Is the environmental impact of industrial farming worth the risk?

My blog title is my latest form of a question I have been trying to perfect. I know i want to talk about the environmental impact and the footprint we are leaving and will eventually have to fix but to what extent do i want to go to. Do i talk about the economic as well as environmental stress industrial farming will cause? It seems that in todays world talking about economic factors is the only way to get through to government and corporations-- it's not the health or environmental issues because they could care less, whatever makes them money. We as a species are destroying earth to make room for genetically modified crops and livestock and only see the short term issues nobody seems to be planning for the long term issues. What happens when E.coli becomes such and issue that we can't reuse the manure to make fertilizer because we've stuffed cows so close together that everything is contaminated one box at a time, are big corporations planing to spend millions even billions to improve conditions for the animals? The answer with the greatest possibility is no, the best case scenario is they move the manure somewhere else and now we've destroyed two areas where E.coli was never a problem because it's the cheaper choice at this very moment. How many circumstances will come up to make corporations and the government see the real threat of how industrial farms operate? Is the environmental impact of industrial farming worth the risk?