Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

The Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) invites poultry producers and food companies to take responsibility for chicken welfare. LaBelle Patrimoine, a poultry supplier based in Pennsylvania, sees the Commitments standards as essential to their business practices. The long-term payoff is worth the challenge, she says.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. The gospel of pastured livestock is not just a warm fuzzy notion espoused by nuts like me for giggles and kicks.

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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. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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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. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

In 2023, the Biden administration formed an interagency working group to examine consolidation in the seed industry, but that’s a long way from action to curb the seed giants’ control of this most basic of resources. Beyond meat and poultry, the larger food processing sector is similarly dominated by corporate giants.

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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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