Modern Farmer

MAY 24, 2024

“A Farm Bill that supports factory farming is not a sustainable, fair Farm Bill,” wrote Rebecca Wolf, senior food policy analyst for Food & Water Watch in an email to Modern Farmer. A mother pig in a gestation crate.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

That’s how a farmer who used to work for Perdue described his chicken house—a sight so upsetting that it led him to transition out of this kind of work, often referred to as “factory farming.” There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal agriculture for decades, but in 2008 when one dairy operation tried moving onto the Yakima Indian Reservation, the community balked at the proposition. full_link READ MORE Learn more about factory farms with our guides.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garc é s has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. What she didn’t realize was that he was also against the factory farm system, having experienced first-hand the way it abuses farmers.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

These digesters are becoming more common, particularly at larger dairy operations housing thousands of cows, called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). This is partially because they have been included as a key ingredient in the Biden administration’s pledge to reduce methane emissions in animal agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming , is available for purchase now. His name was Craig Watts and he was a chicken factory farmer, raising chickens for slaughter. My career is devoted to protecting farmed animals and ending factory farming. I’d failed every previous attempt.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

On an ultra-small scale, a sincere commitment to regenerative agriculture is compatible with reducing many of the harms of industrial animal agriculture, including harms to the climate. Farm Forward is a team of strategists, campaigners, and thought leaders guiding the movement to change the way our world eats and farms.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

GMP has recently launched a national, geolocating directory of farms and ranches, butcher shops, restaurants and retailers, designed to help consumers find, buy and cook meat that is aligned with their Good Meat® values. The Good Meat® Finder is made possible with support from the ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“I think it’s a serious mistake,” said Andre Delattre, the senior vice president and COO for programs at the Public Interest Network , which has advocated for reducing antibiotic use on farms as a matter of public interest for years. the largest volume of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. In the U.S., ” U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Amy Halloran Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming By Leah Garcés In Transfarmation , Leah Garcés criss-crosses the United States helping farmers transition from industrial animal agriculture to raising hemp and crops people can eat.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Farm Sanctuary has recently expanded to advocate for broader changes across the food system, beyond ending animal agriculture. There has always been a recognition that while the beings that we center are farm animals, the interrelated issues caused by factory farming hurt all of us—animals, people, and the planet.

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