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Obama Campaign Stop at Factory Farm Propaganda Site, Billed as 'Grassroots Event'

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Farming, President Obama, Paul R Knapp Animal Learning Center, Cafo, Genetically Engineered Foods, Burger King, Antibiotics in Meat, Barack Obama, Gestation Crates, 2007 Iowa Caucus, Family Farm, Mcdonalds, Iowa State Fair, Factory Farm, Iowa, Antibiotics, Hillary Clinton, Gmos, Election 2012, Video, Green News
Dave Murphy

By showing up at the Paul R. Knapp "Animal Learning Center," President Obama and his staff show that they are out of touch with the needs of rural Iowans and likely to continue to plow down their unsustainable path of supporting the industrial agribusiness lobby.

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Where Have All the Farms Gone?

Karen Steuer | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Animal Antibiotics, Cafos, Cafo, Antibiotics, Nutrient Pollution, Manure, Industrial Agriculture, Antibiotics in Meat, Antibiotics Livestock, Green News
Karen Steuer

Long gone are the iconic scenes of American landscapes dotted with family farms and red barns. Most of these have been replaced by industrialized facilities controlled by large corporations that rely on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Lynne Peeples

Going Hog Wild: Weaning Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Out Of Pork

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Staph Infection, Organic Food, Livestock, Agriculture, Superbugs, Mrsa, Pigs, Cafo, Antibiotics, Pork, Green News

After nearly succumbing to an antibiotic-resistant infection contracted from one of his hogs, Russ Kremer went cold turkey. He exterminated his diseas...

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'Green News Report' - September 29, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Wangari Maathai, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Belt Movement, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Rick Perry, Radiation, Engineering, Tar Sands, Oil Spill, Mountaintop Removal, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Fema, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Energy Efficiency, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Japan, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solar Decathlon, Gibson Guitars, Radioactivity, Lobbying, Pakistan, Texas, Peak Coal, Cafo, Bpa, Logging, Santa Fe, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate c...

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Factory Farms: Is it Time To Put CAFOs Out to Pasture? (Video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Manure Lagoons, Cafo, Factory Farms, Dan Imhoff, Antibiotic Overuse, Factory Farming, Cafos, Water Pollution, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

The primary purpose of a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation is to feed livestock and prepare them as quickly and inexpensively as possible for slaughter.

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Does Factory Farming Have a Future?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: USDA Policy, Factory Farms, Dr. Marion Nestle, Slidepollajax, Cafo, Food News
Kerry Trueman

Most people like meat and want to eat it, and do so the minute they get enough money to buy it. I think a more realistic question is this: Can factory farming be done better?

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Lindy & Grundy, Your Typical Neighborhood Butchers, Open Shop

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Grass-Fed, Sustainability, Butcher, Grundy, Lindy, Vegetarian, Slideshow, Cafo, Lindy and Grundy, Eating Meat, Meat, Food News
Alexis C. Jolly

Dining on atypical cuts may seem to be solely the domain of foodies, snobs who use food as cultural capital. I've met people like that and, yes, they're assholes.

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CAFO Debates Escalate

Slashfood | Clare Leschin | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Food Health, Food Politics, Epa, Clean Water Act, Cafo, Missouri, Knox County, Food Safety, Antibiotics in Meat, Food News

It's a particularly tense debate being played out in rural communities across the country, but most recently at a heated meeting in Knox County, Misso...

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How CAFOs Take Their Toll On Humans, Too

Wired | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Superbug, Community Health Effects of Industrial Hog Operations, Hog Farms, Confined Animal Feeding Operations, Cafo, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Maryn McKenna, Food Safety, Chieho, Food News

When I talk about farming, I usually focus on antibiotic over-use and the way that it stimulates the emergence of drug-resistant organisms. That's par...

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PHOTOS: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Dan Imhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cafo, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Eating Meat, Feedlots, Industrial Farming, Slidefullscreen, Food News
Dan Imhoff

CAFOs are a perverse inversion of our idea of family farms with pigs rolling in the mud, cows grazing in pastures, roosters crowing from fence posts, and farmers interacting with the animals.

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Court to Governor Martinez -- No One Is Above the Law

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Water, Cafo, New Mexico, Water Pollution, Dairy, Green News
Regina Weiss

Emails and campaign contributions detail influence of dairy industry Proclaiming that "No one is above the law," New Mexico's Supreme Court reinstate...

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New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez: Our Water's Polluted? Let Them Drink Milk!

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, New Mexico, Water Pollution, Susana Martinez, Cafo, Factory Farm, Scott Walker, Groundwater, Drinking Water, Dairy, Green News
Regina Weiss

Ending last year's pitched battle between industrial dairy's desire to avoid regulation and the public's right to clean, safe drinking water, New Mexi...

