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Modern Farmer
MAY 7, 2024
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.
Modern Farmer
MAY 7, 2024
(Photography credit to Transfarmation / Mercy For Animals) Risk tolerance While many contract farmers find themselves in parallel positions—burdened with debt and lacking independence in making decisions on their farm—the path out of factory farming looks a little different for everyone. Left: Paula Boles.
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Modern Farmer
AUGUST 13, 2024
CAFOs are defined by the EPA as intensive feeding operations where many animals are confined and fed for at least 45 days per year—though this is just a minimum—and where the waste from those animals poses a pollution threat to surface water. Site fights The battle against factory farms happens at multiple scales.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 13, 2024
CAFOs are defined by the EPA as intensive feeding operations where many animals are confined and fed for at least 45 days per year—though this is just a minimum—and where the waste from those animals poses a pollution threat to surface water. Site fights The battle against factory farms happens at multiple scales.
Food Politics
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV. The lunch menu: The summit is featuries roughly two-thirds plant-based menu to highlight the link between greenhouse gas emissions and livestock. Supporting workers in agriculture and food systems whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change.
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. At first, it seems simple: “Better” meat is factory-farmed meat. What is the “right” approach to meat?
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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