Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Planted with dwarf hybrid varieties, sprayed with pesticides, and shocked dead with glyphosate for easier harvesting by combines, this was the kind of landscapes the critics of industrial agriculture decry: one devoid of diversity, dead except for the one plant species that happens to be valued by modern humans: wheat.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions. From mega-cities to small towns, local governments are fostering close connections with their residents and putting health and social justice at the heart of their food and climate policies, while protecting vulnerable communities.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Agricultural producers have a greater impact on water quality than people in any other industry. Agriculture consumes and interacts with more total water than any industry, both in total usage and via the water interacting with the land under our control.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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The Equation

MAY 1, 2024

Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year. In addition to countless ribeye steaks and chicken nuggets, Tyson also produces contaminated wastewater—over 18.5 billion gallons in 2022 alone.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Big corporations and industrial agriculture companies should pay farmworkers fair wages and provide labor protections. Already sky-high food insecurity rates in farmworker communities will likely grow even higher as climate change worsens, threatening food production and earnings.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

Here are the marker bills UCS has endorsed so far: Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) Justice for Black Farmers Act (JFBFA) Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act (PAMWA) Food and Farm Act Strengthening Local Processing Act Farm System Reform Act Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act Protect America’s Children from Toxic (..)

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

However, industrial agriculture — characterized by the use of heavy tillage, intensive monocropping, and excessive grazing — has resulted in the degradation of the very soils that sustain our food supply. CONTENT SOURCED FROM LEARN LIBERTY Written by: Max Payne May 19, 2023 The connection between a farmer and their land is unmatched.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

Currently, it only prioritizes the impacts of climate change (such as floods, droughts, and extreme weather) on agriculture. AFRI directs where federal research dollars ( $445 million of them in 2022) will go.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. Many, many more need to follow. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through conversations with farmers and food systems experts, Foroohar highlights the urgent need for localized economies, regulatory safeguards, and the creation of stronger, more sustainable industries. Rich Appetites examines how billionaire philanthropic promote chemical-intensive agriculture model globally.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

(Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture. So, when we try to farm at these very large scales.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

5138 (Industrial Agricultural Accountability Act), and S.3285 There are some bills that we are supporting because they support farmworker communities, such as S.3283 3283 (Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act), S.5138 3285 (Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act).

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. So if we get back to traditional foods through traditional ecological knowledge, we won’t have the full-scale destruction brought on by industrial agriculture. Our meat is laced with all kinds of hormones and antibiotics.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to the statute, “It is the policy of this state to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of its waters to protect public health, safeguard fish and aquatic life and scenic and ecological values, and to enhance the domestic, municipal, recreational, industrial, agricultural, and other uses of water.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick Island Press (March 26, 2024) Few books about America’s industrial agriculture system and food industry uncover the billionaires behind its biggest corporations.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell. The trees shaded and protected the chickens. anywhere in the world.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion. Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

In 2023, the Biden administration formed an interagency working group to examine consolidation in the seed industry, but that’s a long way from action to curb the seed giants’ control of this most basic of resources. But as industrialized agriculture is increasingly implicated for its own climate contribution—agriculture accounted for 9.4%

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The environmental impacts of certain types of livestock production and other industrial agriculture are well-known. Those of us who have the resources to do so need to make food choices that align with regenerative values, panelists said during a great discussion at the Food4Climate Pavilion.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Qualifications Educational and Work Experience High school diploma or equivalent At least 2 years experience working in a marketing or communications position Experience working with the local food industry, agriculture or related fields preferred.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate.

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