Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census data.

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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

MAY 24, 2024

“A Farm Bill that supports factory farming is not a sustainable, fair Farm Bill,” wrote Rebecca Wolf, senior food policy analyst for Food & Water Watch in an email to Modern Farmer. A mother pig in a gestation crate.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems. At first, it seems simple: “Better” meat is factory-farmed meat. Others disagree strongly with this, but say, for the sake of argument, we accept this as true. Questions such as who benefits?

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

But Sonoma has a less genteel side: The area is also home to approximately 3 million head of livestock held in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. In November, county residents will have the unique opportunity to ban CAFOs with a ballot initiative that would completely prohibit industrial livestock operations.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2022

Nutrition is one of the keys to better immune systems; homegrown eggs are far superior nutritionally than industrial factory farmed supermarket eggs. In the New York Times bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond documents the ascendancy of cultures living proximate to domestic livestock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Driven by supermarket price wars, retailers have been relentlessly pushing down the price that they offer to the farmers that supply them, who, when faced with this price pressure, have perceived the only option left to them is further intensification and enlargement of their farming operations and, in the case of livestock, animal numbers.

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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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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. Assess your livestock's grazing potential. Use rotational grazing practices.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The federal government provides farmers subsidies to protect them from fluctuating revenue year-by-year, but data from the nonpartisan Environmental Working Group shows that 78% of subsidies were given to the largest 10% of farm operations between 1995 and 2021. full_link READ MORE Learn more about factory farms with our guides.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

There are more than 50 equally lovely urban farms that add care, character and a touch of random surprise to other British cities. Each one is unique, springing organically from its neighbourhood and needs, but they all bring food production, green space, wildlife and – usually – livestock to the heart of the city.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

If we put money towards biogas, we’re essentially helping to subsidize and further entrench industrial livestock production,” says Chris Hunt, deputy director at SRAP and a contributor to this report, “and essentially the worst possible ways of managing waste, which is manure lagoons.”

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Photography courtesy of Pete Larson and Just a Few Acres Farms. The tips are especially helpful for folks hoping to make a go of farming on smaller plots of land. full_link READ MORE Have questions about how to transition away from factory farming? We have answers!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Livestock have the potential to be valued less for meat, dairy and wool and more for the waste they produce. Others, such as silvopasture and prescribed grazing, work to better integrate livestock and natural systems. Revealing the Problem with Factory Farming. Accessed April 13, 2023. Accessed April 27, 2023.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 15, 2025

Imagine thinking factory farmed chickens have nothing to do with bird flu. Look at hydrogenated vegetable oil, margarine, Crisco, anti-microbial soap, DDT and subtherapeutic antibiotic feeding in livestock. That people for centuries actually believed these tales as the explanations for things seems outlandish to us.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The plant was originally sold as both a cheap feed for livestock and a way to replenish soil, but eventually lost favor due to its aggressive growth. Environmental journalist Ayurella Horn-Muller examines Kudzu’s full story, and ties in the plant’s fall from grace with a U.S. history of “othering” people and things that come from far away.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The farm then creates a second source of income.” 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.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

For the uninformed, gestation crates are factory farm metal cages in which sows live their entire life. If you’re up on the news, you may remember California Prop. 12 a few years ago that outlawed the sale of pork from pigs farrowed (birthed) in gestation crates. They’re all screaming “unfair” and seeking federal intervention.

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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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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Join the Livestock Publications Council for the November Coffee and Collaboration on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 12 p.m. 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.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Reducing or eliminating the use of medically important antibiotics in livestock would slow the development of resistant bacteria, experts say, safeguarding the efficacy of important drugs for longer. “It 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.,

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“California’s subsidize-and-incentivize approach to livestock methane is costly for taxpayers and lucrative for factory farm gas producers and investors,” Phoebe Seaton, co-director of the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said in a CFS press release.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To Pro-Animal Future, the group behind Denver’s initiative, Initiated Ordinance 309 is a pilot—the first step in a plan to scale to bigger cities and subsectors of industrial farming. Sheep production in the United States makes up less than 1 percent of the nation’s livestock industry. This is typical of how policy happens in GES.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities /.slide-intro In response to a public-records request, DEQ released only 33 public complaints against livestock operations in North Carolina from January 2008 to April 2018.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities /.slide-intro In response to a public-records request, DEQ released only 33 public complaints against livestock operations in North Carolina from January 2008 to April 2018.

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