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With the recent decision of the Department of Justice to investigate the mounting evidence of over-consolidation of the food industry, it seems fair to ask whether the pendulum of centralization, maximization of production, monoculture industrial farming, and the existence of mega-farms (technically referred to as CAFO's), has shifted the pendulum too far.
Rebecca Gerendasy: Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video) 2010
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If you eat meat, the odds are high that you've enjoyed a meal made from an animal raised on a factory farm (also known as a CAFO).
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Confined Animal Feeding Operations, aka CAFO's, would be a good place to begin looking.
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The issue is complicated, Nestle said, because corn is highly subsidized by the federal government and those subsidies make "concentrated animal feeding operations" (called CAFO's) possible.
Livescience.com 2008
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On the other hand, Shauna Ahern of Pork, Knife and Spoon, a mouth-watering blog sponsored by The National Pork Board, wrote a very sympathetic post last month about her visit to a "pig farm" that she only later supposedly realized was a "CAFO," the owner of which refused to allow her to document any of the animals or their dwellings.
Leslie Hatfield: Factory vs. Sustainable Pork Production: Two Videos, One Case for Transparency 2010
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On the other hand, Shauna Ahern of Pork, Knife and Spoon, a mouth-watering blog sponsored by The National Pork Board, wrote a very sympathetic post last month about her visit to a "pig farm" that she only later supposedly realized was a "CAFO," the owner of which refused to allow her to document any of the animals or their dwellings.
Leslie Hatfield: Factory vs. Sustainable Pork Production: Two Videos, One Case for Transparency 2010
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CAFO confined animal feeding operation is the acronym for the factory farms in which our meat is processed.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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The CAFO operators are trying to sneak through a law that would ban taking pictures of CAFOs.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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The CAFO operators are trying to sneak through a law that would ban taking pictures of CAFOs.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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CAFO confined animal feeding operation is the acronym for the factory farms in which our meat is processed.
J Henry Fair: This Little Piggy Went to Market... J Henry Fair 2011
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A sizable body of research indicates that living in close proximity to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), including feedlots, can cause or exacerbate health problems.
Something in the Air Christopher Collins 2021
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-more-evidence-do-we-need-to-stop-killing-pigs-for-food
But pigs suffer on an astounding scale on their way to our tables. Of the 100 million pigs annually raised for food in the United States, 97 per cent are confined to factory farms. These farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations) can best be described as ‘huge lagoons of pig sewage’. These farms do great environmental harm, and the pigs there endure short, miserable lives.
July 20, 2017