factory farming

Latest Agriculture Emissions Data Show Rise of Factory Farms

Latest Agriculture Emissions Data Show Rise of Factory Farms

By Ben Lilliston New data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows a steady increase in agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions, much of it linked to industrial systems of crop production and the rise of factory farm systems of animal production. The annually updated GHG data is designed to track U.S. emissions related to the […]

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    Criminal Investigation Launched After ‘Sick Cow’ Scandal in Poland

    Criminal Investigation Launched After ‘Sick Cow’ Scandal in Poland

    A tainted meat scandal is rocking Europe after an undercover reporter revealed workers at a Polish slaughterhouse mistreating and killing sick cows and selling the beef for human consumption. Nearly three metric tons of suspect meat has reached least a dozen European Union countries, according to EuroNews, including Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, […]

    Animals, Workers and Consumers Suffer Under USDA Slaughter Programs

    Animals, Workers and Consumers Suffer Under USDA Slaughter Programs

    By Laura Cascada One of the U.S.’s most dangerous industries is becoming even more hazardous for workers, as animal welfare and consumer safety are also put on the line. The federal government is allowing more and more slaughter plants to kill animals at increasingly dangerous rates. At the end of September, the Trump administration announced […]

    A Call for the Food Movement to Rally Behind the Green New Deal

    A Call for the Food Movement to Rally Behind the Green New Deal

    By Ronnie Cummins “The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan … Half measures will not work … The time for slow and incremental efforts has long past [sic].” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then-candidate for the U.S. House of […]

    USDA Allows Animal Neglect and Abuse at Poultry Slaughter Plants

    USDA Allows Animal Neglect and Abuse at Poultry Slaughter Plants

    By Dena Jones Undercover investigations at federal poultry slaughter plants over the past decade have documented numerous instances of intentional abuse to animals, including throwing birds against walls, burying live birds in piles of dead birds, breaking birds’ legs by violently slamming them into shackles and jabbing birds with metal hooks to remove them from […]

    Undercover Investigations Will Be Legal Again at Iowa Animal Farms

    Undercover Investigations Will Be Legal Again at Iowa Animal Farms

    On Thursday the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the Iowa Ag-Gag law, holding that the ban on undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses violates the First Amendment. In 2017, a coalition of animal, environmental and community advocacy groups, including Center for Food Safety, challenged the law’s constitutionality. Federal […]

    The Storm Moved on, But North Carolina’s Hog Waste Didn’t

    The Storm Moved on, But North Carolina’s Hog Waste Didn’t

    By Emilie Karrick Surrusco It’s been nearly four months since Hurricane Florence battered the North Carolina coast, dumping 9 trillion gallons of water on the state in the span of four days. In Duplin County, home to the nation’s largest concentration of industrial hog operations, the storm’s deluge laid bare problems that persist in good […]

    Should Plant-Based Proteins be Called ‘Meat’?

    Should Plant-Based Proteins be Called ‘Meat’?

    By Melissa Kravitz Fried chicken, bacon cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizza aren’t uncommon to see on vegan menus—or even the meat-free freezer section of your local supermarket—but should we be calling these mock meat dishes the same names? A new Missouri law doesn’t think so. The state’s law, which forbids “misrepresenting a product as meat that […]