CAFO: As Dan Imhoff explains in part 1 of this video— editor of the new (coffee table size) book CAFO, a large body of illuminating essays, and full spread pages of (full-throttled) images depicting a litany of inhumane livestock conditions and their effects—the toll of these CAFO operations upon local communities, public health, and the environment obliterates any supposed economic advantages of such a system. Only through large federal subsidies (in the Farm Bill), and by ignoring a range of hidden (or largely obscured) costs that are ultimately borne by the taxpayer and eater, can their existence be cost justified.
Read the full posts:
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations—CAFO’s: Dan Imhoff Speaks Out
- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations—CAFO’s: Dan Imhoff Speaks Out-2
- Factory Farms: In The Can
Farm Bill 2007-(although these interviews took place in 2007, the underlying principles of how the federal Farm Bill legislation works, its overall importance to the general economy, and why final passage of a farm bill does not necessarily ensure that all its provisions are enacted, the information that Imhoff provides is still considerably relevant today.)
Read the full posts:
- A Conversation with Dan Imhoff: An Introduction to the Farm Bill-Part 1
- A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 2: Historical Roots and Evolution of the Farm Bill
- A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 3: The System Is Broken
- A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 4: Shifting Winds
- Dan Imhoff: Why Is The Farm Bill So Important?
- A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 6: What Can You Do?