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Climate-Friendly Food and Farming: Why We Need Labels on Factory-Farmed Food By Ronnie Cummins
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Agriculture and Climate Organic Transitions
As a citizen concerned about the health, environmental, ethical, and socio-economic hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and industrial-scale factory farms or CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations), you feel strongly that consumers have an inalienable right to know whether the food we are purchasing likely contains GM ingredients or comes from animals confined in CAFOs. Consumers are demanding clear labeling, join them today!
The Good News on Organics and Climate Change
The heretofore unpublicized "good news" on climate change, according to the Rodale Institute and other soil scientists, is that transitioning from chemical, water, and energy-intensive industrial agriculture practices to organic farming and ranching on the world's 3.5 billion acres of farmland and 8.2 billion acres of pasture or rangeland can sequester up to 7,000 pounds per acre of climate-destabilizing CO2 every year, while nurturing healthy soils, plants, grasses, trees and animals that are resistant to drought, heavy rain, pests, and disease. And as we have noted, organic farms and ranches provide us with food that is much more nutritious than industrial farms and ranches-food filled with vitamins, anti-oxidants, and essential trace minerals, free from Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), pesticides, antibiotics, and sewage sludge.
Books
OCA Director Ronnie Cummins' Essential Reads on Agriculture and Climate Change
- Foodopoly - By Wenonah Hauter
- Diet for a Hot Planet - by Anna Lappe
- CAFO - The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories - by Daniel Imhoff
- Bird Flu - by Michael Greger, M.D.
- Eating Fossil Fuels - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- Food Rebellions - by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change - by Robert Henson
- Blue Covenant - by Maude Barlow
- The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain
Times - by Carol Deppe
Links
- American Meat - American Meat is a solutions-oriented macroscopic documentary surveying the current state of the U.S. meat industry.
- Quivera Coalition - Promoting carbon farming and sustainable ranching
- Humane Society of US - Farm animal protection
- "CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations," by Doug Gurian-Sherman
- " Toward Sustainable Animal Agriculture. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America" by Fred Kirschenmann
- "Greener Pastures: How grass-fed beef and milk contribute to healthy eating," by Kate Clancy
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Video
Humane Society Author author David Kirby describes the health and environmental problems caused by concentrated animal feeding operations.
CAFO News
- 05/21/13 - Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature?
- 05/21/13 - For Climate Solution, Look to the Ground
- 05/21/13 - What Comes After Hope
- 05/21/13 - Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
- 05/20/13 - Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials
- 05/17/13 - Climate Change is Happening...So What?
- 05/15/13 - Eating As Though the Environment Mattered
- 05/15/13 - Feeding Distillers Grain to Cows: Why the Ethanol Boom Means More E. Coli Burgers
- 05/14/13 - Tenn. Governor Haslam Vetoes "Ag Gag" Anti-Whistleblower Bill
- 05/14/13 - Grassroots Campaigns Can Stop Fracking One Town at a Time
- 05/13/13 - EU Campaigners Warn Against Rise of 'Mega-farms'
- 05/10/13 - Indigenous Resistance Grows Strong in Keystone XL Battle
- 05/10/13 - Climate Chaos: Boycott Genetically Engineered and Factory-Farmed Foods
- 05/09/13 - Are We Doomed to Food Insecurity?
- 05/08/13 - 99 One-Liners That Rebut Climate Change Denier Talking Points
- 05/06/13 - The High Price of Our Fertilizer Addiction
- 05/03/13 - Mad Cow Infected Blood 'To Kill 1,000'
- 05/01/13 - The Dangers of Eating Chicken Nuggets
- 05/01/13 - You Won't Believe What's In Your CAFO Turkey Burger
- 05/01/13 - Non-Organic Foods Are Toxic: Ground Turkey Investigation
- 04/30/13 - First "Ag-Gag" Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street
- 04/25/13 - Troubled Slaughter: Big Ag Fights to Keep out Prying Eyes
- 04/24/13 - Gagging on Ag-gag Laws
- 04/24/13 - USDA Ruffles Feathers With New Poultry Inspection Policy
- 04/22/13 - The Rule of Law in Times of Ecological Collapse
- 04/22/13 - Analysis Finds 55% Ground Beef, 39% Chicken Contaminated with Superbugs
- 04/17/13 - Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on 'Superbugs'
- 04/16/13 - Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry: Corporations Not The Same As Persons With Privacy Rights
- 04/11/13 - Take the Pledge: I'm Boycotting Food from Factory Farms!
- 04/10/13 - How Holistic Mob Grazing Can Green Desertified Grasslands and Reverse Global Warming
A Conversation with Anna Lappe on climate change, industrial agriculture, and conversion to a climate-friendly food system. Read her book Diet for a Hot Planet.