Sentences with phrase «factory farming increases»

And the environmental and health damage is not distributed equally — as concentration of factory farming increases, so do the effects felt by the particular regions located near these farms.

A handful of the 166 dead zones have since bounced back through improved management of sewage and agricultural runoff, but as fertilizer use and factory farming increase, we are creating dead zones faster than nature can recover.

Not exact matches

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.

Factory farming and the combine harvester increased labour productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural workers.

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.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

Increase lobbying power to end legal exemptions that permit cruelty to animals in factory farms.

In response to increasing public exposure of factory farming, Rivalea piggery, Australia's largest piggery, announces it will end all use of sow stalls by 2017 with already 2 / 3rds of their sows now kept in group housing.

With increased community awareness about the cruelty of factory farming, the lives led by these animals are becoming an increasingly important consideration in purchasing decisions.

But imagine the marketing potential: Organic grass - fed human breast - milk cheese could be the ultimate Whole Foods product, as long as the women aren't housed on factory farms or given artificial hormones to increase milk production and everything is certified.

Other researchers are trying to increase the efficiency of farms and factories, the biggest consumers.

The problem then becomes one of most people increasing factory farmed or CAFO meat which is generally all they have access to.

We think they have relatively weak secondary effects, such as building the animal advocacy movement and increasing the likelihood of a major social shift away from factory farming.

We think online ads have relatively weak secondary effects, such as building the animal advocacy movement and increasing the likelihood of a major social shift away from factory farming.

When you consider the amount of growth hormones & drugs we are using and consuming through factory farmed meat, it is no wonder diseases such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer are increasing.

The increasing concentration and industrialization of the U.S. agricultural sector has resulted in factory farms where animals are raised by the thousands, often in crowded conditions.

Factory farms pollute the environment and our drinking water, wreck rural communities, and harm the welfare of animals — while increasing corporate control over our food.

For example, Best (2006) speculated that increased organic sediments sent down rivers due to deforestation, factory farming, etc., once buried in the seabed, will be converted to methane by bacteria, perhaps seriously adding to greenhouse gas emissions.

Chalk up yet another reason to oppose factory farming: BBC News reports that scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found evidence that overuse of antibiotics on farm animals is leading to an increase in antibiotic - resistant human urinary tract infections.

More Factory Farms Behind 20 % Increase In Meat Consumption Over Past Decade Quarter of US Meat Samples Carry Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria, Factory Farms to Blame: Study

Chalk up yet another reason to oppose factory farming: BBC News reports that scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found evidence that overuse of antibiotics on farm animals is leading to an increase in

A recent Worldwatch report copiously lists the problems with factory farming and increasing levels of meat consumption.

As factory farming has grown over the years, competition has increased and the pressure on farmers to keep the price of food low has remained steady.