Posts Tagged ‘pigs’

Veteran Filmmaker Jan Weber Continues Her Documentary Travels

Spanning a decade of time, Jan Weber (As We Sow), continues her journey with new Farmlandia project.

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.

Joel Salatin Polyface Farm

There is probably no one left in the food and farming community who hasn’t heard the name Polyface, the Shenandoah Valley super-farm famous for its lush pastures, happy animals and natural husbandry overseen by self described “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin. The farm has been featured in books and films, including Food, Inc. and Michael Pollan’s [...]

Temple Grandin: Humane Treatment of Farm Animals (video)

Dr. Temple Grandin talks about her approach to helping livestock handling facilities provide more humane treatment of farm animals.

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 [...]

States ban practices that support CAFOs

January 8, 2010 “Several states recently banned specific practices that are common in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), taking small steps to level the playing field for more sustainable farms.” h/t @OrganicConsumer Go to Original Source…

MRSA: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Pigs, and Human Illness

March 27, 2009; The Use of antibiotics in livestock and the possible connections to the emergence of a super bug? You may have read, that in 2005, there were 18,000 known deaths in the US that resulted from a type of Staph bacteria, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), pronounced mer-sa. MRSA (Staph) is resistant to broad-spectrum [...]