Summary: How America Turned Its Livestock Farms into Factories
Editorial note: Although focused on the USA, this report – pubished by Food & Water Watch – is the best we have found on the envioronmental impact and animal welfare issues surrounding Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFOs)
Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish Americans consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.
Link: http://factoryfarmmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/FactoryFarmNation-web.pdf
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Summary: Yuval Noah Harari: Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history (09.2015)
The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line
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Summary: SWINE – a very British horror story
Antibiotic Resistance is a reality. SWINE – Resistance has arrived – the world’s most destructive industry has a secret it doesn’t want you to know about, Jack Tomlins goes undercover to reveal the truth.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYhAJ6MDrc&sns=em
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Summary: The joy of eggs – how ‘nature’s multivitamin’ shook off the scare stories (12.2017)
Decades of dud healthy-eating guidance sent the humble egg into nutritional exile. But with new advice about runny yolks suggesting that salmonella in raw eggs is a thing of the past, it’s time to lick the cake bowl again
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Summary: American Farm Towns, With Changing Priorities, Reject Industrial Agriculture (12.2017)
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Summary: The Road To Hamburger Hell (10.2017)
Link: https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/66785347/posts/8302
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Summary: Read this and you may never eat chicken again (10.2017)
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Summary: Why factory farming is not just cruel – but also a threat to all life on the planet (10.2017)
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Summary: Sixth mass extinction of wildlife also threatens global food supplies (09.2017)
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Summary: Burger King animal feed sourced from deforested lands in Brazil and Bolivia (08.2017)
Campaign group Mighty Earth says aerial drones, satellite imaging and field research show farmers carried out forest-burning for fast food giant’s soy suppliers
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Summary: Factory farming in Asia creating global health risks, report warns (08.2017)
Growth of intensive units has potential to increase antibiotic resistance and could result in spread of bird flu beyond the region.
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Summary: Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany as insecticide scandal widens (08.2017)
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Summary: Millions of eggs removed from European shelves over toxicity fears (08.2017)
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Summary: Meat industry blamed for largest-ever ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico (08.2017)
A new report shows toxins from suppliers to companies like Tyson Foods are pouring into waterways, causing marine life to leave or die
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Summary: Global diet and farming methods ‘must change for environment’s sake’ (06.2017)
Reducing meat consumption and using more efficient farming methods globally are essential to stave off irreversible damage to the environmental, a new study says.
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Summary: Meatonomics’ David Robinson Simon: ‘Everything I envision for meat has happened with tobacco’ (06.2017)
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Summary: Exploring American beef feedlots (29.12.2016)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuebll7po70
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Summary: How a commercial feedlot business works (3.01.2012)
Link: ALBERS_FEEDLOT_TOUR.m4v [copy and paste]
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Summary: Is feedlot beef bad for the environment? (12.07.2015)
Feedlots play a huge but controversial role in the raising of beef cattle in the U.S., which produced an estimated 24.3 billion pounds of beef last year, down slightly from an average of 26 billion for the previous five years.
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-feedlot-beef-bad-for-the-environment-1436757037
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Summary: How feedlots are polluting the earth (28.04.2014)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZJ3Qq4oOQE
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Summary: Some of the health and sustainable issues surrounding feedlots (10.04.2012)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZJ3Qq4oOQE
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Summary: An environmental look at American feedlots (USDA) (2003)
Link: https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/ar/archive/2003/jul/feed0703.pdf
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Summary: Feedlots and their impact
Link: https://aboutenvironment.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/feedlots-and-its-impacts/
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Summary: The shame of concentrated animal feedlot operations (CAFOs)
Link: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-shame-of-concentrated-animal-feedlots
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Summary: Why Beef Is Becoming More Like Chicken (14.02.2013)
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Summary: The health costs of eating factory farmed chicken
Link: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/23/cheap-factory-farmed-chicken.aspx
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Summary: Woman who helps thirsty pigs evades jail
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39799514
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and some alternative solutions:
Summary: Could lab-grown fish and meat feed the world – without killing a single animal? (09.2017)
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Summary: Can these super-crops feed Africa? (08.2017)
Africa’s population is set to boom over the next few decades – reaching 2.5 billion people by 2050. Scientists in Kenya are trying to find ways of growing enough food for everyone.
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-40998384/can-these-super-crops-feed-africa
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Summary: ‘Grow food on Mars’: LA startups tackle climate change with inventive solutions (07.2017)
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Summary: Lab-grown meat: The future of food? (07.2017)
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-40496863/lab-grown-meat-the-future-of-food
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Summary: Impossible Foods CEO: we want to eliminate all meat from human diets (07.2017)
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Summary: Ancient crops, future food (06.2017)
Vegetable proteins can be an alternative to meat in diets given that today’s intensive meat production is polluting the environment. Plants like quinoa and amaranth offer similar nutritional values. The FAO predicts world food demand will rise 70 percent by 2050
Link: http://www.euronews.com/2017/06/19/takeaway-ancient-crops-future-food
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A record of mankind's degradation of planet earth 