Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

These factory farms not only force animals to live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, they also produce copious amounts of manure, which can cause water pollution and other health hazards. According to the Sierra Club , “large, high density CAFOS have reduced the number of livestock farmers in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

That’s how a farmer who used to work for Perdue described his chicken house—a sight so upsetting that it led him to transition out of this kind of work, often referred to as “factory farming.” There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. The report Anaerobic digesters are not typically things that you would ever see on a small, pasture-based dairy or farm. Expanding manure biogas production was listed as a key way to reduce methane emissions in the agriculture sector.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

These practices include waste storage facilities and waste facility covers, practices intended to prevent seepage of liquid animal manure from CAFOs into local water supplies. Expensive anaerobic digesters are most often installed at CAFOs to capture methane gas from manure lagoons. Revealing the Problem with Factory Farming.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming , is available for purchase now. His name was Craig Watts and he was a chicken factory farmer, raising chickens for slaughter. My career is devoted to protecting farmed animals and ending factory farming. Now I was sitting in his living room.

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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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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. Then Friends of the Earth U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. The proposed CAFO would hold 2,400 pigs and produce as much manure equivalent as a town of nearly 7,000 people. The factory farm fights have been so divisive, pitting neighbor against neighbor.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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