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. Agriculture contributes at least 11 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions , and meat is the biggest contributor among foods.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

The report Anaerobic digesters are not typically things that you would ever see on a small, pasture-based dairy or farm. In addition to research, Food & Water Watch mobilizes people on issues related to food systems and factory farming. Biogas doesn’t solve the factory farm issue,” says Hunt.

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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. The EWG analysis found similar trends.

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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! That is also Roundup.

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