Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

It also necessitates petroleum-based pesticides, from fungicides to herbicides, to ward off weeds and stop sprouting. Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.

Food 110

Food Pesticide Fertilizer Processing 110

ATTRA

OCTOBER 18, 2024

” They explore issues such as farmworker rights, factory farming, and pesticide exposure. This year’s featured films are “DOLORES,” “The Smell of Money,” “Into the Weeds,” and “Invisible Valley.”

Food 40

Food Pesticide Farming Farming 40

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.

Food 141

Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

The use of pesticides in general, and herbicides in particular, have eliminated this biodiversity habitat, which collectively accounts for 90% of the total farmed area of the UK. That is why we have witnessed such a catastrophic decline in biodiversity during my farming lifetime. That is also Roundup.

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Ploughing Cultivation Pesticide Farming 69

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.

Food 143

Food Pasture Livestock Agriculture 143

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.

Farming 144

Farming Farming Acre Food 144

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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Farming Farming Food Animal Agriculture 144