Pub Brief summary (Pub) Brief summary (Pub) Brief summary (Pub) Brief summary (Pub) Brief summary (Pub) News Michigan fights manure tsunami: Michigan has introduced bills to cut down factory farm pollution. Concentrated animal feeding operations in the state spread more than 4 billion pounds of untreated manure on farm fields each year — animal feces and urine laced with hundreds of toxic chemicals and potentially deadly pathogens — because the state Legislature in the 1990s made farms exempt from most environmental laws…. (New York Times) Features The Monopoly game: Tom Philpott on how, like most of the orange juice it produces, the U.S. food system is highly concentrated — and what that seemingly unstoppable trend is doing to small farmers in both the meat and vegetable industries.
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