Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Conditions inside animal factory farms
To understand the conditions present in these factory farms, you must first examine what the animals in these factory farms are eating. The factory farmer has redefined what constitutes animal feed in a 'bottom line' effort to save money. They seem to care little about the health or the happiness of the animal, and instead treat it like a product. The low quality standards placed on animal feed by these "farmers" prove that little consideration is being taken towards the animal or the consumer. |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Corporate factory farms better able to finance increasingly expensive farm machinery and agrochemicals began to dominate American agriculture by the end of the 1960s.
Although different in detail from Rome and the South, the economics of large corporate farms similarly discounted concern about soil erosion.
Corporations are, by nature, remporary land owners. ... A tenant on corporate land has no assurance whatsoevet of staying on the farm more than a year. ... | | He worried that adopting fertilizers as standatd practice on factory farms would emphasize maximizing profits at the expense of soil health. "The restoration and maintenance of soil fertility has become a universal problem. . . . The slow poisoning of the life of the soil by artificial manures is one of the greatest calamities which has befallen agriculture and mankind."11 The Second World War derailed adoption of Howard's ideas. After the war the companies that supplied the world's armies rurned to pumping out fertilizer, this time cheap enough to eclipse soil husbandry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Perhaps in as few as two years, you may witness a devastation of the macadamia nut industry, to be replaced by factory farms, massive use of chemical pesticides, labor violations for the workers, and everything else that goes with corporate control of the food supply.
So if you wish to support this industry, I encourage you to buy directly from these farmers. I've already recommended South Kona Macs (www.SouthKonaMacs.com), and I give their operation five stars for honesty, ethics and outstanding mac nuts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  While I can marginally tolerate the consumption of organic, free range meat products from animals that are ethically raised and honorably slaughtered, I am adamantly opposed to modern factory farms (cattle feedlots, chicken lots, etc.) as well as the use of toxic, cancer-causing additives in processed meat products. As I've covered in previous articles here on NewsTarget, processed meats are linked to an increase in various cancers, including pancreatic cancers, brain tumors and colon cancers. Feeding hot dogs to children, in my opinion, is a form of child cruelty. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Animals such as cows, calves, pigs and chickens are made to live truly horrible lives, however short, while being housed in factory farms."
The routine torture of dairy cows
Milking cows are treated like machines; confined from all other animals including their calves, they are made to stand on concrete floors in their own waste. In order to manipulate genetics and produce more milk, farmers pump the cows full of chemicals, hormones and antibiotics, many of which may make their way into the milk we drink and the cheese we eat. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  And now that you've been to the feedlots, the food-processing plants, the organic factory farms, and the local farms and ranches, what do you eat?"
Fair questions, though it does seem to me a symptom of our present confusion about food that people would feel the need to consult a journalist, or for that matter a nutritionist or doctor or government food pyramid, on so basic a question about the conduct of our everyday lives as humans. I mean, what other animal needs professional help in deciding what it should eat? |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts | | The first five-year plan, produced in 1929, included a blunt call to convert rhe steppe to factory farms. "Our steppe will truly become ours only when we come with columns of rractors and ploughs to break the thousand-year-old virgin soil."13 Contrary to plan, dust storms blossomed after plows broke up the grassland.
The Soviet's virgin land program of the 1950s and 1960s brought a hundred million acres of marginal farmland into production. | | Even forgoing pesticides, California's newly industrialized organic factory farms are not necessarily conserving soil. When demand for organic produce began to skyrocket in the 1990s, industrial farms began planting monocultural stands of lettuce that retained the flaws of conventional agriculture—just without the pesticides.
