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Despite Recent Headlines, Urban Farming Is Not a Climate Villain

Civil Eats

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.

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Exiting the Factory Farm

Modern Farmer

The role of policy One of the biggest obstacles that Kara Shannon, director of farm animal welfare policy for the ASPCA, has observed for farmers wanting to transition out of industrial animal agriculture and into specialty crops or something more humane is the lack of funding and resources available to overcome financial hurdles.

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

This means crops and animals are raised without pesticides or hormones, have access to open areas and are entirely or partially grass-fed. Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co. Meats requires all their partner farms to be operating with never-ever practices or better. Many of Cream Co.

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They Once Worked in Factory Farming. Not Anymore.

Modern Farmer

While contract farming, or “factory farming,” has been exposed in the media for being exploitative of animals, the farmers who sign contracts with companies like Tyson, Perdue or other big players in animal agriculture also find themselves backed into a financial corner. This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse.

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The Transition Away From Factory Farming

Modern Farmer

What unfolded in the years after their first meeting was an initiative called The Transfarmation Project , which today works to help former contract farmers transition away from this system and into sustainable agriculture. Historically, animal activists and contract farmers have been on opposite sides of the factory farming issue.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. Crop farming volume, such as soy, corn, and alfalfa, will fall by more than 50 percent. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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