Sentences with phrase «over factory farms»

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

Not exact matches

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.

Not only is it cruel and inhumane to animals, intensive farming or factory farming is responsible for the over use of antibiotics which is extremely harmful to human health too.

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.

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

So while moms can be (and should be) concerned about the contaminants in their breast milk... it is certainly easier to change something you have more control over (your own diet and personal products) than what factory farm lots are doing to their cows.

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).

Reacting against this and other «science over nature» trends, the pioneers of the environmental movement in the late 1960s were quick to pick up on the negative aspects of factory farming, with books such as «Silent Spring» and «Animal Machines» generating considerable interest.

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).

Anyone can watch FORKS OVER KNIVES and FARM TO FRIDGE online to educate yourselves about how the food supply is killing people in epidemic proportions, and also the horrific cruelty to animals at ALL farms, not just factory farms.

Let's break it down: DIET: eating pro-inflammatory foods like sugar; factory farmed / grain fed meat unnaturally high in the omega 6 fatty acids; refined vegetable oils like canola, corn or soy (read more here); conventional dairy products; processed foods; alcohol, smoking, over the counter and recreational drugs; a gluten rich diet of sandwiches, pasta, crackers, baked goods and other refined grain - based foods.

A British study found much higher rates of Salmonella in factory eggs than in both «organic» and «free - range» eggs: Salmonella Levels Over 5x Higher in Factory Farm Eggs than Ofactory eggs than in both «organic» and «free - range» eggs: Salmonella Levels Over 5x Higher in Factory Farm Eggs than OFactory Farm Eggs than Organic.

Over a decade, Marvel and its expansive factory farm of talent have wheedled a formerly outsider genre into the machine - made standard of entertainment.

A documentary about factory farming and the notion of «speciesism,» the assumption of human superiority over animals.

One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm.

We kicked off the semester at our school's Fall Block Party where we set up an activity booth, handed out Animal Legal Defense Fund booklets and Compassion Over Killing factory farming materials, and teamed up with a local restaurant to sell vegan soups to students.

The chapter hosted Lewis Bollard, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) policy advisor, who spoke on Ag - Gag laws, and Liz Hallinan, Compassion Over Killing director of policy, who talked about animal and human rights abuses in factory farming.

A globally - recognized authority on animal advocacy, factory farming, vegetarian diets, and applied ethics, Matt has presented at and written for many forums over the past two decades.

Factory farming has been developed over the course of the last half - century to maximize production and profit by crowding the greatest number of animals together into the smallest possible space.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

Developed by the Italian Farming Factory in collaboration with Eataly, the Italian food destination co-owned by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, the park will showcase every aspect of Italian food, from production to consumption, over twenty acres of land.

«Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms (see the E. coli spinach outbreaks), the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food over long distances (see global warming) and the beauty of greenmarkets (see the four - times - weekly locavore cornucopia in Union Square), some young urbanites are starting to put their muscles where their pro-environment, antiglobalization mouths are.

I do love local food, and don't get into a knot over whether it's more carbon - intensive than something shipped from a factory - style farm, mainly because I value the broader set of environmental qualities that are sustained when a landscape, whether my yard or my valley, is productive and interactive.

Lopata was awarded the Prize for creating an ecotourism program that promotes the environmental, economic and health advantages of small family farms over large - scale factory agriculture.

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.

When I wrote about Cinnaholic's gourmet vegan cinnamon rolls the other day, I ended up reading back over Matthew's piece on why dietary fundamentalism gets in the way of fighting factory farming.

Documentarians, reporters, and tastemakers to the middle - to - upper - class have done a pretty good job of shaming McDonald's over the years, for everything from its sheer unhealthiness to its support for factory farms to its brazen kid - targeting advertising.

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

While the USDA could not determine the cause of the outbreaks, they did trace one outbreak back to an almond «factory farm» growing the crop on over 9,000 acres.

Over the past few decades, the rise of factory farming has institutionalized animal cruelty, caused massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and posed a constant threat to human and animal health.

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.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

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.

Jerry's idea is great if you want to factory farm and measure quantity over quality in a short period of time, but it would take years to measure the true success of a project like this.