Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Most of America’s farms are dependent on prodigious amounts of fossil fuels at every stage of production. Because farm machinery is often built to last, progress to electrify those vehicles is slow even though it holds huge untapped potential to reduce agriculture’s emissions. (1) commercial and industrial fossil fuel gas. Fertilizer

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Our research project, “Reuniting the Three Sisters,” explores what it means to be a responsible caretaker of the land from the perspective of peoples who have been balancing agricultural production with sustainability for hundreds of years. The monocropping industrial agricultural systems that produce much of the U.S.

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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.” This approach promotes resilience, reduces reliance on centralized production methods, and empowers smaller-scale farmers.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions.

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Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

Fast-growing broiler chickens are bred to gain weight rapidly, prioritizing meat production over health, Julia Johnson, Head of Food Business in the United States at Compassion in World Farmingthe nonprofit organizers of the BCCtells Food Tank.

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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. If there wasn’t such a focus on yield and production in the food system, fewer animals would be crammed into tight spaces and fed poor diets, says Utesch.

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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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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. They can ask questions, learn where the produce came from, and determine what inputs were used in the production process.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA clearly delineates the need to focus on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies as well as sustainable nutrition science , an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of food production, environment and climate, and human health. And it’s about time.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Venture capitalists have poured $3 billion into the lab-grown meat industry, yet the resulting products have to be bulked up with plant protein, and are still far from palatable. In self-defense, teach yourself about the economy and technology of food production and how industry adds to and alters food.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. Looking at food production at restaurants and farms through a food justice lens, caring about the future of food means caring about people. Systems-level thinking is important, panelists said, but it’s not enough.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Already sky-high food insecurity rates in farmworker communities will likely grow even higher as climate change worsens, threatening food production and earnings. Big corporations and industrial agriculture companies should pay farmworkers fair wages and provide labor protections.

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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. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. In fact, the Toxic Substances Control Act banned them in 1979 from further production in the United States. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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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. Carlisle says race is implicated in current U.S.

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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. The snowmelt going into reservoirs could even help with hydropower production as California transitions towards a more sustainable energy future.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves suggests ten actions that could be applied at landscape-scale across Wales to enable farming to protect and enhance the environment – from rewarding nature-friendly farming practices, to investing in farmer education, rewetting peatland and increasing vegetable production to enable self-sufficiency.

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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 dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014. these days.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. grown rice brand to launch Regenerative Organic Certified products. The company was the first U.S. By 2027, they aim to transition all organic rice to regenerative organic.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through her eyes, Food and Country reveals not only the humanity behind our food system, but also the urgent need to reassess the nation’s values around food production. Rich Appetites Discover the impact of industrial agriculture on biodiversity, hunger, and small-scale farmers in Africa in this five-part short film series.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Initially imagining its product as a tool for smallholders in low-income countries, PEAT offered it for free. Plantix would need to be reorganized around producing and packaging marketable data products, and the economics never penciled out. According to PEAT, it functions with around 95 percent accuracy.

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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. The dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For the most part, they’re enjoyable and productive neighbors. Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. They don’t compete; they share. They’re interested in anything that makes life more self-reliant and independent from nefarious agendas.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

Although the state is known for hog production— hogs outnumber people 7:1 —the number of cattle in Iowa feedlots is increasing, too. And for good reason: Cattle is the top-ranked agricultural commodity in the U.S. Each year, animals in CAFOs produce twice as much waste as the entire U.S. population.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases. You can also look up recipes for DIY (Do It Yourself) hygiene and cleaning products.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The first farm bills, a product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and drought-driven Dust Bowl catastrophe. SNAP, which eats up 80 percent of the bills’ total budget, currently serves 41 million low-income Americans.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” The past 10 years have demonstrated that practical, user-facing tech on the production side can make a difference in what consumers (e.g. anyone who eats!) Crops take time to grow.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the UK, 60% of adults are either overweight or obese, a figure expected to rise to 80% by 2060, with huge costs to society in terms of lost workforce productivity, shortened lives and NHS treatments. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

(Photo: Shutterstock) Although China, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines still account for more than 95 percent of global production, farms in North America – particularly British Columbia, Alaska, and Maine – are cropping up to meet demand.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If Nebraska is a quilt, the seamstresses are its farmers – agriculture has defined the landscape of Nebraska to such an extent that you can literally see it from space. Of course, when I arrived it didn’t take me long to find out about the curiously perfect squares.

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