factoryfarming Archives

10. aprilie 2014

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Soy – a problematic animal feed

With the increasing rise on the global scale of the industrial animal farming system, an increasing number of food animals are given feed based on high protein soybean meal formulated to speed their growth. In this system, the animal feed for pigs contain several ingredients – …

20. februarie 2014

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China’s need for feed

Discover this: IATP’s Global Meat Complex: The China Series looks in depth at China’s feed, pork, poultry and dairy sectors, the past and future trajectory of the industry, and global impacts of China’s efforts to balance grain self-sufficiency and the desire to provide cheap meat. China’s …

25. ianuarie 2014

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30,000 show how fed up they are with industrial food

30,000 people from many backgrounds, ages and organisations met together in the Berlin winter sunshine to say, loudly and clearly, We Are Fed Up! The industrialised food system was the target of this colourful, carnival-style demo, which, while exhuberent, also aimed anger at what is happening …

11. ianuarie 2014

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Germans speaking out against industrial meat and agriculture

Shefali Sharma from the US-based The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy joins the count-down to the “We are fed up!” – demo rally. In the Think Forward blog she shares her impressions… […] The visit shocked my senses; The extreme smell of ammonia and methane …

27. noiembrie 2013

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Ask the Factory Farm Question: Join The Pig Ask!

Guest post for 2000m² by Max Wakefield, Farms Not Factories If you’ve ever lived near or downwind of a pig factory farm, you’ll want to ask the question. If you want to go on being able to access live-saving medicines, you will …

3. septembrie 2013

by Ben

7000 citizens beleaguer Europe’s largest chicken slaughterhouse

7000 people turned up outside of Europe’s biggest chicken slaughterhouse on Saturday, August 31st to demonstrate against the the kind of industrial farming that is destroying fair, green and local food and farming. Organized by the German campaign alliance “Meine Landwirtschaft” (my agriculture) the event was a huge success. …

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