Agroecology doesn't necessarily mean small farms instead of large farms. Haiti's tiny peasant farms destroyed soil on steep slopes just as effectively as the immense slave-worked plantations of the American South. And the problem isn't just mechanization. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Department of Agriculture - takes about $90 billion of our tax money every year, and they give subsidies to all of these factory farms to go organic, but they give no subsidies to help family-scale dairies make the transition to organic. We literally do not have enough family farmers with the wherewithal to achieve organic certification and make the product. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  The meat (and milk) that comes from cows that primarily spend their lives being fattened up on grain at CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations or "factory farms") is simply not the same meat or milk that comes from their pasture-fed, grass-grazing brethren. The fat content is different, the nutrients are different, and except for the protein, it's just not the same food. | | There are no "factory farms" for cattle in India—all cows are "grass fed." Therefore, all the health benefits of grass-fed butter discussed under "Butter" (above, page 175), apply completely to ghee. As Amanda Morningstar explains about the cow in her excellent book Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners, "her milk and her butter, clarified as ghee, are like mother's milk in Ayurveda, absolutely essential for health and well-being. They must be pure to do this. Many Westerners are concerned that the use of ghee will increase their cholesterol or add unnecessary amounts of fat to their diet. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This less healthy form of fat is also likely to contain hormones, antibiotics, and pesticide residues from animals raised on factory farms. You can reduce your exposure to these chemicals—some of which are known causes of cancer—by shopping for organic meats from grass-fed cattle. (Organic, grass-fed meat is also less likely to carry mad cow disease.) Eat the leanest cuts possible. Skinless chicken and turkey are better sources of protein as they contain little saturated fat.
Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Meat eaten in the native cultures where acne is virtually absent comes from wild game and pasture-fed (grass-fed) animals, not from factory farms where cows are routinely given large doses of hormones.
One study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology investigated the relationship between diet and teenage acne and found a significant positive association between acne and milk (skim and whole). The researchers hypothesized that the association may be because of the "presence of hormones and bioactive molecules in milk. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts |  People in animal reform attribute the cause for downed livestock to the inhumane treatment of animals raised on factory farms and the stressful procedures when transporting the animals for slaughter.) Marc Lappe, PhD, works with Ethics and Toxics, a nonprofit environmental group based in California. He asserts that an estimated three hundred thousand farm animals who die each year are classified as "downers."
When University of Wisconsin veterinary scientist Richard Marsh inoculated U.S. cattle with the infected mink brains, the cattle died. When Dr. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Although the Paul, Idaho, farm was small in comparison with other super factory dairy farms, it was still large, and its animal husbandry practices appeared to blur the line between factory farms and ideally humane organic farms—at least according to its critics.
The Cornucopia Institute, which represented small organic farm interests, filed a formal complaint in 2005 with the USDA's Office of Compliance asking them to initiate an investigation into alleged violations of the federal organic law by the Horizon dairy in Idaho. Grass is the end all and be all of cows. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts | | This less healthy form of fat is also likely to contain hormones, antibiotics, and pesticide residues from animals raised on factory farms. You can reduce your exposure to these chemicals—some of which are known causes of cancer—by shopping for organic meats from grass-fed cattle. (Organic, grass-fed meat is also less likely to carry mad cow disease.) Eat the leanest cuts possible. Skinless chicken and turkey are better sources of protein as they contain little saturated fat.
Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Where chicken (and other poultry) is concerned, you'll not only want to look for the meat (and eggs) of grass-fed versus grain-fed animals, you'll also want to be certain that the animals are "free range," meaning that they roam freely in the outside environment, rather than being cooped up in factory farms where they are overcrowded and often subject to inhumane conditions. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Sustainable Ranching
Our factory farms dump a shocking amount of animal waste into our waterways and soil every year. Farm machinery churns a significant portion of greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere—and on top of that, cow flatulence adds abnormal quantities of methane, compounding the greenhouse problem before the equipment even enters the picture. But if we don't want to give up burgers—and we don't have to!—how can we remove ourselves from this cycle of environmental degradation? By buying sustainable meats.
What happens on a sustainably run ranch? |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Although in 1997 the FDA established some controls, there are significant loopholes such as farmers being allowed to feed cow's blood to cattle, even though research shows the blood can transmit the prions of Mad Cow Disease, and factory farms are still allowed to feed pigs and poultry the remains of slaughtered cattle and the remains of these slaughtered, cattle-fed animals can be fed back to cattle. The Center for Disease Control refuses to make CJD a reportable disease. At least one U.S. company that wants to test all its cows has not been allowed to by the U.S. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Over supply by factory farms is a problem, not an answer.
