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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News

If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.

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Jonathan Safran Foer Argues Modern Pork Production Created H1N1

nytimes.com | Leora Broydo Vestel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Cafo, CAFOs Swine Flu, H1n1, Jonathan Safran Foer, Swine Flu, Food Politics, Green News

During his chat with Ms. DeGeneres, who is an advocate of veganism, Mr. Safran Foer said factory farming created swine flu....

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H1N1 Found in First US Commercial Swine Herd - Keep Your Eye on Factory Farms, China, and the Birds

David Kirby | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Avian Flu, Tom Vilsack, Indiana, Swine Flu, Factory Farm, Cafo, H1N1 Influenza, Usda, China, Living News

Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Halloween Horror: Cattle Fed Chicken Poop and Recycled Cow Remains

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Cafo, Consumers Union, Fda, Mad Cow Disease, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Green News

Feeding cattle chicken litter is everyday practice in feedlots. Surprisingly, this unhealthy and inhumane practice is legal and poorly monitored, creating unacceptable risks to human and animal health.

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Unchecked Swine Flu, (Sick?) CAFO Workers and Lax Regulation, Oh My

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Health, Novel H1N1, Cafo, CAFO Workers, Swine Flu, Pork Industry, Public Health, Food, Green News

Now, as the World Health Organization expects a second wave of the flu to hit the northern hemisphere in the fall, it is worth considering some of the looming questions on how CAFOs could be contributing to the occurrence of disease.

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Green News Report - July 21, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Green Building, Factory Farms, Green News Report, Wal-Mart, E. Coli, Antibiotic Resistance, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, Uranium Mining, Fish, Cafo, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Change, Chevron, China, Green News

Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!

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Food, Inc.: The Silence of the Yams

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Ag, Usda, Robbie Kenner, Michael Pollan, George Carlin, Food Inc., Cafo, Food Inc Movie, Green News

Robbie Kenner didn't mean to make a horror film when he started working on Food, Inc.. But you can't shine a light on our food chain without exposing some ugly truths.

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Not Swine Flu, Not H1N1 Virus -- Introducing Factory Farm Flu 1

John DeCock | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Agribiz, Factory Farming, Cafos, Swine Flu, Cafo, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Meat, H1n1, Green News

The name Factory Farm Flu 1 is less than accurate; many diseases have been transmitted from animals to humans by Confined Animal Feeding Operations. But we have to start somewhere.

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Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Smithfield Foods, Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu, Cafo, Factory Farms, Larry Pope, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Pork, H1n1, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initia...

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Swine Flu May Have Evolved At US Hog Farms

Grist, WSJ | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Cafo, Farming, Hog Farms, Animals, H1n1, Swine Flu, Green News

With swine flu panic sweeping the globe, scientists appear to finally be getting closer to determining its origin -- and it's not quite as clear-cut a...

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Reuters Mangles Flu Story and Blasts "Wild Theories" About "Evil Factory Farms"

David Kirby | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Smithfield, New Scientist, Reuters, Cafo, Factory Farm, H1n1, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Outbreak, Mexico, Media News

It's entirely possible that the Smithfield facility at La Gloria had nothing to do with this outbreak. But it's not exactly a "wild theory" -- Smithfield pigs are being tested for the new H1N1 strain as I write this.

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Swine Flu Counter: US Cases, Sorted By State

Center For Disease Control | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Cafo, Farming, Swine Flu Counter, Cdc, Swine Flu Us Cases, Swine Flu Cases, Swine Flu, Green News

The outbreak of disease in people caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin continues to grow in the United States and internationally. Today, C...

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Green News Report - April 28, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Swine flu protection, nuthin' but pork, said the Republicans; California's new fuel regulations threaten corn ethanol; Does ...

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Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Who Needs Bioterrorism When We've Got Manure Lagoons?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Tom Philpott, Smithfield Foods, China, Swine Flu, Confined Animal Feeding Operations, Cafo, Pandemic, Flu Pandemic, Green News

Nestle: "Our report fully documented how confined animal feeding operations promote transmission of nasty -- and often antibiotic resistant -- microbial diseases."

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Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?

David Kirby | Posted 05.26.2009 | World

Read More: University of Iowa, Avian Flu, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, Smithfield Foods, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Cafo, Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, Mexico, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Mexico City-Mexico, World News

A deadly new influenza virus has managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans. How could this happen? There are several plausible explanations.

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Change We Can Believe In, or a Second Helping of the Same-Old?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Agenda, Obama, Usda, Tom Vilsack, Cafo, New Administration, Sustainable Food, Obama Inauguration, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Sustainable, Sustainability, Food, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News

I hate to put a damper on your inaugural enthusiasm, but the time to act is now if we hope to at least have someone with an interest in building a better food system at the table.

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