Modern Farmer
AUGUST 13, 2024
There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these—housing thousands to tens of thousands of animals—embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.” Foster Farms is coming to town Linn County is tucked into the western part of Oregon and home to many family-run farms. The CAFO was permitted anyway.
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 13, 2024
There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these—housing thousands to tens of thousands of animals—embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.” Foster Farms is coming to town Linn County is tucked into the western part of Oregon and home to many family-run farms. Something had to be done.
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.
The Lunatic Farmer
APRIL 8, 2025
But that wouldn't reduce factory farmed animals. It surely wouldn't stop chemical fertilizers and bring in compost. That would be an interesting starting point and dramatic: it would immediately eliminate about 9,600 additives/toxins from America's food supply. It wouldn't eliminate poisons in vegetables. Therein lies the rub.
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Solutions to food security, with fertile lands and natural resources. Tell world leaders to end factory farming – for the sake of our planet. Solutions for innovation in a youthful and energetic population with the hunger to succeed. The evidence is clear: we can’t tackle climate change without changing our food system.
The Lunatic Farmer
JANUARY 4, 2022
Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer? Or factory farms? I suggest that instead of abundance requiring eliminating cows, can't we pick something better to eliminate? Like glyphosate? Or cattle feedlots?
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