Posts Tagged ‘dan imhoff’

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.

The Secret Farm Bill In Washington

What if in the name of reducing the federal deficit, taxpayers helped sponsor programs that increased the rates of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer upon the general public?

Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions-2 (video)

We would do well to listen to what Rachel Bristol, longtime CEO of the Portland Food Bank has to say on the subject of poverty and food insecurity in the U.S.

Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer Stands Up for the 90% of Local Farmers

Earl Blumenauer feels that the 2012 Farm Bill should benefit the majority of hard working farmers— not a small minority as currently exists.

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 [...]

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

The modern day CAFO, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations is both a crowning achievement of human scientific prowess, but also a profound example of monumental hubris with terrible consequences unfolding now, and yet to unfold.

Dan Imhoff Talks About Farm Bill 2012 in Seattle

March 16, 2011 A couple of weeks ago author and publisher Dan Imhoff spoke at the University of Washington about the upcoming Farm Bill. Imhoff had published Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to the Food and Farm Bill in 2007, which is an excellent resource to help anyone understand this complex piece of legislation. “The [...]

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 [...]