Sentences with phrase «industrial farming»

But the biggest factor is the expansion of industrial farming.

The erosion and deterioration of soils on industrial farms also releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

I was aware of the horrible cruelty in industrial farming and saw my fair share of gruesome videos.

But are large industrial farms really the best, let alone the only, way forward?

It is as productive per acre as industrial farming.

Huge amounts of water are required to keep and increase the mineral oil and gas production and huge deserts are filled with industrial farming.

New research is documenting that organic farms can emit as little as half the carbon dioxide generated by industrial farms.

While these trends are promising, the largest, most industrial farms are getting bigger.

Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental impacts of large - scale industrial farming on the region.

If you look into it, you'll find that the bulk of the money in farm subsidies is going to big industrial farms.

Today, those researchers are looking at sustainability — it's called «precision agriculture» in the trade — but their focus remains laser - focused on industrial farms.

HSI promotes transition away from industrial farm animal production to more sustainable — and welfare - friendly — forms of agriculture, as well as a reduction in the number of animals raised for food.

According to Defenders of Wildlife, the main culprits in the decline of the animals» numbers are: urban sprawl; the conversion of once diversified agricultural lands into intensified industrial farming uses; and the loss of farmland to commercial development.

The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production came to the same conclusion.

While building large industrial farming complexes may send the cash registers cranking into overdrive, you also run the increased risk of floods, animal - waste pollution, and life - threatening E. coli.

-- State legislatures repeatedly rejecting «Ag - Gag» or «Right to Farm» bills that prohibit investigations into industrial farms, with the latest example in Oklahoma.

We are living in a very polluted and dangerous food world, partly because of the unregulated excesses of U.S. industrial farming.

The second was a scenario modeled for a future of increased expansion of industrial farms growing crops like oil palm, a product that is blamed for significant forest losses in other nations like Indonesia.

If the chicken coops of subsistence farmers are hot spots of resistance gene transfer, he speculated that bacteria present in industrial farming operations — where chickens regularly receive antibiotics — would see even more pressure to share resistance genes.

Which salad is more earth - friendly, the one made with organic mixed greens trucked from thousands of miles away, or the one with lettuce raised on nearby industrial farms?

I like the idea that no chicken or turkey suffers from industrial farming methods just so I can indulge the ultimate luxury of feeding a domesticated wolf.

Pederson's works with real farmers on self - sustaining family farms rather than industrial farms because it adds a more personal touch, which ties into the family feeling of the overall company.

The modern industrial farm has resulted.

A thousand edible nasturtiums may have bloomed in a thousand farmer's markets, but Monsanto, Cargill and ADM have blighted a million villages with their crushing industrial farming.

Here in Europe we are fighting against Roundup and other chemicals product used on heavy industrial farming.

Heritage - breed pigs come from genetic stock that predates industrial farming.

«We are very concerned by the announcement today that New York State will weaken state environmental protections put in place to protect public health, safety and the environment by exempting medium - size industrial farms from its CAFO permit program,» said a coalition of environmental groups in a prepared statement.

It lies in understanding the real engines of infection: the giant industrial farms and crowded hospitals with insufficient hygiene.

Virologist Brown warns that we have to find new ways to raise animals that don't pack them so closely together in huge industrial farms.

This is a scanning electron micrograph of burned industrial farming waste.

«We need to expand the number of pathogens that we test for in our food supply, and we need international leadership to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics on industrial farms around the world,» Price says.

The machines «grow» people in vast industrial farms and siphon off the small current of electricity generated by the bodies.

Industrial farming changed impending famine when world population was four billion people to an excess of food for many as population has topped six billion and expanding.

Murdoc's Take: The idea is that genetically we evolved to thrive on certain foods that were the primary source of the human diet prior to mass industrial farming and other changes to our food supply.

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith is against industrial farming.

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Free range chicken tastes noticeably better than industrial farmed chicken.

Rodale has been doing side - by - side testing of organic and GMO crops since the early 80s, and during times of drought they are finding that organics outperformed industrial farming techniques by 31 percent (you can check out the Rodale report (pdf) here).

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Cutting meat out of one's diet is seen as the logical reaction to these injustices; and yet, increasing numbers of articles, photographs, and video footage from industrial farms suggest that dairy, allowed in vegetarian diets, raises far more ethical red flags than even meat.

Unlike industrial farms, small - scale organic G and sustainable farms rely on people power, not heavy machinery, and depend on nature, not manmade chemicals for soil fertility and pest management.

Industrial farms G use a number of methods to increase milk production in dairy cows, including selective breeding, feeding grain - based diets (instead of grass), and exposing cows to longer periods of artificial light.

By destroying the natural soil fertility and disturbing the soil through tillage, industrial farming also adds to the deterioration of soil and its carbon emissions.

Industrial farms Gare fossil - fuel addicted places, from their reliance on fossil fuels for powering machinery to petroleum - based chemicals used to create artificial soil fertility, protect against pests, and stave off weeds.