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

AUGUST 13, 2024

This industry presents itself as a way to produce a lot of food while keeping costs down. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Today, Kimbirauskas is the Senior Director of Agriculture and Food Systems at the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This industry presents itself as a way to produce a lot of food while keeping costs down. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Today, Kimbirauskas is the Senior Director of Agriculture and Food Systems at the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

could reduce their food-related emissions by shifting 40 percent of their meat-based diet (cows, sheep, goats) by 2050 to meat alternatives, whether plant-based or lab-grown, or a mix. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. It all comes into what drives them.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Before members of Congress left for their August break, they initiated a flurry of activity in advance of what will likely be a sprint toward writing and then passing the legislation that shapes America’s food and agriculture system. Members of the House Ag Committee held listening sessions with farmers in Maine and Minnesota.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. In this week’s Field Report, an update on how lawmakers are gearing up for a food-and-ag sprint when they return to D.C. Unlike SNAP, it generally garners bipartisan support, since it focuses on healthy food and directs more dollars directly to farmers. To all of what follows, amen.

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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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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

That’s allowed some companies to raise animals in ways that many in the industry feel doesn’t align with what the public expects. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It sets a bad precedent [for the industry], even if it’s within organic.” Read More: Inside the Rural Resistance to CAFOs Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work.

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