Food Politics

MARCH 19, 2024

This editorial is talking about industrial agricultural producers—Big Ag—not small organic farmers using regenerative principles. The editorial points out (my translation) that the EU spends about a third of its annual budget on subsidizing industrial agriculture. Let’s stop right here at “farmers.”

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

It may sound dramatic, but if we become a snake farming country, we should be prepared for the possibility of rogue pythons on the loose, eating whatever other animals (farm or pet) they come into contact with. To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. Clapp explains that, in addition to food security, territorial markets provide diverse livelihoods to millions of people—including producers, traders, and food processors.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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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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 (..)

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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.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 108

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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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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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.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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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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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).

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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.

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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.

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Farming Farming Processing Food 138

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. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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