CAFOs vs. Free Range
Demand Labels on Factory-Farmed Meat
Factory farms, or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), are a disaster for the environment and our health. Nearly 65 billion animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into CAFOs, where they are literally imprisoned and tortured in unhealthy, unsanitary and unconscionably cruel conditions. Sickness is the norm for animals who are confined rather than pastured, and who eat GMO corn and soybeans, rather than grass and forage as nature intended.
Commercials featuring upbeat music, smiling farmers, and anthropomorphized chickens—ads generated by companies like Foster Farmers and Pilgrim’s Pride—help make customers feel good about buying some of the nearly 40 billion pounds of chicken produced annually in the United States.
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More than half of U.S. consumers (58%) are more concerned about food animal welfare now than they were just a few years ago, according to a recent report, “Animal Welfare: Issues & Opportunities in the Meat, Poultry & Egg Markets in the U.S.”
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Maryland has become the second U.S. state to pass a law banning the routine use of antibiotics in healthy livestock and poultry, a move aimed at battling the rise of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as "superbugs."
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Nearly half of Americans took at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days,1 but chances are most of them did not give much thought to where those drugs came from. Unbeknownst to many, most drugs taken by Americans are not made in the U.S. but, rather, come from bulk drug manufacturing facilities in places like China and India.
Hyderabad, India, is one particularly prolific city for
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Factory farming is bad for animals, the environment and our health.
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Roughly 200 experts in disciplines from nutrition to animal welfare are calling on the World Health Organization to take a more serious look at the impact of industrial livestock production on human health and the climate.
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In the National Geographic film, "Before the Flood," actor, environmental activist and United Nations messenger Leonardo DiCaprio explores what must be done to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on planet Earth.
Read moreThe vast majority of the food produced in the United States comes from industrial-sized confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Ironically, there’s a good chance you haven’t seen one
Read moreIn an editorial on March 25, we argued that as long as proposed new feedlots in Goodhue and Winona counties meet all state and local regulations and fulfill all permitting requirements, then the "not in my backyard" argument" is no basis for denying the permit application.
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The state’s new Democratic governor vetoed a bill to limit plaintiff compensation in CAFO nuisance lawsuits, though the Republican-dominated legislature could overturn the veto as early as this week.
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