Sentences with phrase «animal feeding operations of»

Another problem with intensive confined animal feeding operations of all kinds, whether for farmed fish or for cattle, is not what gets extracted from the environment but what gets put in it.

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On average, this program diverts over 150,000 pounds of food to hunger relief charities, composters, and animal feed operations weekly.

«Shoppers, who passionately support the ideals and values represented by the organic label, understandably feel betrayed when they see photos of these massive CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) masquerading as organic,» Kastel added.

The animal sources of saturated fats are best consumed from healthy animals grazed on pasture, as opposed to raised in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations).

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

To help boost production, Cuomo announced plans Wednesday to loosen restrictions on dairy farmers by increasing from 200 to 300 the number of cows that farmers can keep without needing pricey «Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation» permits.

Industrial - scale farms that raise animals for food — called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), in the parlance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — have a number of documented impacts on the environment, mostly from the massive quantities of manure they produce.

Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.

Modern animal feeding operations also often put very large numbers of cows, chickens, or other animals in close quarters, sometimes in a single building.

Many of the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) dairy farms are creating overproduction of milk for these dairy cows, which can result in infection or mastitis of the cows» udders.

Also, land where chicken manure from concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) was used as fertilizer would also contain higher levels of arsenic.

Not only are antibiotics overused in medicine, the vast majority of these drugs enter you via livestock — you consume antibiotics every time you eat meat from an animal raised in a confined animal feeding operation (CAFO).

Bioaccumulation occurs naturally but is worse in commercial animal feeding practices where the by catch of fish and products from slaughtering operations are fed back to animals.

When mentioning factory farms or industrialized agriculture we think of CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) or acres and acres of wheat, corn and soy.

The Foundation supports raising animals on pasture as much of the year as possible, and opposes confinement operations, feedlots, debeaking, growth hormones, routine antibiotics in feed, inappropriate feed such as soy, and other practices that harm animals» health and well - being, harm the environment, and result in animal foods that are not optimally nutritious for humans.

This also means, of course, that bone broth, a highly nutritious food, must be made from grass - fed beef rather than from the large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Where there's obesity in large amounts of the population, there's a very good chance you'll find misguided and destructive eating habits such as low - fat diets along with too much processed, CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) meat and not enough vegetables and healthy sources of fat.

As noted by Sally Fallon, chickens raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) tend to produce stock that doesn't gel, so you'll be missing out on some of the most nourishing ingredients if you use non-organic chicken bones.

The only answer is to increase the number of CAFO — concentrated animal feeding operations — where animals are injected with growth hormones and anti-biotics.

The Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit and Operation Feed Fido reserve the right to deny someone for support.

It's estimated that the cattle industry loses about $ 3 billion each year in lost weight gains, poor feed conversion and increased disease because of internal parasites.1 With the financial impact and animal welfare concerns on cattle operations, it is important for producers to understand parasite control, as well as the misconceptions about parasite control.

Operation Feed Fido is a subsidy program through Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit in Dearborn to provide pet food and supplies to families in need.

Rawhide is a by - product of the CAFO — or concentrated animal feeding operation, the bucolic term for today's industrial farm.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

Support from Animal Farm Foundation has allowed Companion Animal Advocates to further its mission by awarding a grant of $ 3,700 to be used to purchase pet food for our Operation Feed A Pet program.

Feeding, sheltering, treating sick animals and providing shelter to strays, lost pets and injured animals takes a huge amount of volunteers to keep the operation running.

January - February • HSMO's Disaster Response Team sets up animal rescue operations in New Madrid to assist with feeding, watering and sheltering for pets of families with no water or electricity in New Madrid, Butler and Pemiscot Counties.

Related In case you missed it, Jedediah Purdy, a Duke law professor and writer, proposed that slaughterhouses and industrial - scale livestock feeding operations should stream video of their operations to obviate the need for secretive filming operations by animal welfare campaigners or journalists.

A freshman team is working with Pace campus organizations to increase awareness of the concentrated animal feeding operations, also known as CAFOs, that supply much of the poultry and meat in school cafeterias (not to mention America's supermarkets and restaurants):

The event, «Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs — A Fresh Look,» * is part of FoodYou, a year - long initiative of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies (where I've been based since early 2010) that is designed to focus students, faculty and staff on the under - appreciated back story behind our food choices and habits, from the «concentrated animal feeding operations» (also called CAFOs) that supply most meat and poultry to the costs that come with food waste.

AFOs that meet the regulatory definition of a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) are regulated under the NPDES permitting program.

«The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has blocked an attempt to rein in emissions from concentrated animal feeding operations in the state.»

Also known as factory farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations G), these facilities confine thousands (and, in some cases, hundreds of thousands) of animals in cramped conditions without access to the outdoors.

Specifically under fire are concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, the large - scale feedlots where thousands of dairy cattle, poultry and pigs are confined for their entire lives.

A federal district court in Washington state has found a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in violation of the Clean Water Act and is forcing it to implement stricter pollution... Read More

The latest issue of O Magazine features an eight - page spread about Lynn Henning's heroic battle against CAFOs — concentrated animal feeding operations that hold thousands of animals in small, confined spaces.

I will admit that even I have lost myself in all the research pointing to the dark side of concentrated animal feeding operations.

As Carolina Lucas points out in today's Guardian, the last time swine flu broke out in 1988, the finger was pointed to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) as one of the culprits - close quarters and cramped conditions with human handlers moving in and among the animals are all ready ways for contagion to spread.

Those crops have awful pesticide runoff that contaminate waterways, not to mention the waste generated by keeping large numbers of cows in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operation).

But in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), animal waste is not cycled through the farm since there's simply too much of it.

A 13,000 head dairy concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) to be sited next to Minidoka has landed it on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of American's Most Endangered Historic Places.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of small pasture - based dairies have disappeared, their production replaced by CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)-- crowded industrial facilities that use methods linked to a variety of health and environmental problems, from antibiotic resistance to «dead zones» in coastal waterways.

Defense of animal feeding operations in litigation arising from claims of common law nuisance and trespass.

These include federal authority over waters of the U.S., wetlands, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), water quality standards, and conservation issues related to the farm bill (such as swampbuster).