Sentences with phrase «concentrated animal feeding operations»

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).

Administering antibiotics allows farmers to raise animals in «concentrated animal feeding operations» (CAFOs), which is synonymous with cramped, filthy, and unhealthy conditions.

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

There are myriad reasons why concentrated animal feeding operations (the technical cleaned up newspeak term for factory farms) are bad for the animals, the environment and human health.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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):

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.

CAALS brought together legal practitioners across the country, including several ALDF attorneys, to present on animal law topics such as concentrated animal feeding operations, municipal dog breed bans, and the intersections between consumer protection law and animal law.

Oklahoma has already seen polluted water from concentrated animal feeding operations.

Also, we have the claim that industrial agriculture — in particular, concentrated animal feeding operations — keep food prices down.

Today, most milk is produced in large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where the animals don't receive sunlight, are fed genetically modified grains and soy products and stand in each other's excrement.

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

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.

You know, they use corn to fatten up CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) cows before slaughter.

They show pastured cows in the movie after this statement, not livestock in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) which is more likely to be what they are referring to.

Processed meats from concentrated animal feeding operations are unhealthy, not to mention unethical and unsustainable.

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.

They are never put in CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations).

«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.

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.

From the road, the sprawling site looks like a typical concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, with nine elongated metal barns housing nearly 9,000 hogs and an open lagoon that stores liquefied manure.

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.

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.

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

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

Characterizing reduced sulfur compounds emissions from a swine concentrated animal feeding operation

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

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).

So what does Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) really mean?

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.

Not exact matches

Concentrated animal - feeding operations in the South also produce ammonia.