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The Grace Factory Farm Project
The
stated goal of the Grace Factory Farm Project is to eliminate factory
farming in favor of a sustainable production system which is healthful
and humane, economically viable, and ecologically sound.
Grace's Guide to Confronting a CAFO
The Meatrix Movies
These cartoon short movie features Moopheus, Leo, and Chickity
on a quest to free animals from the "factory farm."
The U.S. Humane Society Factory Farm Project
As stated at the USHS web site the organization strives daily to improve the lives of animals.
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture
Written
by: Leo Horrigan, Robert S. Lawrence, and Polly Walker, Center
for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The industrial
agriculture system consumes fossil fuel, water, and topsoil at
unsustainable rates. It contributes to numerous forms of environmental
degradation, including air and water pollution, soil depletion,
diminishing biodiversity, and fish die-offs. Meat production
contributes disproportionately to these problems, in part because
feeding grain to livestock to produce meat--instead of feeding it
directly to humans--involves a large energy loss, making animal
agriculture more resource intensive than other forms of food
production. The proliferation of factory-style animal agriculture
creates environmental and public health concerns, including pollution
from the high concentration of animal wastes and the extensive use of
antibiotics, which may compromise their effectiveness in medical use. Read More...
The Most Sustainable Farming in History Gives The World Its Finest
Food Choices:
A Response to The Johns Hopkins University Authors of "How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture"
Written by: By Dennis T. Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
A group of academics from Johns Hopkins University says the world
should abandon the high-yield science-based agriculture that has doubled
the world’s food supply in 50 years, increased per capita calories for Third World people by more than 30 percent, reduced
soil erosion per ton of food to the lowest levels in history—and saved an estimated 16
million square miles of wildlands (equal to the world’s total forest area) from being
plowed for low-yield crops. Read More...
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