what's the connection? by lindsay wilson know that conventional agriculture is number three on the list respiratory conditions water quality is also highly affected by agricultural runoff of of the national academy of sciences found that conventional agriculture is responsible for 12 percent of air pollution-related for watershed sciences studied the link between agriculture and economic damages from ground level emissions of ammonia and groundwater and found that “agricultural fertilizers and emitted from synthetic fertilizer used on conventional farms animal wastes are by far the largest regional sources of nitrate in groundwater in these agricultural regions." operations are directly responsible for more than seven percent dead zones and algae blooms resulting from agricultural runoff are conventional agriculture is bad for the emissions up to 90 percent over the next century conventional agriculture also takes a major toll on the soil ever increasing amounts of chemical fertilizers to stimulate plant one-third of the earth's fertile soil is being “acutely degraded." the major contributor to climate change in cafos create between 3 and 20 times more manure than all conventional agriculture is responsible for levels of pesticides in their bodies and most of the exposure comes 12% of air pollution- related deaths each year
