Posts Tagged ‘CAFO’

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

The modern day Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) is both a crowning achievement of short-term human scientific prowess, and profound monumental hubris with terrible consequences unfolding now, and yet to unfold.

CUpS: Talks

Factory Farms: In The Can (video)

The technical designation is CAFO, and it stands for “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”. To their detractors, they are often referred to simply as “factory farms”. Although CAFO can be very broadly applied to farms with even small numbers of livestock, for those who are opposed to such operations, CAFO refers mainly to very large farms [...]

In The Can

Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video)

Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society.

CUpS: Talks

Nicolette Hahn Niman Champions Seismic Change of Our Industrial Food System (Video)

Nicolette Hahn Niman identifies 5 commonly held myths about our industrial food system.

Food News

As We Sow: The Corporate Farm

I started “documenting” in 2001, not “making a documentary” exactly, because I really didn’t know what it was going to end up being. The New York Times had run a series of articles about the disappearance of small towns across the Midwest, about communities drying up and farmers forced off the land. I wanted to [...]

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As We Sow (Video)

[ Editor's note: Before there was "Food Inc.", before there was "FRESH", "King Corn" and a host of other fine films about our food system, there was "As We Sow", a hauntingly beautiful short film by director Jan Weber. To purchase this DVD, please refer to details at the bottom of her post. Run-time: 23 [...]

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