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. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2022

No scientist has ever taken a methane sample from the cows on our farm. Would the data points derived from our pastured cows be different than a cow locked in a Fresno feedlot eating GMO corn and soybeans? Or anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer? Or superphsophate chemical fertilizer? Or factory farms?

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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. Increase the amount of forage by planting grasses and legumes. .

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 15, 2025

Imagine thinking factory farmed chickens have nothing to do with bird flu. Imagine thinking an egg from caged factory chickens is just as nutritious as one from GMO-free pastured birds. We believe chemical fertilizers are the only way to feed the world. Imagine thinking a mask could stop a virus.

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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. That is also Roundup.

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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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