Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Farm Forward recently published a major investigative report detailing systematic animal suffering and consumer fraud at Alexandre Family Farm—a leading large-scale organic dairy company with “well over 9,000 head of cattle,” according to co-owner Blake Alexandre—whose products are covered in certification labels.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Or factory farms? Or cattle feedlots? I suggest that instead of abundance requiring eliminating cows, can't we pick something better to eliminate? Like glyphosate? Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer?

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Driven by supermarket price wars, retailers have been relentlessly pushing down the price that they offer to the farmers that supply them, who, when faced with this price pressure, have perceived the only option left to them is further intensification and enlargement of their farming operations and, in the case of livestock, animal numbers.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

Grass-fed beef is also leaner than conventional beef; this means there will be less fat marbling in your steak or burger when cooking with grass-fed meat compared to regular supermarket products from factory farms that raise cattle on corn feedlots. These plants provide excellent nutrition for cattle.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air. Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The farm then creates a second source of income.” In other words, Vilsack argued, climate action could help save the American farm. The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factory farms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Not only has the FDA been unwilling to use its legal authority to reduce the massive overuse of antibiotics on factory farms in the U.S., In 2016, the agency banned the use of medically important drugs on farms solely for the purpose of making animals get bigger, faster. That change led to a big drop in overall drug use.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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