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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

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.

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

Food Tank

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations.

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Advice from those organizing against factory farms

Modern Farmer

But beyond market-based solutions, she also encourages people to engage with legislators. If included, this could take away states’ power to make decisions about the conditions of industrial animal agriculture locally. In your everyday life, you can support the kind of farmers you want to see, says Kimbirauskas.

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

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. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution

Modern Farmer

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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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

We join him as he transplants flats of vegetables on a Wisconsin Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, meets a small-scale rice producer in Italy’s Piedmont, and prepares a market-to-table meal in Lyon, France. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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