In the News . . .

• ‘Towns just turned to dust’: how factory hog farms help hollow out rural communities -- The Guardian (5 May 2022)
  
  
• US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker -- The Guardian (28 April 2022)
  
  
• UK has more than 1,000 livestock mega-farms, investigation reveals -- The Guardian (18 August 2022)
  
  
• Rare footage from a factory farm reveals the brutal cost of cheap chicken -- The New York Times (11:48; 10 February 2022)
  
  
• Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet -- The New York Times (14:27; 01 February 2022)
  
  
• America has a manure problem, and the miracle solution being touted isn’t all that it seems -- The Guardian (20 January 2022)
  
  
• Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic -- The Guardian (18 October 2022)
  
  
• Vertical Integration -- National Chicken Council (10 February 2020)
  
  
• ‘A lot of abuse for little pay’: how US farming profits from exploitation and brutality [US farms made $200m via human smuggling and labor trafficking operation] -- The Guardian (25 December 2021)
  
  
• The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead? – BBCNews (20 December 2021)
  
  
• We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror -- The New York Times (16 December 2021)
  
  
• ‘Toilet of Europe’: Spain’s pig farms blamed for mass fish die-offs -- TheGuardian (13 October 2021)
  
  
• The foods that reverse climate change -- BBCfuture (28 January 2021)
  
  
• COVID-19 horror stories at meat industry factories aren't surprising -- Business Insider (6 Decmber 2020)
  
  
• Yes, it smells like poop around the Twin Cities today -- Bring Me the MN News (09 October 2020)
  
  
• 'A savagely broken food system': Cory Booker wants radical reform ... now -- The Guardian (15 September 2020)
  
  
• Industrial farming outweighs willpower in obesity crisis, experts say -- CT Mirror (13 September 2020)
  
  
• Food and pandemics: Is intensive animal farming the ‘single most risky human behaviour’? -- FOODnavigator (21 August 2020)
  
  
• Is the way cattle are grazed the key to saving America's prairies? -- The Guardian (19 August 2020)
  
  
• Animal feedlots are a likely threat to drinking water in Minnesota, says report -- The Guardian (28 May 2020)
  
  
• It's time to dismantle factory farms and get used to eating less meat -- The Guardian (19 May 2020)
  
  
• Japanese Company Acquires 35 Bunge Locations Along Mississippi River -- AgWeb (23 April 2020)
  
  
• EPA sued for allowing slaughterhouses to pollute waterways -- The Guardian (18 October 2019)
  
  
• A celebrated peach farmer and author who often works in solitude talks to food leaders Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Raj Patel, and others about how food connects us all.
  
  
• The plight of a US dairy farm – BBCnews (15 August 2019)
  
  
• Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists -- The Guardian (08 August 2019)
  
  
• Is the US chicken industry cheating its farmers? -- The Guardian (02 August 2019)
  
  
• Why your chicken wings mean we’ve entered a new epoch -- The Guardian (10 January 2019)
  
  
• McDonald's to curb use of antibiotics in its beef supply -- The Guardian (11 December 2018)
  
  
• Lagoons of Pig Waste Are Overflowing After Florence. Yes, That’s as Nasty as It Sounds -- The New York Times (19 September 2018)
  
  
• Underreporting of toxic waste at hog farms prompts inquiry -- The Guardian (06 June 2018)
  
  
• 'It’s wrong to stink up other people’s lives': fighting the manure lagoons of North Carolina -- The Guardian (24 May 2018)
  
  
• The price of plenty: how beef changed America -- The Guardian (07 May 2018)
  
  
• What's that smell? Farms, weather bring a stink into the Twin Cities -- MPRnews (21 November 2017)
  
  
• Can a River Sue a Farmer? -- AgWeb (06 November 2017)
  
  
• Industrial meat production is killing our seas. It's time to change our diets -- The Guardian (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Will Sonny Perdue, Trump's agriculture pick, stand up for the little guy? Don't bank on it -- The Guardian (25 April 2017)
  
  
• Fowl play: the chicken farmers being bullied by big poultry -- The Guardian (22 April 2017)
  
