Tag: Industrial Farming
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Parting the Veil: What Really Happens in Factory Farms
I studied factory farms for years. Visiting one was far worse than I imagined. Excerpted from Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy and Our Shared Destinies by Aysha Akhtar. Published by Pegasus Books. © Aysha Akhtar. Reprinted with permission from Salon.com. I was giving a talk at a conference in Oklahoma about the public…
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Organic Nearly as Productive as Industrial Farming, New Study Says
By Doug Gurian-Sherman on December 10, 2014 Originally published on Civil Eats Industrial agriculture has huge, unsustainable impacts on our environment. And while organic and other ecologically based farming systems (agroecology) have huge benefits, some have suggested that it will never produce enough food. Production is only one of the challenges for food security. But, according…
