Sentences with phrase «factory farming far»

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A company representative said the Camperdown factory would have required 150 staff and that a further 80 employees would have been hired to run the intensive dairy farm in Frances.

Traditional organic farmers see hydroponic production as a new form of «factory farming» that further corporatizes organic agriculture.

Further, as per the scope of this report, the science and technology areas discussed focus on unlocking value - adding activities or markets, rather than improving productivity on - farm / factory or over the value chain.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

As far as factory farming goes, do you and / or your kids know what happens to spent hens and male chicks?

Not only would I like the organic, free - range eggs (which are far healthier than factory - farmed eggs), I would like to expose my children to the experience of caring for animals and to get better acquainted with their food.

Such a ban remains far more contentious in North America, where the profitability of factory - farm operations depends on getting animals to market in the shortest possible time.

The truth is that the human digestive system has developed over almost 100,000 years to process a «hunter gatherer» type of diet most efficiently — this means fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, eggs, and meat (from healthy animals, a far cry from today's factory farmed animals).

, coconut oil,; along with some cage - free humane organic eggs, sustainable wild - caught fish, free - range organic game meat (hunting is far LESS cruel & dirty than factory - farms!)

Milk from factory raised farm animals is indeed unhealthy and risky to drink raw, however milk from grass - fed, pasture raised animals has far more health benefits than its pasteurized counterpart.

The brilliance is that it allows for multiple animal and plant species to be raised on the same surface area: while a well - run polyculture farm usually produces far fewer pigs than say, a pig factory farm, it has the potential to produce far more biomass on the same surface area.

Given the current practice of commercial factory farming in the American meat / dairy industry, I don't think that statement is far from the truth.

The animals have to be healthy to impart the maximum health benefit to you, and factory - farmed animals are the furthest thing from healthy.

Events so far this year: To educate about factory farming and laws regarding farmed animals, we watched the «Got the Facts on Milk?»

Peter Hessler's «Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory» is a brilliant evocation of modern China and its conundrum, as Hessler drives far into the now - emptied empire.

The documentary exposes the underbelly of the food biz, an image and reality far from the agrarian fantasy of farms, revealing how the factories are producing our food and what's being systematically hidden.

Consider this reality: ONE (1) 450 MW gas - fired Combined Cycle Generating Unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in NYS)-- operating at 60 % Capacity Factor, would provide more power than all of NYS's 16 installed wind factories combined, at 1/4 of the capital costs — and would have significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more jobs than all those wind farms — without all the added costs (economic, environmental, and civil), and of all the transmission lines that must be added across the state to NYC.