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Your Holiday Ham -- Raised on Suffering, Salmonella and Drugs?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Usda, Factory Farming, Cafo, Antibiotics, Russia, Salmonella, Pork, Listeria, Antibiotics in Meat, Park Slope Food Coop, Smithfield Animal Cruelty, Smithfield Pork, Smithfield Pig Abuse, Food News
David Kirby

Pig producers who sell meat to Russia must wean their animals off antibiotics at least two weeks prior to slaughter. Japan requires a four-week flush-out period. This begs the question, what do the Russians and Japanese know about meat that we don't?

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Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sows, Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, Sweden, Factory Farming, Hogs, Hsus, Factory Farms, Cafo, Smithfield, Pork, Green News
David Kirby

Pork shoulder at my local supermarket costs 99 cents a pound, but zucchini cost $1.99 a pound. Why? Because American factory farms mass produce swine with such efficiency that the cash value of a pig's life has dwindled downward.

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A Story of Almosts

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Quality, Cafos, Maryland, Perdue Farms, CAFO Workers, Clean Water Act, Chesapeake Bay, Environment, Cafo, Chickens, Pollution, Green News
Scott Edwards

Chesapeake Bay is almost dead. And for that we have, in part, Perdue to thank.

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Factory Farm v. Historic Preservation

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Japanese-American-Internment-Camps, Cafo, Factory Farms, Racism, Maureen Dowd, Historic Preservation, Japan, Idaho, National Parks, Food News
Regina Weiss

Idaho judge ignores a centennial affront to the descendants of Japanese farmers Traveling to a WWII internment camp Maureen Dowd's New York Times co...

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Meathead To Go Meatless: Call Me Potatohead

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food News, Culinary, Vegetarian, Barbecue, Beef, Vegan, Factory Farms, Ovo-Lacto, Cooking, Party, Bbq, Food, Goldwyn, Eating, Grilling, Cookout, Slidepollajax, Meathead, Barbeque, Dinner, Steroids, Cafo, Hormones, Antibiotic, Union of Concerned Scientists, Food News
Meathead

Will I change the world? No chance. But this meatlover's voice is one more in a growing chorus and perhaps together we can change farming in the US.

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A Winning Issue for Obama in 2010: Factory Farm Reform

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farm, Cafo, Antibiotics, Antitrust, David Kirby, Obama, Farm Subsidies, Green News
David Kirby

If President Obama really wants to champion a bipartisan issue, he should consider tackling the worst excesses of industrial animal agriculture, better known as factory farming.

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Right Wing Paper Praises Factory Farm Book

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Elizabeth Rodgers, Organic Eggs, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Cafos, Washington Times, Cafo, Factory Farms, Book Reviews, David Kirby, Media News
David Kirby

If a conservative newspaper can write warmly in favor of factory farm reform - something that Barack Obama promised on the 2008 trail - maybe it can emerge as a truly bipartisan issue.

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Meat Or No Meat: Tell Us What You Think And Why

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carnivore, Vegetarian, Health, Cafo, Vegan, Environment, Omnivore, Peta, Diet, Meat, Meatless, Eating Meat, Lierre Kieth, Omnivore's Dilemma, Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Pollan, Vegetarian Myth, Slidepollajax, Food News, Lisa Viger, Food News
Meathead

There are books on both sides of the issue, but we would like to see point and counterpoint side by side. We would also like to debunk some myths.

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Biography of a Pork Chop: David Kirby's Animal Factory, and the Not-So-Hidden Costs of Cheap Food

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Dairy Farm, Farming, Sustainable Food, Dairy, Agriculture, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, David Kirby, Animal Factory, Chicken, Food Politics, Cafo, Sustainability, Pork, Civil Eats, Ragbrai, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

Here in Iowa we have an event called RAGBRAI - The Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa - the oldest, largest and longest non-competitive...

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Drugs, Poisons and Metals in Our Meat -- USDA Needs A Major Overhaul

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cafo, Prions, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Food Safety, Residues in Food, Heavy Metals, Antibiotic Resistance, Epa, Usda, Mad Cow, Fda, Factory Farm, Antibiotics, Fsis, Health, Beef Safety, Michelle Obama Health, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Washington dumped some more bad news Friday afternoon when the USDA's Office of Inspector General issued a damning and unsettling report on the department's "National Residue Program for Cattle."

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You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Animal Feed, Usda, Fda, Cafo, Factory Farm, Prions, Bse, Obama, Cattle Feed, Mad Cow Disease, Chicken Manure, Animals, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

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The Cruelty of Industrial Egg-riculture

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa Egg Hatchery, Eggs, Iowa, Video, Humane Society, Food Politics, Hatchery, Cafo, Food, Hsus, Indstrial Farming, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

There are nearly 20 times as many hens here in Iowa as there are people, producing a shade over 14 billion eggs a year. As one might expect, their living conditions are less than ideal.

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Gratifying Reviews for Animal Factory

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Animal Factory, David Kirby, Cafo, Factory Farm, Books News
David Kirby

When you work hard for three long years, researching and writing a non-fiction book and hoping that it might be well-received, if not a financial wind...

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