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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. . ” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

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Circuit Court Rejects Attempt by WMC and CAFO Groups to Eliminate Environmental Oversight of Wisconsin’s Largest Livestock Operations

Wisconsin Farmers Union

The lawsuit ,, was filed in May 2023 against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce on behalf of Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and Venture Dairy Cooperative, lobbying groups that represent the interests of large livestock facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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