some thought...

if you really want to stop battery farming.. cut down your meat consumption AND grow some of your own food.. at least plant a tomatoe plant or lettuce seeds.. or an apple tree...

Answer 3

The positives are production of large quantity of relatively cheap food products. I'm not a fan of battery farming, but you asked for the positive and it definately has them. It also has many negatives and the way battery farming is being done today they out weigh the positives. The answer in my opinion is cleaning up the battery farming  process to make it more humane and we still have enough food to eat.

Answer 4

Positives are few, but legitimate:

The most effecient (from a time, space and resources input perspective) means of producing the largest quantity of crop.

Answer 5

there are none except it consumes less space,... from the animals point of view its all negative...

all that negative energy goes into the food we eat..

none the less specialists warn that unless we get our human population under control that with in 50 years we will be forced to eat cat and dog like in China because there will be no room to raise cattle or feed for cattle and beef will be $$$$..

Answer 6

Intensive farming utilizing modern hybrid crops, pesticides, fertilizers and equipment can allow large quantities of food (esp. grains) to be grown with minimal human labor in currently available fields.

Example: In the U.S., less arable farmland is utilized to produce a significantly larger harvest as compared to 100 years ago.

Positives of battery farming (CAFO - Confined Animal Feeding Operations) allow large quantities of meat, poultry, pork and eggs to be produced with consistent quality and minimal cost to the consumer.  Centralized feeding allows price breaks for feed costs using bulk purchasing power and a centralized location for the distribution of products.