Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. One key reason: the industrial food chain and its ultra-processed foods are deeply dependent on fossil fuels. And methane emissions from ruminants, like cattle, are another significant source of climate impacts.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In Dimbleby’s vision for a sustainable and resilient food future, a diversity of approaches will be needed: “Organic farms will live alongside solar-powered, high-rise greenhouses growing fruit and veg in cities. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. The goal is to get to a point where you will not be raising cattle.”

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s ’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I walks among the cattle on his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. Albert Johnson Jr.

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