Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. The political headwinds were facing make it all the more challenging, enabling fossil fuel producers to continue to shapeshift to shirk responsibility and find new avenues for oil and gas.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

.” — Vincent Martin, Director of FAO’s Office of Innovation (via @FAOInnovation on X) Ways To Take Action: Add your name: via Compassion in World Farming — “Livestock produce more direct greenhouse gas emissions than planes, trains and cars, combined. Tell world leaders to end factory farming – for the sake of our planet.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. The big idea: Create chicken meat in a controlled setting, with no harm to animals and a drastic reduction of the issues associated with problematic factory farming practices. “We

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And of course, it’s not like for every PLNT Burger sold, a factory farm gives up five acres of land, or releases a cow from the slaughter line—actually meaningful solutions to the factory meat problem. Table to Farm: Can Restaurants Serve Climate Education? Some workers are taking matters into their own hands.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air. Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garc é s has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. What she didn’t realize was that he was also against the factory farm system, having experienced first-hand the way it abuses farmers. So, now we know. Not Anymore.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

In addition to research, Food & Water Watch mobilizes people on issues related to food systems and factory farming. On its website , you can read about its various objectives and wins against industrialized farming as well as calls to action on these issues. Biogas doesn’t solve the factory farm issue,” says Hunt.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. Revealing the Problem with Factory Farming. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In other words, Vilsack argued, climate action could help save the American farm. The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factory farms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size. million over the 2017 census.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 31, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

farmland, are used to fatten animals on factory farms, and deliver many of the sugars and fats in our ultraprocessed diets. Then show us your plan for preserving topsoil, controlling runoff, and slashing greenhouse gas emissions. These commodities account for about 60 percent of U.S. Want goodies from the USDA?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

It has been estimated that were his mixed farming system to be taken to scale right across the arable east of the UK, the soil carbon sequestered could offset a very significant percentage of total UK greenhouse gas emissions. What we need is more public pressure for change!

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health edited by James Merchant and Robert Martin This compilation of essays explores the history and consequences of the movement that led to industrialization of animal production.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

However, Alexandre and so many other companies that want to rehabilitate dairy farms are not small-scale; they may have thousands of animals under their care. And recent research into the ability of large-scale “regenerative” cow operations to offset as much greenhouse gas emissions as they produce is quite clear: It won’t work.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

GMP has recently launched a national, geolocating directory of farms and ranches, butcher shops, restaurants and retailers, designed to help consumers find, buy and cook meat that is aligned with their Good Meat® values. The Good Meat® Finder is made possible with support from the ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Not only has the FDA been unwilling to use its legal authority to reduce the massive overuse of antibiotics on factory farms in the U.S., In 2016, the agency banned the use of medically important drugs on farms solely for the purpose of making animals get bigger, faster.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There has always been a recognition that while the beings that we center are farm animals, the interrelated issues caused by factory farming hurt all of us—animals, people, and the planet. And he was mainstreaming those concerns and critiques around factory farming through compassion and empathy for animal beings.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shutting down Superior, then, might not impact overall greenhouse gas emissions from industrial farming—but it would likely improve air and water quality in Globeville. They also point out that a new facility would likely be more efficient than a 70-year-old slaughterhouse, and therefore generate fewer emissions.

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