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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

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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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

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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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. At 6 feet, 1 inch, he has large round eyes and a dark beard peppered with gray. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Naoki Nitta The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them By Karla T.

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