  
• The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat -- Civil Eats (29 March 2017)
  
  
• Minnesota farmers ready for new curbs on livestock antibiotics -- MPR (16 December 2016)
  
  
• US farmers go 'natural' for profits -- BBCNews (19 September 2016)
  
  
• Chemical giant Bayer agrees to buy Monsanto for $66 billion -- MPRNews (14 September 2016)
  
  
• Fertilizer giants to merge into largest crop-nutrient company -- Leslie Picker and Ian Austen, New York Times, StarTribune (13 September 2016)
  
  
• In quest for happier chickens, Perdue shifts how birds live and die -- MPRNews (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Minnesota Becomes Largest Funder of Farm Safety -- Farm Journal/AgWeb (09 June 2016)
  
  
• What $62 billion in cash could buy you: Monsanto -- MPRNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer's Monsanto bid to create biggest agricultural supplier -- BBCNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer makes takeover offer for agriculture giant Monsanto -- BBCNews (19 May 2016)
  
  
• Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide -- MPRNews (18 May 2016)
  
  
• Random acts of conservation: Water quality depends on farmers' willingness, not regulation -- MPRNews (17 May 2016)
  
  
• Feds' financial safety net may not catch some Minnesota farmers -- MPRNews (22 March 2016)
  
  
• Farmers feel thrown under the bus as Big Food changes -- MPRnews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• Report: More pollinators species in jeopardy, threatening world food supply -- MPRNews (28 February 2016
  
  
• How Much of the Most Common Weed Killer Are You Eating? The FDA Doesn’t Know -- TakePart (19 February 2016)
  
  
• The Trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses -- Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine (February 2016)
  
  
• Meat Is Murdering American Rivers -- takepart (16 February 2016)
  
  
• A Probable Carcinogen Is Now the Most Heavily Used Weed Killer in History -- takepart (02 Febraury 2016)
  
  
• A Camera That Sees Methane -- Discover (04 December 2015)
  
  
• Fears grow over increased antibiotic resistance -- BBC News (16 October 2015)
  
  
• Protesters take aim at McDonald's, potato giant over water use, pesticides -- MPRNews (05 October 2015)
  
  
• DIY tractor repair runs afoul of copyright law -- MPRNews (17 August 2015)
  
  
• Ashland County moves toward moratorium on large animal farms amid concerns over hog proposal -- StarTribune (14 August 2015)
  
  
• Study finds bug diversity cuts down on crop pests -- MPRNews (31 July 2015)
  
  
• U study: Emissions from fertilizing crops underestimated -- MPRNews (27 July 2015)
  
  
• Inside the world's largest food company you've probably never heard of -- MPRNews (10 July 2015)
  
  
• In farm country, tainted water is 'just the way it is' -- StarTribune (04 July 2015)
  
  
• Big feedlots feed big worries in southern Minnesota -- MPRNews (06 April 2015)
  
  
• Dude, Where’s My Carnitas? Why Chipotle Pulled the Plug on Pork -- Josh Scherer, takepart (14 January 2015)
  
  
• Food Forward: Urban Agriculture Across America -- PBSvideo (2014)
  
  
  • The Meat of the Matter [video 24:44] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • Go Fish! [video 24:45] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (29 August 2014)
  • SOS: Save Our Soil [video 24:46] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • Seeds of Change [video 24:40] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (05 September 2014)
  • Pilot Episode: Urban Farming [video 24:31] -- Food Forward, PBSvideo (04 April 2012)
    
    
• What a Difference a Cage Makes: California's Humane Egg Battle -- Twilight Greenaway, Civil Eats (03 September 2014)
  
  
• The Toxic Algae Are Not Done With Toledo. Not By a Long Stretch -- Tom Philpott, Mother Jones (6 August 2014)
  
  
• In the making of America's megafarms, a few winners and many losers -- MPRNews (17 June 2014)
  
  
• How to Feed the World -- Mark Bittman, New York Times (15 October 2013)
  
  
• American farmers say they feed the world, but do they? -- MPRNews (17 September 2013)
  
