Posts tagged: #factory farms

In the News: Happy Earth Day Week! NYS SNAP Recipients Can Now Order On-Line! Grappling with Food Insecurity on College Campuses; Every Day Needs to be Earth Day, Opt Out Of Industrial Meat!

This Earth Day Week, Push Back on the Slashing of Our Environmental Programs! This Earth Day Week, POTUS continues to cut our clean energy programs, eliminating crucial climate change research, and slashing the EPA’s budget by a whopping 31%. What … Read More

In the News: Milk Industry is Turning to Small Batch Operations; Strawberries Now Top Dirty Dozen List; Ag Department Proposing Stricter Animal Welfare Standards for Organic Chicken and Meat

Milk Industry is Turning to Small Batch Operations More and more consumers are learning about the negative impacts of factory farming, the awful treatment of the animals, and the lower quality product that results. Many farmers are responding to this … Read More

In The News: This Meat Company Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil; Why Is The US Government Conspiring Against Vegan Mayo?; Support for Breast-Feeding, in a Multitude of Ways

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This Meat Company Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil Tyson Foods, one of the largest producers of meat in the world, is responsible for dumping more toxic pollution by volume into U.S. waters than companies like Exxon … Read More

In The News: Farmer Shows The Truth About Raising Chickens In America; New Vaccine Aims to Reduce Methane Gas Emissions in Cows; Thousands of Birds Found Dead on Alaska Shoreline

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Farmer Shows The Truth About Raising Chickens In America Watch this short video on how chickens in factory farms are raised. This is only a tiny look into the world of CAFO’s, it is a dire situation and the world … Read More

iEat Green Interviews Chris Hunt from GRACE Communications Foundation

Hi All, Yesterday, I had a great interview with Chris Hunt, the GRACE Communications Foundation’s Special Advisor on Food and Agriculture. We discussed many of the problems with our industrial agricultural system, from factory farms to food waste, and talked … Read More

iEat Green Interviews Terry Spence, Kendra Kimbirauskas, and Ashlen Busick from the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project

Hi Everyone, Yesterday I had a great interview with the folks over at the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project (SRAP), which is a non profit organization that empowers rural communities and family farmers to fight back against the infiltration of industrial … Read More

Take Action: Protect the Whistleblowers Who Expose Abuse in Factory Farms; Stop the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act; Prohibit the Fishing of the Blue Shark

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Protect the Whistleblowers Who Expose Abuse in Factory Farms Slowly but surely, state legislatures have been passing laws making it illegal for people to expose the truth about the cruel and unnecessary treatment of animals in factory farms. This means … Read More

In The News: Conventional Cattle Being Milked on Organic Farms; Mandatory Vaccine Laws Enacted & Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Is Failing

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Conventional Cattle Being Milked on Organic Farms Large scale organic dairy farms have been bringing in conventional cows to replace their burnt out organic cows that are sent to the hamburger plant after they are no longer profitable. Many small … Read More