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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 Most of these have been replaced by industrialized facilities controlled by large corporations that rely on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Occupy Iowa Caucus: A Democrat "Uncommitted" in 2012 or Why I Won't Caucus for Obama a Second Time

Dave Murphy | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Ows, 2008 Iowa Caucus, Occupy Iowa, Monsanto, 2012 Iowa Caucus, President Obama, Family Farmers, Occupy Iowa Caucus, Gipsa, John Edwards, Factory Farms, Occupy Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Cafos, Demoracts, Politics News
Dave Murphy

The question now for Iowa Democrats is, will they blindly stand by their man or will they express their dissatisfaction with Obama's complete failure to follow through on what he promised us during his first tour through the Iowa countryside?

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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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Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act

David Kirby | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Staph, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Bacteria in Meat, Cafos, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Food, Food Politics, Home News
David Kirby

Maybe now the average American consumer will finally take note, and demand that Congress do something. Candidate Obama ran in support of an antibiotic ban in 2008, but has done little to advance the cause since then.

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Florida: Could Photo of Pigpen Get You 30 Years in the State Pen?

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Constitution, First Ammendment, Industrial Ag, Animal Abuse, Waste Managment, Weird Florida, Hormones, Public Information, Public Records, Second Amendment, Video, Photographs, Illegal, Farms, Cafos, Florida State Senate, Constitutional Rights, Prison, Water Pollution, Sunshine Laws, Antibiotics, Senator Jim Norman, Agribusiness, Dumb Criminals, Florida, SB 1246, Freedom of Information, Green News
Scott Edwards

Senator Norman's misguided bill is yet another attempt to keep a tight, dark lid on the many, many wrongs being committed today by the factory farming industry.

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The Factory Farm Environmental Degradation and Animal Cruelty Protection Act

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Agriculture, Food, Farming, Capitalism, Farm Labor, Huffington Post, Cafos, Meat, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

Had this bill been in force a few years ago, it might well have been used to put all the people behind the famous documentary Food, Inc. in prison.

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Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century?

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Quality, Chet Culver, Monty Branstad, Cafos, 2010 Elections, Iowa Govenor Chet Culver, 2010 Election, Dead Zone, Terry Branstad, Iowa, Factory Farms, Environment, Green News
Dave Murphy

Iowans can no longer afford to have a governor, or any elected official, partying like it's 1999 on the environment.

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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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PHOTOS: True Halloween Horrors -- Scary Toxic Lagoons

The Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sewage, Ground Water, Nuclear Waste, Hog Farms, Cafos, Spills, Waste, Coal Ash, Toxic Lagoons, Coal, Slidepollajax, Toxins, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Hold your nose and run for cover! Many people think that waste from mining, nuclear power, and even sewage is out of sight, out of mind. Not so much...

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PHOTOS: Almond, Hemp, Rice, Raw And More: Your Guide To Milk

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conventional Milk, Rice Milk, Milk, Factory Farms, Grass-Fed, Almond Milk, Cafos, Hemp Milk, Health, Antibiotics, Raw Milk, Organic Milk, Rbgh, Health Benefits, Slidepollajax, Rgbh, Bovine Growth Hormone, Green News

For something so traditional, so normal, so American, milk has spurred a huge battle among the food conscious. Choosing your milk has become a stateme...

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Factory vs. Sustainable Pork Production: Two Videos, One Case for Transparency

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farms, Cafos, Industrial Agriculture, Food Politics, Pork, Pigs, Food News
Leslie Hatfield

If I'm going to eat something -- especially an animal product -- I want to know as much as I can about where it came from, what it ate, and how it was treated.

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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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For Americans on a Budget, Meats Are the New Carbs

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grocery Prices, Animal Factory, Cafos, Grocery Stores, Factory Farms, Protein, David Kirby, Food Prices, Carbs, Food News
David Kirby

When I was in my 20's, my friends and I knew that the cheapest food available was made of carbs, and we survived on mounds of mac-n-cheese and home fries for lunch, and ramen, rice and beer for dinner. But animal factory farming has changed all that.

