Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

The Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) invites poultry producers and food companies to take responsibility for chicken welfare. We already had very similar values concerning growing practices and have always held ourselves to a high bar regarding animal welfare standards, Nick Kienzle of LaBelle Patrimoine, tells Food Tank.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By An assessment by the U.N.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. 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.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Before members of Congress left for their August break, they initiated a flurry of activity in advance of what will likely be a sprint toward writing and then passing the legislation that shapes America’s food and agriculture system. Members of the House Ag Committee held listening sessions with farmers in Maine and Minnesota.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. In this week’s Field Report, an update on how lawmakers are gearing up for a food-and-ag sprint when they return to D.C. Unlike SNAP, it generally garners bipartisan support, since it focuses on healthy food and directs more dollars directly to farmers. To all of what follows, amen.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture. Enter the Agriculture Resilience Act, or ARA. It’s a win-win for farmers and communities.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat. It’s another part of farming, right?”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Align yourself with a supporting organization Food and Water Watch addresses factory farming on a big-picture scale. Michaelyn Mankel of Food and Water Watch Iowa says connecting with others is valuable at that broader scope, too. “If Jennifer Breon of Food and Water Watch Iowa echoes this point. “I Find yours here.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

If you really want to get to know your food, spend some time with The Seed Detective and you’ll be more literate and informed about the wonder of your vegetables. At the same time, diets are becoming increasingly ultra-processed at the expense of nutritious whole foods. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’ll offer havens of protection and nourishment to lead our culture into stable families, fertile soil, nourishing food, working faith, and overall health. A couple of years ago, after being besieged by questions about raising livestock on a small scale, I wrote POLYFACE MICRO: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale.

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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. Loopholes within drinking water laws and the agriculture lobby’s influence in Congress have prevented substantive policy reform to address the issue, according to food safety experts.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. What an amazing day for food systems at COP28 on Food, Agriculture and Water Day! Is the food culturally appropriate?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. Below are some key highlights from the Conservation Title of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. This industry presents itself as a way to produce a lot of food while keeping costs down. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. The land is a constant, withstanding generational change in personnel, methodology, and even land use. Credit: Green Left.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Regen10 is a coalition of organisations working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture. Alongside partners at the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), the GFM team are leading Regen10’s trials of its Regenerative Outcomes Framework.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

(Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture. So, when we try to farm at these very large scales.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. This industry presents itself as a way to produce a lot of food while keeping costs down. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Local Food Systems SHI trains and empowers family farmers as they transition towards sustainable farming practices. Through our programs, farmers gain the knowledge and skills to nurture the soil and the environment, ensuring a reliable food source for their families. For more sustainable tips, sign up for our newsletter.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. We should all keep an eye on her next step, whatever that might be.”

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations. And it is no accident. Author Austin Frerick.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

And therein lies a big part of the Big Ag problem: mergers and acquisitions across the food and agriculture industry have enabled big companies that touch every corner of our food system to keep getting bigger and more powerful. Big=bad when it comes to corporate power over food Big isn’t always bad.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment. Anaerobic digesters.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Avoid the never-ending scroll on streaming platforms and instead refer to our list of recommended food and farming films, especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. Reinventing Farming and Food Post-globalisation Director: Rana Foroohar Where to watch: Financial Times’ YouTube channel.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 8, 2024

The application of nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers on cropland is a foundation of industrialized agriculture. Another goal was to increase competition in the fertilizer market, where just a few firms dominate, with the hopes of lowering fertilizer prices for farmers and food costs for consumers. According to the U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 4 million readers a year 200k social reach Yale Environment 360 A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. Under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a nascent U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. From memoirs to cultural histories to journalistic inquiries that take on topics ranging from plant intelligence to school food to climate migration, here are 21 titles we hope you’ll enjoy.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlights the critical role of forests and wild foods in transforming food systems. If current trends persist, the brief warns, the degradation of forest food systems will continue to challenge global efforts to address food insecurity, biodiversity loss, and the climate crisis.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Parents rattled off reports of what they had seen at various places, from the big box outlets to the local food co-op, from high-end Whole Foods to discounters like Grocery Outlet and WinCo. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. Which brands were available? Were any stores completely out?

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Runoff from these applications, as well as from soil erosion and livestock manure, is the leading cause of river and stream pollution, the second leading cause of wetland pollution, and the third leading cause of lake pollution. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. Who wins when wetlands lose protections?

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