Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pet food industry traditionally relies on factory farm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. Their excrement, frass, is a rich fertilizer for agriculture. The post On The Ground: Your Dog’s Food Probably Comes From a Factory Farm.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer? 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?

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

, has been assiduously gathering evidence on the carbon outcomes of his farming system for more than 20 years. Richard reports, stunningly, that he is sequestering 10 times more carbon than the farm is omitting, and this is despite the fact that he built his fertility with beef cattle.

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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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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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