The greatest threat to the environment is due to animal waste produced by intensive farming. “According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the EPA, animal feeding operations produce approximately 500 million tons of manure each year” (AN HSUS Report: The Impact of Industrialized Animal Agriculture on the environment). Traditional agricultural operations that include the production of agricultural and livestock products use animal waste as fertilizer for crops, the high levels of nitrogen help stimulate plant growth. However, industrial livestock farms have to use other disposable methods due to the lack of land needed for basic animal waste solution. Instead the companies will move to smaller farms nearby, the intense concentration of manure in these agricultural areas causes high levels of harmful natural chemicals found in animal waste to end up in water supplies. Water runoff inevitably ends up in streams, ponds, lakes and drinking water. High levels of pollutants such as phosphorus and nitrogen remove oxygen from the water, which is harmful to aquatic life. Additionally, the use of manure lagoons, which are essentially open pits used for manure storage, pose a large risk to air quality due to the release of high levels of harmful gases (An HSUS Report: The Impact of Industrialized Animal Agriculture on the Environment). There is also a great risk that the muck lagoons could leak and leak into nearby water supplies, which poses a huge threat to local wildlife and aquatic animals. The increasing amount of these pollutants in the air puts workers and nearby residents at risk of developing serious chronic diseases and contributes to the deterioration of the overall quality of breathing air. Intensive farming is one of the main causes of global climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Like the