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Factory Farms

With New Leadership on the Way, Public Health Experts Demand WHO Take on Factory Farms

Has Last Shoe Dropped in Fight Against Superbugs?

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Underscoring the potential public health threats widespread agricultural practices pose, bacteria resistant to a class of last-resort antibiotics known as carbapenems has for the first time been found on a U.S. pig farm. The findings were published Monday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy , a journal of the American Society for Microbiology...

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'Climate Tax' on Meat and Dairy Would Sink Emissions and Diseases: Study

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Taxing the meat and dairy industries for their impact on climate would lead to...

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Millions Face Hunger by 2030 Without 'Deep Transformation' of Agriculture: UN

A new report from the United Nations released Monday brought another dire...

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Global Investors to Big Food: Cut Meat to Avoid 'Protein Bubble'

Antibiotics Expert Warns It's 'Almost Too Late' to Stop Global Superbug

Farm Sanctuary Gets Lift from Celebrity Couple Jon and Tracey Stewart

As McDonald's Signals Major Shift, A Reminder That 'Cage-Free' ≠ 'Cruelty-Free'

'Apologies... But the Farmers Are Coming'

Utah's 'Ag-Gag' Law May Have Found First Legal Targets

With Help From USDA, Factory Farms 'Masquerading' Products as Organic

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Center for Food Safety

Consumer Coalition Calls on In-N-Out Burger to Fulfill Promise to Reduce Antibiotics Use in Beef

Food & Water Watch

Dozens of Advocacy Groups Challenge EPA on Factory Farm Pollution

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Corporate Meat's Takeover through TTIP...

Animal Legal Defense Fund

ALDF Calls for Full Disclosure of Factory Egg Farm Conditions by FDA

Rodale Institute

Why Chipotle's Pork Problem is Good for Farmers...

Cornucopia Institute

Investigation: “Factory Farms” Producing Massive Quantities of Organic Milk and Eggs

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Sue Sturgis

NC Lawmakers Want to Shield Factory Farms from Big Damage Payments to Victims

Karen Stillerman

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