Posts Tagged ‘CAFO’

Considering the True Costs of Raising Pigs (video)

Considering the True Costs of Raising Pigs (video)

Sometimes, lower prices at the supermarket come at a higher cost to society that many of us fail to realize.

Pig Farming Matters

Pig Farming Matters

I learned that over 90 percent of pigs in raised in confinement were continually administered antibiotics in their daily water or feed.

Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections 2 (video)

Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections 2 (video)

In part 2, Kathy Hessler, Director of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland (Oregon), discusses some of the important work that is being done to try and address the problems associated with factory farms. According to Hessler, this effort involves a large coalition of folks from different states, as [...]

Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections (video)

Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections (video)

The director of the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis and Clark Law School, discusses the animal welfare laws pertaining to factory farms.

Slow Food USA Invites You to Take the $5 Challenge

Slow Food USA Invites You to Take the $5 Challenge

Many of us may have succumbed over the years to fast food – it’s cheap and it’s, well, fast! But there are alternatives…

The Unconventional Harvest: Conventional Dairy Farmer Art Thelen

The Unconventional Harvest: Conventional Dairy Farmer Art Thelen

Art Thelin has worked on a Wisconsin dairy farm just outside the town of LaFarge since before he could read or write. Dairy farming is in his blood.

Six Speak Out on Preventing Cruelty on the Farm

Six Speak Out on Preventing Cruelty on the Farm

May 11, 2011 A variety of voices are being raised on NYTime’s ‘Room for Debate‘ opinion page this week, with the subject header being Preventing Cruelty on the Farm. This is an important topic that warrants discussion as a number of states consider changing laws that prohibit photographs or filming of a farm without that [...]

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations—CAFO’s: Dan Imhoff Speaks Out-2 (video)

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations—CAFO’s: Dan Imhoff Speaks Out-2 (video)

Editorial In part 2, Dan Imhoff continues his talk about CAFO’s to a Friends of Family Farmers audience concerned about the health and wellbeing of their communities, and who support the creation of more sustainable, and environmentally healthy alternatives from that of our heavily industrialized, food system. Much of Imhoff’s talk centers around ideas that [...]