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. Forty-three percent of its farms are very small — around one to nine acres — and 32% are 10 to 49 acres. farm is 464 acres.)

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garc é s has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. Watts, a former contract poultry farmer, represented everything Garc é s was against. Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming is available for purchase now.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

For domestic birds, such as poultry, I worked with total “mutt” chickens to Bourbon Red Turkeys to the coveted Ayam Cemani, a breed of chicken that is fully jet-black, inside and out. percent of America’s broiler chickens live on factory farms, only slightly higher than 99.8 What this means, however, is not clearly defined.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

Bird flu has held the world’s poultry industry in its unrelenting clutches before, causing catastrophic losses of more than 50 million birds in 2015. Obviously, the poultry industry’s showing no signs of restructuring to push pigeon quesadillas or pigeon tenders as your weeknight dinner. We don’t have all the answers to bird flu yet.

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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

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. The Good Meat® Finder is made possible with support from the ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In his debut book, Nuggets of Gold , historian Patrick Dixon offers a primer on the history of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the poultry industry, and the chicken nugget. Swiftly, an era of CAFOs began in poultry production, which still reigns today. And she could. By 1926, she had 10,000 birds.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

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., In 2016, the agency banned the use of medically important drugs on farms solely for the purpose of making animals get bigger, faster. Read More: What Happened to Antibiotic-Free Chicken?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

AUGUST 6, 2024

OSHA’s lack of regulatory authority on smaller farms dates to 1976, when a rider was attached to an appropriations bill in Congress that barred the agency from using federal funds to enforce regulations on farms with ten or fewer employees. The virus is already cropping up in poultry workers in Colorado. Stay in the Loop!

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2025

cases from March through October, 2024, and the single most common characteristic of every one was this: "all the case patients who were exposed to infected poultry were involved in depopulation activities." The study identified the 45 confirmed U.S. Anything that starts "brought to you by the CDC" should be categorically thrown out.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In comments submitted to DEQ last March, the Council also noted that the 2018 North Carolina Medical Journal study came from a research program at Duke University that received funding from a critic of factory farming. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In comments submitted to DEQ last March, the Council also noted that the 2018 North Carolina Medical Journal study came from a research program at Duke University that received funding from a critic of factory farming. The industry insists health concerns are exaggerated. “We

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