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

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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Throughout, carbon-footprint bar charts show the multiple emission sources for each food, conveying the impact of an entire supply chain at a glance. Furthermore, she examines the roots of regenerative agriculture and the many contributions made by members of marginalized groups. The book goes beyond the problems, too.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Does any of that sound familiar?

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Grey Moran A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World By Jennifer Grayson The fragility of our food system became more prominent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when supply chains struggled to stay tethered due to global trade disruptions.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 includes the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program, yet, without defined priorities or target recipients, the program may inevitably lend itself to financing large-scale operations rather than serve as a new capital product for small, scaling, or new local operations (Sec.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And what we’ve tried to do over the past two and a half years is reach out to 2,500 national and local organizations working in various aspects of food, all across the supply chain: farmers, workers, environmental justice advocates, health advocates, doctors, and other animal-centered organizations. How did it get to this point?

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