archive for the 'CAFOs' Category

The CAFO one-two punch

by Elanor @ Thursday, May 1st, 2008.

I am sitting in a swanky conference center on the outskirts of Phoenix, a city that may be one of our country’s least sustainable, where the water is as scarce as the SUVs and air conditioners are numerous. But for all the shortcomings of developers who thought it would be a great idea to build […]

Bucking the CAFO tax: A plea for conscientious objection

by Elanor @ Thursday, April 24th, 2008.

Here’s a number to knock you out of that mid-day stupor: every year, taxpayers shell out between $7.1 billion and $8.2 billion to subsidize or clean up after our nation’s 9,900 confined animal feeding operations. That’s the finding of “CAFOs Uncovered,” a new report released earlier today by the Union of Concerned Scientists. That amount, […]

Mini-Digest: New transgenic pigs, Wendy’s bird burgers, sodas with gas

by Guest @ Tuesday, April 1st, 2008.

Stop busting my chops: Researchers at Texas A&M have introduced a genetically modified hog that has a pair of succulent jowls at each end. Targeted at the “foodie” market, the new animal provides twice the usual amount of the cut used to make gourmet guanciale. (Charcuterie Today)

Sing for your supper: Responding to studies linking the beef-cattle industry with deforestation, Wendy’s plans to test-market a burger made of starlings. (News on the Wing)

Smells like a free ride: EPA wants to let CAFOs off on emissions reporting

by Elanor @ Tuesday, March 25th, 2008.

In an excellent 2000 report titled "The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs," researcher Marlene Halverson of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy recounts the following stories:
On July 26, 1989, five farm workers in one family died after consecutively entering a 10-foot deep liquid manure pit on their Michigan farm….. The […]

Digest - Commentary: Fixing the eco*nomy, the whack-a-mole Averys

by Ethicurean @ Monday, March 24th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - News: EPA rolls over and smells the ammonia, corn contamination, Farm Bill stalled

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.

News about sustainable, organic, local and ethical food and farming from around the web, as well as about the icky stuff.

Non-total recall: The USDA’s lack of authority

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Monday, February 4th, 2008.

A line of 7,500 trucks stretching 85 miles. That’s what it would take to haul the nearly 300 million pounds of meat and poultry products that were recalled between January 1, 1994, and November 30, 2007, in 773 separate incidents. These eye-popping numbers come from the appendix of a Congressional Research Service […]

Bringing your work home: Poultry workers carry drug-resistant E. coli into the community

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Monday, January 21st, 2008.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been in the news a lot lately.
Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle had a front page story about the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the causes is the routine addition of antibiotics to animal feed as "growth promoters" — including some antibiotics used for treatment of humans.
In a New York Times […]

Digest - News: EU ponders Bt corn, California raw-milk battle, USDA shills for Monsanto

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, December 27th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

John Edwards knows the way to this Ethicurean’s heart

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, December 22nd, 2007.

Meat & Poultry asked the press contacts of the various presidential candidates where they stood on issues affecting protein producers. Democratic candidate John Edwards gave them a lot more than they asked for.

Digest - Blogs: Pork-barrel politicking, “drive-by” libertarianism, civil disobedience

by Ethicurean @ Monday, December 17th, 2007.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

The blame frame, part one: On corn, meat, and farmers

by Elanor @ Tuesday, December 4th, 2007.

In a recent post on Grist, Tom Philpott ran down the list of problems that this year’s Farm Bill debaters have blamed, loudly and repeatedly, on subsidies: “everything from the obesity epidemic to the explosion in CAFOs in the late 1990s to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico… [to] steamrolling farmers in Mexico, […]

Digest - News: Farm Bill “compromise,” mystery spray clouds, John Edwards gets rural

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, October 21st, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Commentary: Gray Lady trusts in Bush, some advice for Iowa and Africa

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, October 21st, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Commentary: Farm Bill compromise derided, vets and neighbors hate CAFOs, Kleckner op-ed

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 17th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

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