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.
Factory farms produce an estimated 500 million tons of manure each year - more than three times the sewage produced by the entire U.S. human population.
Not exact matches
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.
They note that while some ecologists are focusing attention on the maintenance of wilderness, we have in fact turned our
farms into
factories, where meat is
produced with no regard whatever for the suffering of the animals involved.
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.
Cows involved in milking, are forced to stand 24/7 in their stalls, especially if the
farm is associated with a
factory that
produces milk or milk products.
Its suppliers hold full organic certification with two international certifiers throughout each stage of production, from the organic cotton
farm to the
factories where the garments are
produced.
Unless there is an economic incentive for more people to begin this type of
farming, we are left with cheap
factory produced chickens because nobody wants to take the time to raise them on pasture.
For the European market, Kelsen Group
produces The Pepperidge
Farm line in the Danish Ribe
factory.
If May is able to pursue her current policy to its end, almost everything about what you eat will change, from the
farm it comes from, to the
factories it's
produced in, to the price at the supermarket till.
And you know, what these folks say again, is «If the people that are buying meat out there in the world had any idea of the way in which meat is
produced; if they had a look at, you know, inside a
factory farm where animals are raised in their own feces and, you know, slaughtered and then ground up and so on.
What kind of
factory farming methods would be, you know, would be involved in order to
produce those kinds of quantities of meat?
Instead, most people eat
factory -
farmed fish, meaning fish that is raised by an industry whose sole mission it is to
produce more fish quicker, faster, larger and cheaper.
It's true that fresh organic
produce is more expensive than the conventionally grown variety and that pasture - raised animal products are more expensive than
factory -
farmed animal products.
Factory farming is a major polluter of drinking water and
produces greenhouse gases.
These are usually
produced in vast
factory «
farms» with upwards of 500,000 birds in one facility.
And even when the sicknesses and / or death from E. Coli occur from vegetables, this is usually caused by runoff from a
factory corn - fed beef
farm that contaminated
produce at a downstream
farm.
Since organic dairy farmers are prohibited from administering growth hormones used by
factory dairy
farms, they have less output — or you know, the normal amount of milk a normal cow should be
producing.
Meat quality:
Factory farming damages the environment and
produces animals that are not optimally healthy, which means they also make us less healthy.
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.
Just look at the recalls of fresh
produce — it isn't intrinsic trouble with the plants, it's runoff from animal
factory farms or cross-contamination from poor hygiene practices of the workers processing the plants.
re: «what makes it unhealthy is how it is
produced now on
factory farms.»
And I think that animal protein including milk is healthy itself, people were consuming it for centuries and genetically we were made to consume this, the only what makes it anhealthy is how it is
produced now on
factory farms.
That means saying goodbye to food that comes from
factory farms (if you eat animal products), conventional
produce that is laced with pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and other harmful chemicals like Glyphosate, and choosing food that is grown and raised in a healthy, happy, sustainable way.
Many chicken «
farms» aren't
farms in the traditional sense — but
factories for
producing chickens and eggs simply as a commodity.
This complaint states that 14
factory farms —
producing meat and dairy products — are conducting business with illegal organic certification.
They travel in JR's photo truck to French villages,
factories, docks,
farms and anywhere else their spirits take them, meeting locals, learning their stories and
producing epic - size portraits of them.
More than 99 percent of animal products are
produced under
factory farm conditions (www.farmforward.com /
farming - forward / food - choices).
While Infusino doubts he's
producing food at a lower cost than the
factory -
farm produce at the grocery store, his hobby doesn't cost much and helps him relax.
The average chicken in the wild will yield 100 eggs annually, a
factory farm has not only been selectively bred to
produce up to 250 eggs a year but is routinely shocked into «force molting» a process where the chickens are starved for weeks on end to onset another laying cycle.
Puppy mills run in a similar
factory - manner as a
farm, but the «commodities»
produced are puppies.
The last seven years have
produced several high - impact, feature - length documentaries about the plight of animals, such as The Cove, Earthlings, Born to be Wild, Dealing Dogs, and Death on a
Factory Farm.
Factory farm animals routinely have their throats cut, are boiled and dismembered alive — and while fully conscious — by workers under extreme pressure to
produce a high output.
Puppy mills are essentially «
factory farms» that mass -
produce puppies, usually sold at wholesale prices, to retail pet stores.
It is centrally located close to the small
farms and
factories in the Emilia Romagna region that
produce Prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale.
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.
Report: More
Factory Farming But Oversight Lags: «Some huge livestock
farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston.
I don't like
factory farms, and I don't like cruelty to animals, but how do the PETA people think we're going to be able to
produce edible proteins in labs at a commercial scale?
Ethanol plants
produce byproducts that can be used as feed for animals, in turn,
factory farms can sell animal manure as fuel for ethanol plants.
We tend to agree; while Whole Foods has garnered some negative press from greenies for some of its business moves, they're still a positive force in the larger world of mega-marts,
factory -
farmed yuckism and foods
produced from the lowest bidder.
They plan to expel farmers and graziers from most land areas, with food
produced in concentrated feedlots,
factory farms, communal gardens and hydroponics.
But livestock manure also
produces methane as it decomposes in closed - air containers known as lagoons, which
factory farming operations often use to store the massive amounts of manure
produced by their
farms.
I've been shocked at what's going on with not just
produce production but these meat
factory farms.
Just as with land - based
factory farming, when industrial producers have to bear the costs of all the negative externalities associated with industrial fishing, and those costs get passed along to consumers, sustainability will became a much more attractive and practical philosophy by which seafood is
produced and consumed.