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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. Johnson, 81, who lives near Lexington, Mississippi, was among thousands deemed to not qualify for settlement money, his family said.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Many of us think about factory farming or industrial agriculture as something that has been around forever, or at least for a really long time. California passed by voter referendum a bill, Proposition 12 , that would ban [in-state sale of meat and poultry resulting from] gestation crates. How did it get to this point?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And after setbacks like fraudulent grain entering the market undermined trust in organic, industry leaders believe making sure the label’s standards truly reflect consumers’ expectations is critical to organic’s growth. The Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards rule represents the biggest push to make that happen.

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The Equation

MARCH 13, 2025

Over the last two weeks, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has claimed to have the answers to increasing outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu) on US poultry farms and the sticker shock and scarcity many people have encountered when shopping for eggs.

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