• rBGH is not needed to improve the health of dairy cows. The manufacturer's own label warns that the growth hormone can trigger a wide range of harmful effects. rBGH is not needed to help family farmers. Their costs already are too high, without another artificial chemical to buy. And the artificial hormone makes cows sick, leading to higher costs for veterinary care and antibiotics.
• Furthermore, rBGH is very different than natural milk, and poses cancer and other risks to consumers. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  In the book, Mad Cowboy, former cattle rancher, Howard Lyman details that mad cow disease stems from the feeding concoctions of dead cows and other animals in the factory farms to the living cows. When those living cows are slaughtered and eaten, they pass the mad cow disease on to humans.
When one eats the flesh of tortured animals, or the milk of dairy cows, or eggs from factory chickens, one also ingests the fear, the pain, the exhaustion and the sorrow of those beings. These energies manifest within the consumer in the form of negative attitudes, depression and illness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Department of Agriculture -- takes about $90 billion of our tax money every year and they give subsidies to all of these factory farms to go organic, but they give no subsidies to help family-scale dairies make the transition to organic. We literally do not have enough family farmers with the wherewithal to achieve organic certification and make the product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Well, I originally went into the whole thing with more of a concern for the animals and how they're treated, and the factory farms in particular. I took heart in the lifestyle and health gains that could be had by doing a vegetarian diet – even something that included fish – just by cutting out red meat, pork and chicken; how people could dramatically increase their lifespan, lower cholesterol level, obesity, etc. Then, that just became kind of my modus operandi. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  By that choice, their customers reject the cruelty and pollution of feedlots and factory farms, and they receive in return the security of knowing that the animals were raised without a dier full of hormones, antibiotics, and questionable feed.
When it's time to say goodbye, Matt apologizes that his son Ian couldn't join us. Since his childhood illness, Ian has been severely handicapped and confined to a wheelchair; today's slight breeze would have bothered him too much. As we're leaving, Matt adds, "Ian is the best thing that ever happened to us. He changed our lives. | | Then we pay again in social services for those squeezed out by factory farms. And we pay again in the costs of urban crowding and sprawl.
"So, sure, you can say the price tag of our network's food is often a little higher—producing sustainably costs more in labor, for instance—but conventional foods are not really less expensive. It's just that their costs are hidden.
"The future of sustainable agriculture is in the hands of the consumer— as consumers, we must literally start seeing price differently," he says ada-
On some level, I guess I'd believed the tradeoff necessary, inevitable. | | Modern-Day Pirates
Between interviews, I browse the Foundation's dozens of books: Corgill: The New East India Company, Seeds of Suicide, even one called, Rani and Felicity: The Story of Two Chickens, a children's book about factory farms.
Sitting on a comfortable couch, I flip open Biopiracy and learn about another heated debate: RiceTec Inc.'s patent on Basmati rice lines and grain that small farmers throughout India and Pakistan had developed over centuries. |
Gail A. Eisnitz
See book keywords and concepts |  I already knew that on factory farms that produce millions of hogs each year, breeding hogs, especially the females or sows, spend their entire lives inside tiny metal cages so small that they can never walk or even turn around. The practice, called "crating," has been outlawed on the grounds of cruelty in several European nations. Provided no bedding so dung can fall through to the waste pit below, sows are forced to live— eat, sleep, defecate, give birth, and nurse their young—on concrete or metal-slatted flooring. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  In the United States and other industrialized countries, pigs and chickens are almost all housed and fed in factory farms. Cattle typically graze on rangeland for the first part of their lives, and then are moved to feedlots for their last three or four months, where they are fed grain and soybeans, supplemented, lest they get bored with the cuisine, with dried poultry waste, sewage sludge, and worse.
It is nearly impossible to overestimate the impact of cattle grazing on the western United States. Seventy percent of the land area of the American West is currently used for grazing livestock. |
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