factory farming

ALEC’s Ag-Gag Laws Threaten Factory Farm Whistleblowers with Criminal Charges

ALEC’s Ag-Gag Laws Threaten Factory Farm Whistleblowers with Criminal Charges

Moyers & Company Muckrakers and activists have been working to expose the brutality of industrialized meat production since Upton Sinclair’s writing of The Jungle in 1906. But an ALEC model bill known as “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” would make it a crime to film at animal facilities—such as factory farms or slaughterhouses—with the […]

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    How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming

    How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming

    Ronnie Cummins Today, nearly 65 billion animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into CAFOs. A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the fundamental causes of global warming. And its led them to this sobering conclusion: our modern energy-, chemical- and genetically […]

    How Walmart is Taking Over the Food System

    How Walmart is Taking Over the Food System

    Institute for Local Self-Reliance Walmart now captures $1 of every $4 Americans spend on groceries. It’s on track to claim one-third of food sales within five years. Here’s a look at how Walmart has dramatically altered the food system—triggering massive consolidation, driving down prices to farmers and leaving more families struggling to afford healthy food. […]

    Groups File Motion to Stop Factory Farms from Using Waterways as Dumping Grounds

    Groups File Motion to Stop Factory Farms from Using Waterways as Dumping Grounds

    Potomac Riverkeeper A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollutants in animal manure into local waterways used for recreation, drinking and to support nearby communities. In the […]

    Mr. President: Pardon the Turkey, Not Factory Farming

    Mr. President: Pardon the Turkey, Not Factory Farming

    Pew Environment Group By Karen Steuer and Laura Rogers Tomorrow, Americans will prepare and serve about 45 million turkeys. This bounty is worthy of our thanks, but the conditions in which most of these birds were raised are not. Today, the overwhelming majority of turkeys we eat are produced in ways that endanger our environment and […]

    250,000 Demand Tyson Foods Stop Using Gestation Crates

    250,000 Demand Tyson Foods Stop Using Gestation Crates

    SumOfUs and Humane Society Almost a quarter of a million people have signed a petition to Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest meat processor and major U.S. pork supplier, created by consumer watchdog group SumOfUs.org and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) demanding the company develop plans for getting the gestation crate confinement of […]

    FACTORY FARMING SERIES PART II:  Bigger Isn’t Better

    FACTORY FARMING SERIES PART II: Bigger Isn’t Better

    Pew Environment Group By Karen Steuer Bigger Isn’t Better is Part II of a three-part series. Click here to read Part I. Click here to read Part III. Before the 1960s, America’s supply of chicken, beef, pork and eggs was produced by a multitude of farms across the country. The vast majority of these operations […]

    FACTORY FARMING SERIES PART I: Where Have All the Farms Gone?

    FACTORY FARMING SERIES PART I: Where Have All the Farms Gone?

    Pew Environment Group By Karen Steuer Where Have All the Farms Gone? is Part I of a three-part series. Click here to read Part II. Click here to read Part III. During the last 50 years, animal agriculture has gone through a seismic shift in the U.S. Long gone are the iconic scenes of American […]