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Industrial Agriculture

Food Fight Documents The Agri-Culture Wars

Kerry Trueman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Agribiz, Food Fight, Growing Power, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

The film Food Fight rounds up all the usual suspects to decry this rotten food system, as well as the true foot soldiers in the battle to make real food available to all of us, regardless of income or region.

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Vote Yes on Prop 2 and NO to Industrial Farming

Josh Brusin | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Animals, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Humane Society, Proposition 2, Sustainable Farming, Industrial Agriculture, Conscious Eating, Food, Chicago News
Josh Brusin

Eating is an experience, and when you know that what you are eating lived a short and miserable existence because of you it kind of ruins the taste of your food.

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You Heard It On Oprah: Factory Farms Stink

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Animal Cruelty, Humane Society of the United States, Oprah Winfrey, Animal Rights, Lisa Ling, Oprah, Industrial Agriculture, Proposition 2, Green News
Kerry Trueman

That ringing you hear is the sound of the death knell for the "don't ask, don't smell" era of factory farming.

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California Schemin'

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Farm Workers, United Farm Workers, Farming, The Humane Society, Factory Farming, Humane Society, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Prop 2, Animals, California, Humane Society of the United States, Proposition 2, Industrial Agriculture, Local Farmers, Living News
Michael Markarian

The nation's largest egg producer is also one of the dirtiest; It has been cited numerous times for spilling chicken manure and chicken parts into rivers and streams.

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The Dead Zone Diet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Biotechnology, Agribiz, Monsanto, Hypoxia, Claire Cummings, Fish, Frances Moore Lappé, Sustainability, Industrial Agriculture, Dead Zones, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Steak or salmon? Enjoy your dithering while you can, folks. It's Agribiz vs. Aquabiz, and at the moment, the farmers are beating the waders off of the fishermen.

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Warning: This Film May Give You Hives

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Honey. Beekeeping, Bees, Media That Matters, Every Third Bite, Pollination, Industrial Agriculture, Colony Collapse Disorder, Hives, HäAgen-Dazs, Entertainment News
Kerry Trueman

2008-06-03-Picture5.jpg Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.

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