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Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable,” reveals how the animal agriculture industry shielded itself from scrutiny.
The amount of meat humans eat is immense. In 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered each year. That number is now over 55 billion. Factory farming is the fastest growing method of ...
The intensive farming practices that supply animal feed for factory farms are destroying our water, air, and soil—and harming countless animals raised in food supply chains. But there is hope.
In order to ‘feed the world’ we must stop factory farming our animals by Mia MacDonald and Gene Baur, opinion contributor - 10/15/18 7:00 AM ET ...
Concentrated animal feeding operations. CAFOs are defined by the EPA as intensive feeding operations where many animals are confined and fed for at least 45 days per year (though it can be much more) ...
Factory farms are incubators for zoonotic diseases and have been linked to the spread of human pandemics like the avian and swine flu outbreaks of the early 2000s. 24 Marchese, Alyssa and Alice ...
In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to ...
And research now shows that about a third of factory farms whose animals have been exposed to the virus are getting re-infected. In other words, feeding survivors piglet smoothies may not be ...
Nearly all animals farmed in the United States — as many as 99% by some estimates — are raised on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, known as CAFOs or factory farms.. Each of these farms ...
Across the U.S., there are thousands of factory farms — also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) — where thousands of animals are confined in large buildings or open ...