Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

It is very hard for most people to know what to do to organize against the threats presented by factory farming in their community. Align yourself with a supporting organization Food and Water Watch addresses factory farming on a big-picture scale. Jennifer Breon of Food and Water Watch Iowa echoes this point. “I

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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.

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

It may sound dramatic, but if we become a snake farming country, we should be prepared for the possibility of rogue pythons on the loose, eating whatever other animals (farm or pet) they come into contact with. To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S.

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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.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

By one estimate, the industry benefits from $7 trillion in subsidies annually, making inputs like synthetic fertilizer and pesticides artificially cheap and therefore possible to use on a vast scale. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. full_link READ MORE Learn more about factory farms with our guides. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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