The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By destroying wetlands, industrial agriculture robs communities of natural flood protectionsjust as climate change fuels more frequent and severe floods, like those in the summer of 2024 that devastated communities, destroyed crops, and claimed lives in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

Pesticide 85

Pesticide Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 85

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Our taxpayer dollars are propping up some of the largest industrial agriculture operations in the country, allowing the big to get bigger. We need Congress to reevaluate the subsidies provided to big ag, and prioritize farmers growing and raising nutritious food for our nation.

Food 133

Food Production Crop Farming 133

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Comparing the womens approaches in each state, Kathryn Beasley details the unique ways these southern women applied their skills and the resources available to them to help their families and gain greater economic independence.

Food 133

Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

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.

Pesticide 143

Pesticide Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture Food 143

Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The monocropping industrial agricultural systems that produce much of the U.S. Our project also runs workshops on topics of interests to Native gardeners, encourages local soil health testing and grows rare seeds to rematriate them , or return them to their home communities.

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Farming Farming Seeding Food 93

ATTRA

MARCH 29, 2024

Applications will be prioritized among those who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual, and those working in communities historically exploited and harmed by the existing industrial agricultural system.

Farming 70

Farming Farming Industrial Agriculture Food 70

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

By one estimate, the industry benefits from $7 trillion in subsidies annually, making inputs like synthetic fertilizer and pesticides artificially cheap and therefore possible to use on a vast scale. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

Food 108

Food Pesticide Fertilizer Processing 108

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 97

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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Plowing 131

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

Food 116

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 116

Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co.

Farming 114

Farming Farming Food Ranching 114

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions. From mega-cities to small towns, local governments are fostering close connections with their residents and putting health and social justice at the heart of their food and climate policies, while protecting vulnerable communities.

Food 140

Food Mechanics Processing Production 140

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Planted with dwarf hybrid varieties, sprayed with pesticides, and shocked dead with glyphosate for easier harvesting by combines, this was the kind of landscapes the critics of industrial agriculture decry: one devoid of diversity, dead except for the one plant species that happens to be valued by modern humans: wheat.

Food 143

Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet. Once used on a farm, it takes significant time and effort to restore the soil to a healthy state.

Agriculture 97

Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology Farming 97

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. So if we get back to traditional foods through traditional ecological knowledge, we won’t have the full-scale destruction brought on by industrial agriculture. Our meat is laced with all kinds of hormones and antibiotics.

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Forage Food Ecology Pesticide 141

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

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

Cattle 142

Cattle Food Acre Livestock 142

The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Big corporations and industrial agriculture companies should pay farmworkers fair wages and provide labor protections. Already sky-high food insecurity rates in farmworker communities will likely grow even higher as climate change worsens, threatening food production and earnings.

Food 140

Food Construction Industrial Agriculture Agriculture 140

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

Food 130

Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 130

Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

Created in 2016 by a coalition of animal welfare groups, scientists, and industry stakeholders, the BCC sets specific requirements for stocking density, prohibiting broiler cages, as well as for conditions like light, enrichment, and clean litter.

Poultry 52

Poultry Supply Chain Food Science 52

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

“The conversation needs to shift from making industrial agriculture even more efficient to serving people rather than corporations,” says Mark Bittman, Founder of The Bittman Project and Community Kitchen and a former New York Times columnist.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Food Agroecology 98

Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze. Convention to Combat Desertification finds that between 2000 to 2030, up to 3.3

Farmland 85

Farmland Food Agroecology Agriculture 85

The Equation

MAY 1, 2024

Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year. In addition to countless ribeye steaks and chicken nuggets, Tyson also produces contaminated wastewater—over 18.5 billion gallons in 2022 alone.

Food 133

Food Poultry Processing Production 133

The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture. AFRI directs where federal research dollars ( $445 million of them in 2022) will go.

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Science Agriculture Agriculture Food 118

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to the statute, “It is the policy of this state to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of its waters to protect public health, safeguard fish and aquatic life and scenic and ecological values, and to enhance the domestic, municipal, recreational, industrial, agricultural, and other uses of water.”

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Livestock Manufacturing Manure Ruralism 52

The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By destroying wetlands, industrial agriculture robs communities of natural flood protectionsjust as climate change fuels more frequent and severe floods, like those in the summer of 2024 that devastated communities, destroyed crops, and claimed lives in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

Pesticide 52

Pesticide Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 52

The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

Here are the marker bills UCS has endorsed so far: Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) Justice for Black Farmers Act (JFBFA) Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act (PAMWA) Food and Farm Act Strengthening Local Processing Act Farm System Reform Act Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act Protect America’s Children from Toxic (..)

Food 99

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 99

The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Food 106

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A recent report from McKinsey finds that agriculture has the single largest impact on the environment of any economic sector. The report lays out 47 concrete actions that agriculture businesses can take to restore Earth’s ecological balance— while maintaining a positive return-on-investment.

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Nutrient Pollution Agriculture Agriculture Food 128

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell. The trees shaded and protected the chickens. anywhere in the world.

Poultry 64

Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 64

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through conversations with farmers and food systems experts, Foroohar highlights the urgent need for localized economies, regulatory safeguards, and the creation of stronger, more sustainable industries. Rich Appetites examines how billionaire philanthropic promote chemical-intensive agriculture model globally.

Food 131

Food Agriculture Agriculture Farming 131

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

With stories from around the world, the book showcases the methods these farmers have found to work with natural forces and regenerate the land we all rely on to feed us.

Food 133

Food Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain 133

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Agricultural producers have a greater impact on water quality than people in any other industry. Agriculture consumes and interacts with more total water than any industry, both in total usage and via the water interacting with the land under our control.

Pesticide 52

Pesticide Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture Agriculture 52

The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

5138 (Industrial Agricultural Accountability Act), and S.3285 There are some bills that we are supporting because they support farmworker communities, such as S.3283 3283 (Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act), S.5138 3285 (Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act).

Pesticide 115

Pesticide Mechanics Food Science 115

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.

Animal Agriculture 105

Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Manure 105

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. Many, many more need to follow. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business.

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Ruralism Livestock Supply Chain Meadow 99

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Tucker advises people to tell their stories without contributing to polarizing anti-agriculture media narratives. “I I think that it’s really important to differentiate between small- and family-scale farmers and industrialized agriculture.

Farming 138

Farming Farming Processing Food 138

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145