Sentences with phrase «by factory farming»

This drastically cuts down your meat intake, and therefore drastically cuts down the amount of meat we as a country raise, the amount of pollution generated by factory farming, the amount of fossil fuel going into raising corn which goes into raising meat.
Factory Farmed Fuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaced.
At the same time, the coming changes clearly suggest that, to the extent possible, we should be eating locally and regionally grown food — to minimize the CO2 generated by factory farming and long - distance food transport.
They see, for example, what's going on with all the hate being thrown at the HSUS when they express concern for farm animals (even though most of this hate is a campaign being funded by factory farming interests) and they think, «Oh no!
I'm so grossed out by factory farming after reading his book, that I find myself happily, fully plant - based.
NOTE: Current demand for pork, bacon and ham in Australia can only be met by factory farming.
NOTE: Current demand for eggs in Australia can only be met by factory farming.
NOTE: Current demand for chicken meat in Australia can only be met by factory farming.
We are dedicated to increasing awareness about global climate change and the need to develop solutions that reduce the amount of pollutants created, not just by factory farming, but across all industries.
Even if these families had the means, suing wouldn't be worth the legal fees because state legislators passed a law barring citizens from winning compensation for damages related to health, quality of life, enjoyment of property, or lost income caused by factory farms.
The law will also stop the Legislature and local communities from passing laws or ordinances after November 2016 to address any water and air pollution caused by factory farms, harm to other farmers» and residents» land not withstanding.
In India and China, many small - scale farmers (who are the bulk of farmers in India, for example) have been displaced by factory farms.
It will also prevent tax dollars from subsidizing animal waste facilities built by factory farms and require that farmers protect our water and soils in exchange for the generous crop insurance and farm subsidies that taxpayers provide.

Not exact matches

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...
Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.
Pete and Gerry's didn't adopt the industrialized, factory - style farming that was common for egg farmers, and by the late 1990s, it didn't have the scale to supply eggs to supermarkets or large chains.
By the Second World War's end, northern forestry and mining, steel mills in Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie, Sarnia's Chemical Valley, consumer goods, farm implements and plane building in and around Toronto, and auto factories in Windsor, Oakville and Oshawa made Ontario wealthy.
The number of agricultural businesses registered with the WCB — it's a little misleading to refer to these businesses simply as «farms» since many of them are more like farm - products factories — has increased a similar amount, by 107 per cent.
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
As Christ was present to the four by the Sea of Galilee, so is he present in the workplace you and I inhabit: kitchens, farms, offices, schools, factories, drilling grounds, laboratories, studios.
By working in factories and on farms she sought to understand how the oppression of work could be alleviated and the social hierarchy dismantled.
It is only by our boycotting meat that animals can cease to suffer under the conditions of contemporary factory farming.
The people who profit by exploiting large numbers of animals on factory farms «do not need our approval.
We are enlaved by: debt, fossil fuels, materialism, factory farmed and processed «food,» news propaganda, belief systems, and our medical system
Yes, it's true that the Standard American diet consists of plenty of factory farmed meat and dairy, but they are definitely not abandoning starchy plant foods like wheat and corn by any means.
COLES will stop selling company branded pork, ham and bacon from pigs kept in crammed stalls as well as company branded caged eggs from January, meeting a commitment by the company to phase out the factory farming practices a year early.
(Dec. 15, 2010)-- The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.
Animals Australia has been at the forefront of national public awareness campaigns highlighting the suffering endured by mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates in factory farms.
New laws making it illegal to take pictures or film agricultural animals came into force in the US states of Utah and Iowa, lobbied for by an industry attempting to keep secret what happens on factory farms.
Eventually, we pass a sign on the right side of the road that says «Kitabi Tea Factory,» and I bolt upright in my seat — was this the Kitabi Tea Factory, an estate and tea processing facility that has been certified to the Rainforest Alliance's agriculture standard since 2011, and whose audit report I had, by chance, just included in a new analysis of tea farm improvements?
Rather than obtaining meat from animals raised on environmentally destructive factory farms and slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, clean meat is produced by taking a small sample of animal cells and replicating them in a culture outside of the animal.
We have therefore committed to having 100 percent of our employees complete our bespoke «Journey of Food» e-Learning module by the second quarter of 2018, focused exclusively on food waste from the farm to our factory, and ultimately to the fork.
«By pledging to use some cage - free eggs, Otis Spunkmeyer has taken an important step away from one of the worst abuses of farm animals,» said Matthew Prescott, outreach director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.
HSUS undercover investigators have exposed the suffering of hens in battery cages on factory farms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale Ffarms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale FFarms and Costco supplier Hillandale FarmsFarms.
«By starting to use eggs from hens not confined in cruel battery cages and pork from pigs not crammed into tiny gestation crates, Sonic has taken an important first step forward for animal welfare,» said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.
Therefore it is crucial that Animals Australia continues to highlight to consumers in Tasmania and throughout Australia that they have the power to help these animals right now by refusing to purchase factory farmed products.
The effort also follows the May 2012 release of undercover footage taken by The HSUS at a pig factory farm that supplied animals to Tyson Foods.
The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.
One of Australia's richest women has vowed to put her fortune to good use by campaigning for an end to factory farming Down Under.
These include Waverley Station which is owned by the Crouch family and is the biggest beef cattle farmer on the island and corporates such as Nippon Meats and Kirin Holdings - owned Lion Dairy & Drinks which owns and operates dairy farms and a cheese factory on the island.
The response from major retailers has been encouraging, with Coles and Woolworths responding to public concern about the treatment of animals raised for food by committing to stock fewer factory farmed products.
To avoid factory farmed, corn - fed meat, make sure the meat you buy is certified grass fed by the American Grassfed Association.
The best way to channel that outrage is by achieving the very thing they were trying to avoid — exposing the plight of factory farmed animals.
They would rapidly modernize their antiquated domestic farming system, importing the factory farming pioneered in America by companies like Smithfield Foods.
Other retail heavyweights are starting to move on animal welfare too, with Coles announcing that it would phase out two of the cruellest factory farming practices from their home brand products by January 2013 — a year ahead of their committed phase - out date.
B. By purchasing our chickens people are directly supporting the farmers who raise them, rather than a large company that runs factory farms producing cheap food.
Clean meat is created by growing meat outside of an animal from a small cell sample, eliminating the need for factory farming and slaughter.
More than 70,000 Australians have already pledged to make a world without factory farming possible — by refusing factory - farmed, eating fewer animal products, or by going meat - free.
We asked for your help to achieve the one thing the farming lobby was trying to stop — exposing the cruelty suffered by animals in factory farms.
Caring Australians inspired by the idea of a world without factory farming have stepped up by the thousands to get the message of Make it Possible right where it should be: beaming into hearts and homes across the country — in primetime.
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