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Food Safety in the US: We're on Red Alert

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Foodborne Illness, Food Safety, Food, Salmonella, Food Recall, Fda, Feedlots, Food and Drug Administration, Cafos, Food Safety Enhancement Act, E. Coli, Food News
Andrew Kimbrell

Illnesses caused by contaminated foods, which could be prevented with proper government oversight, are instead causing massive hospitalization and the deaths of thousands of Americans.

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Who Will Foot The Bill When The Crap-Bubble Bursts?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Factory Farming, Cafos, Waste Lagoons, Indiana, Factory Farms, Mitch Daniels, Poop Bubbles, Mega-Dairies, Green News
David Kirby

This is not a story about junk bonds or shady hedge fund schemes. It's a story about industrial-scale cow-poop and the potentially deadly, explosive methane gas it produces.

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Chicken Farmers Describe a System of Extortion and Economic Slavery

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antitrust, Usda, Agriculture Farmers, Tom Vilsack, Poultry Markets, Factory Farms, Food, Department of Justice, Cafos, Eric Holder, Green News
Regina Weiss

At the May 21st hearing, attorney General Eric Holder was urged to enforce federal antitrust laws on behalf of contract poultry growers who raise flo...

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NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Factory Farming, The Jungle, Cafo, Swine Flu, Npr, Factory Farms, Bse, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Animal Factory, Fast Food Nation, Muckraking, Mad Cow, Food Inc, Cafos, Eric Schlosser, Books News
David Kirby

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorant. We should not ignore the potential for animal factory farming to one day come back and bite us all in our collective, blissful behinds.

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Obama Keeps Two Factory Farm Promises - Will Hold "National Rural Summit"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Usda, Eric Holder Attorney General, US DOJ, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farm, National Rural Summit, Obama, Cafos, Green News
David Kirby

I learned on Friday that the administration will soon rein in Big Ag and announce a "National Rural Summit," something that candidate Obama had promised but failed to accomplish in his first 100 days.

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6 Baby Steps Toward a More Sustainable Animal Diet

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Animal Factory, Factory Farming, Sustainable Food, Cafo, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Sustainable Agriculture, Cafos, Food Politics, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Most people I speak with inherently sense that their meat and dairy should be raised as "humanely and sustainably" as possible, but don't really know what those terms mean.

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Should Animals Be Genetically Engineered So They Don't Feel Pain?

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Rights, Cafos, Poll, Food Politics, Factory Farms, Food, Genetic Engineering, Animals Suffering, Green News

The New York Times had a very interesting Op-Ed Friday, which took an unusual approach to the concern that factory farms are inhumane. Adam Shriver, a...

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Got Ethics? Dirty Dairy Exposed

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Pollan, Cafos, Alicia Silverstone, Food Inc., Dairy, Eat Well Guide, Humane Society of the US, Vegan, Milk, Cafo, Oprah, Hsus, Tara Lohan, Nightline, Alternet, Animals, Healthy Living News
Sarah Newman

You don't have to give up dairy, but you can start buying dairy from local farms that treat their animals humanely.

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News
David Kirby

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Gmos, Cafos, Michael Pollan, Corn, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

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Nicolette Hahn Niman: A Vegetarian Ranchers Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nicolette Hahn Niman, Grass-Fed, Cafos, Meat Industry, Meat, Vegetarianism, Niman-Ranch, Green News
Tara Lohan

Part personal narrative and part investigative journalism, her Righteous Porkchop is a much-needed addition to the conversation about what should be on our plates these days.

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Oklahoma Attorney General Takes on Big Poultry, Highlighting Unsustainability of Industrial Agriculture

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Farming, Waterways, Oklahoma, Agricultural Pollution, Drew Edmondson, Food Safety, Runoff, Pollution, Industrial Agriculture, Cafos, Dead Zones, Green News
Paula Crossfield

I needn't remind you that Oklahoma is a stronghold for climate change deniers like Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe. But Oklahoma could be poised to redeem itself, taking on the unsustainability of industrial agriculture.

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