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.
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September 4, 2006
In recent decades, livestock and poultry production in the United States has undergone a transformation that has serious environmental consequences.
Traditional farms increasingly have been replaced by commercial animal growing operations designed to maximize profits through economies of scale. The largest 5 percent of these farm factories are called "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs.
Each year, CAFOs generate an estimated 300 million tons of manure containing an array of contaminants that seep into waterways and groundwater in 29 states, including Read more
Traditional farms increasingly have been replaced by commercial animal growing operations designed to maximize profits through economies of scale. The largest 5 percent of these farm factories are called "concentrated animal feeding operations," or CAFOs.
Each year, CAFOs generate an estimated 300 million tons of manure containing an array of contaminants that seep into waterways and groundwater in 29 states, including Read more
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September 7, 2006
MUNCIE -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and several Hoosier agricultural organizations are firing back in the public relations battle over concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
The Indiana Soybean Board last month inserted an eight-page brochure into the Hartford City News-Times promoting livestock and exposing common myths about CAFOs. The brochure includes a letter from the governor, who wants to double Indiana's pork production.
The brochure debunks "common myths," such as, "Modern livestock farms produce huge amounts of waste that pollute our water," " Read more
The Indiana Soybean Board last month inserted an eight-page brochure into the Hartford City News-Times promoting livestock and exposing common myths about CAFOs. The brochure includes a letter from the governor, who wants to double Indiana's pork production.
The brochure debunks "common myths," such as, "Modern livestock farms produce huge amounts of waste that pollute our water," " Read more
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June 15, 2006
Think pork. Sizzling bacon and breakfast sausage. Juicy chops and ribs and robust holiday hams.
The pork capital of the planet is this tiny town in the Cape Fear River basin, not far from the South Carolina border. Spending a few days in Tar Heel and the surrounding area - dotted with hog farms, cornfields and the occasional Confederate flag - is like stepping back in time. This is a place where progress has slowed to a crawl.
Tar Heel's raison d'etre (and the employment anchor for much of the region) is the mammoth plant of the Smithfield Packing Company, a million- Read more
The pork capital of the planet is this tiny town in the Cape Fear River basin, not far from the South Carolina border. Spending a few days in Tar Heel and the surrounding area - dotted with hog farms, cornfields and the occasional Confederate flag - is like stepping back in time. This is a place where progress has slowed to a crawl.
Tar Heel's raison d'etre (and the employment anchor for much of the region) is the mammoth plant of the Smithfield Packing Company, a million- Read more
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May 15, 2006
All bird flu viruses seem to start out harmless, arising out of the perpetual, benign, stable reservoir of innocuous waterfowl influenza. They begin as mild, low grade, so-called LPAI viruses, which stands for low pathogenicity avian influenza. H5 and H7 viruses, however, have the potential to mutate into virulent, high-grade "fowl plague" viruses, now known as HPAI The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) consider it "prove[n]"(1) that once low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses gain access to poultry facilities, Read more
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May 11, 2003
PAULDING, Ohio, May 8 Robert Thornell says that five years ago an invisible swirling poison invaded his family farm and the house he had built with his hands. It robbed him of his memory, his balance and his ability to work. It left him with mood swings, a stutter and fistfuls of pills. He went from doctor to doctor, unable to understand what was happening to him.
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
"I never related it to the hogs Read more
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
"I never related it to the hogs Read more
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