The result is cheaper food, but also mistreated animals, exploited workers, farmers who are criminalized for working their own land, and consumers who don't know what's really in the food sitting on their dinner plate.
Barbara Stam, a teacher at Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Part of the Los Angeles Unified School District), along with fellow teachers Nora Zaragoza and Misty Cervantes, are supporting 60 students to learn about the web of issues that arise when animals are exploited for economic gain.
Small mammals formed the bulk of animals exploited.
Despite the seemingly wide range of wild animal species exploited for food within the region, people have clear preferences.
Some say an alligator can take a little rough handling, but people who once respected the land and its inhabitants should know one thing: caging and manipulating animals to be exploited for entertainment is nothing to brag about.
The Farm, which is made by the Big Brother producer, Endemol, caused controversy even before it began last week, when Peta expressed concern that animals were being exploited for entertainment purposes.
These animals exploit more man-made environments like docks for haul-out sites.
Biologists routinely speak of animals exploiting their ecological niche.
Terrestrial animals, however, have been exploited for many decades as medicinal resources for the treatment and relief of a myriad of illnesses and diseases in practically every human culture (Costa-Neto, 2005; Montaser & Luesch, 2011).
Animals on ranches may be exploited for meat but most ranches aim for the added value of sport/trophy hunting, live animal sales and ecotourism.
