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Dung Beetles' Poop Preferences Revealed

Posted 04.15.2012

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By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/13/2012 03:56 PM EDT on LiveScience Dung beetles prefer the smelliest poop they can fin...

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Where Have All the Farms Gone?

Karen Steuer | Posted 05.27.2012

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 Most of these have been replaced by industrialized facilities controlled by large corporations that rely on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Feeding Our Families and Our Farmers

Mike Callicrate | Posted 12.02.2011

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Mike Callicrate

In the last 30 years, 90 percent of our pork producers, more than 80 percent of our dairymen, and more than 40 percent of our ranchers have been driven out of business. Is this what we want?

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Momentum Against Factory Farms Makes Headlines

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wayne Pacelle

The Humane Society of the United States announced that a federal judge has ordered a trial in a federal legal case we brought against a polluting egg factory farm in the Central Valley of California.

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St. Charles School's Music Booster Club To Sell Alpaca Manure

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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ST. CHARLES, Ill. — The music booster club at Central Community Unit School District 301 in St. Charles isn't bothering with bake sales and car ...

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Massive Gas Bubbles Sprout From Manure On Dairy Farms

The Wall Street Journal | LAUREN ETTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WINCHESTER, Ind.--Like many of his neighbors, farmer Tony Goltstein has to deal with the aftermath of the dairy bubble. But besides his mounting fi...

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Rwanda: Healing with Livestock

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danielle Nierenberg

Recovery is a word you hear a lot in Rwanda. Recovery -- and healing -- are also things I heard a lot about during my visit with Heifer International Rwanda. "Heifer is helping a recovery process."

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Biomass Energy From Manure, Bad Eggs Catching On In Washington

Seattle Times | Rami Grunbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Green power" comes out of the Qualco Energy biomass digester south of Monroe's suburban sprawl, but what goes in is runny, steamy and brown in the mo...

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Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simran Sethi

Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.

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