FACTORY FARMS WIPING OUT LIFE ON EARTH

What. You think that's overstated? Well, yeah it is. But not as much as you'd think."The Earth may be on the brink of a sixth mass extinction on a par with the five others that have punctuated its history, suggests the strongest evidence yet." The main decline in extinctions is linked to nitrogen pollution. And guess what? "Atmospheric nitrogen pollution is caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and from intensive agriculture, especially from the volatilisation of animal waste."