Sentences with phrase «factory farming issues»

The VCL SALDF is helping to spread the word about the initiative via letters to editors as well as going into the community and passing out campaign materials and raising awareness about the factory farming issues addressed by Prop 2.

There are other critical factory farming issues that we are encouraging retailers to also address - you can find out about those here.

Factory farm issues?

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«In the last five years, especially, this has gone from being a fringe issue... to where it is now, where through investigations and media coverage and documentaries and corporate commitments to change, it's increasingly clear to the American public that what's happening on factory farms is unacceptable,» Freund says.

The salmonella issues are nearly always from factory farming methods.

environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

Our work on factory farming has been embraced world - wide and provided resources to international animal welfare organisations to tackle these same issues in their own country.

Creating them in a factory eliminates most of the quality control issues that come with traditional pearl farming.

Milk has issues beyond sugar and calories (factory farms, environmental damage, necessary destruction of male calves) that sour the product.

This has been largely a response to disturbing reports about the cruel treatment of animals in «factory farming» - one of the most controversial and emotive issues - where the maximum number of animals are crammed into the minimum amount of space, unable to move freely, denied any kind of normal life and reduced to nothing more than products on a factory production line.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

While I do not agree with factory farms, I have many malabsorption issues which make a vegan diet an unhealthy choice for me (as I do not absorb many of the nutrients in these foods).

Factory farms certainly contribute to making animals even less healthy, but once you familiarize yourself with the issues, you can see that there are basic problems with meat, diary and eggs regardless of how they are raised.

Expose students to issues related to commercial, factory farming methods vs. organic, animal and environmentally friendly, sustainable farming methods and practices.

Knowing that we are their voice, I feel that it is so important to work on animal issues in a variety of industries (factory farms, entertainment, and of course, «animal control»).

The petitions below cover a range of animal rights issues, from protesting unethical animal testing to protecting wildlife from exploitation; from preventing animal cruelty at factory farms to rescuing pets from abuse.

The GW SALDF has expanded upon its standard events and outreach by adding Animal Law Week in January 2013, which included guest speakers on the issues of factory farming and breed discrimination.

Paul Solotaroff — Rolling Stone contributing editor who wrote a wide - ranging, high - profile exposé about the netherworld of puppy mills in the then - new issue of the magazine — discusses how he came to write the piece, sort of goaded into it by Humane Society of The United States CEO Wayne Pacelle, after Solotaroff completed another Rolling Stone investigative opus about factory farming.

FoA was the first animal advocacy group to expose factory farming as a result of its investigative writing, and in 1975 issued a 24 - page pamphlet recommending complete relief from participation in the business of confining, breeding, rearing and slaughter of food products.

«States of Flux,» at Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, through August 12, aperture.org * RECOMMENDED * «Touched,» at Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th Street, through August 13, lehmannmaupin.com?Artists from the Minimalists to Jeff Koons have gotten around the issue of «touch» by farming out the creation of their work to assistants and factories, while the conceptually minded — from Ian Wilson to Tino Sehgal — have simply eschewed the creation of objects.

But this community agrees on 98 percent of issues — mainly that factory farming sucks and it's not good for our health or animals or the planet.»

Discuss how food choices have an impact on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, factory and farm worker treatment, and our global economy.

Each session addresses the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

Each session includes readings, short assignments and accompanying discussion questions that address the impact of individual food choices on a range of issues, including ecosystem health, the treatment of factory and farm workers, and the global economy.

With the help of NWEI's course book, students were able to address living conditions of workers on tomato farms, genetically modified organisms, food sovereignty issues, food waste, pesticides, overfishing, factory farms, fair trade certification as well as explore personal eating habits and choices.

Food & Water Watch has released an interactive map that illustrates the geographic shift in where factory farms have been concentrated and in how food is raised in the U.S., and an accompanying website with a newsfeed on the issue and that ranks the top concentrations of factory farmed livestock nationwide, by state and by county.

I took issue before with an argument from a «conscious carnivore» that going vegetarian would not stop factory farming.

One of the things that's happening now in our field is that we're finding common ground with environmentalists over the issue of factory farming.