Tag: factory farms
Higher cancer rates tied to factory farm counties as new study...
Yale researchers found elevated cancer rates in heavily concentrated CAFO counties in California, Iowa, and Texas, adding urgency to concerns about manure waste, nitrate contamination, and rural drinking water safety.
Ventilation shutdown is one of the cruelest ways to kill animals
The least humane way of culling poultry and pigs has become increasingly common.
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels...
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
The rising tide of factory farms: A look at the growing...
There has been a 29 percent increase in cattle farms with 5,000 or more cattle since 2012, and a 17 percent increase in the largest chicken farms.
The animal feed industry’s impact on the planet
The diet of factory-farmed animals is linked to environmental destruction around the globe.
Tyson Foods uses land twice the size of New Jersey to...
“When a single company has leverage over so much farmland, its actions have substantial consequences."
The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals.
Cory Booker proposes to shut down new factory farms
"Farmers and ranchers need a marketplace that compensates them fairly and Senator Booker's Farm System Reform Act is a big step in the right direction.”
If factory farm conditions are unhealthy for animals, they’re bad for...
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people.
The scary new math of factory farm waste
Factory farms are exempt from reporting requirements under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Now a new tool can provide solid evidence of the environmental harm they can cause.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
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Women leaders and Trump 2.0.