  
• Front Groups Exposed: 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion About Junk Food, GMOs and Harmful Additives -- Mercola, Joseph M., Nation of Change (2 June 2013)
  
  
• We are not amused: Prince launches scathing attack on food industry -- Nathan Gray, FOODNavigator.com (28 May 2013)
  
  
• Censoring Our Food -- Jill RIchardson, Nation of Change (26 May 2013)
  
  
• Big-Ag Afraid of its Reflection, Seeks Ag-Gag Bill for Protection -- Aly Miller, Food Politic (24 April 2013)
  
  
• Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime -- Richard A. Oppel, Jr., New York Times (06 April 2013)
  
  
• Hicks Nix Climate Fix -- Timothy Egan, The New York Times (7 March 2013)
  
  
• Pachirat, Timothy. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. Yale University Press, 2013.
  
  
• Official Ram Trucks Super Bowl Commercial "Farmer": So God Made a Farmer: Paul Harvey and the Power of Religious Language (video) -- Trent Gilliss, On Being with Krista Tippett (03 February 2013) [Third most popular ad in 2013 USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter Contest Super Bowl Ads for 2013 were $8,000,000 per minute]
  
  
• Cargill Defends its Interests I the Capitals of the world: A Global Agenda” -- Minneapolis StarTribune (22 April 2012)
  
  
• Heritage Site Under Attack from Fertilizers -- Past Horizons (29 December 2011)
  
  
• A Tail of Two Dairies--How to End the Crisis on Our Farms -- Barry Estabrook, Gastronomica, Fall 2010, pp. 48-52

• After the passing of Norman Borlaug, commentators offer assessments on his legacy and work -- The Scout Report, 18 September 2009 | Volume 15, Number 37
  
  
• Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP)
  
  
• Booth, Sue, and John Coveney. Food Democracy: From Consumer to Food Citizen . NY: Springer, 2015.
  
  
• Compassion in World Farming Trusts
  
  
• Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)
  
  
• EarthSave International [ ". . . founded by . . . John Robbins, as a direct result of the overwhelming reader response to his book Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices oAffect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth" (Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope)]
  
  
• Essig, Mark. Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. NY: Basic Books, 2015.
  
  
• Farm Sanctuary
  
  
• Food Animal Production -- Teaching the Food System, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
  
• Genoways, Ted. The Chain: Farm, Factory and the Fate of Our Food. NY: Harper-Collins, 2014.
  
  
• Grandin, Temple. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  
  
• Grandin, Temple -- "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow: The world's most famous person with autism uses her unusual cognitive abilities to reduce animal suffering" -- BBC (49 min. 2006)
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• Harvey, Graham. The Killing Of The Countryside, New Edition. Vintage, 2011.
  
  
• Hauter, Wenonah. Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. New Press, 2012.
  
  
• Hedgepeth, William. The Hog Book. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
  
  
• Horwitz, Richard P. Hog Ties: What Pigs Tell Us About America. NY: St. Martin's, 1998.
  
  
• Imhoff, Daniel (Ed.). The CAFO Reader: The Gragedy of Industrial Animal Factories. Heraldsburg, CA: Watershed, 2010.
  
  
• Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. NY: St. Martin's, 2010.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Lyson, Thomas A. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. (Medford, MA: Tufts University Press, 2004.
  
  
• Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center Part IA-E - Agriculture Crops & Horticulture
  
  
• The Meatrix
  
  
• Millstone, Erik, and Tim Lang. The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
  
  
• Modules: Free Ag Energy Curriculum for Teachers -- AgEnergyIA.org and Eastern Iowa Community Colleges
  
  
• Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
  
  

• Niman, Nicolette Hahn. Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food beyond Factory Farms. NY: HarperCollins, 2009.
  
  
• Ogle, Maureen. In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  
  
• Pachirat, Timothy. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
  
  
• People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals
  
  
• Pimentel, David and Marcia Pimentel. Food, Energy, and Society, Third Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2008.
  
  
• Putting Meat On The Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America -- A Report of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
  
  
• Roberts, Paul. The End of Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
  
  
• Salatin, Joel. The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs. NY: Faith Works, 2016.
  
  
• Schmidt, Ted. P. The Political Economy of Food and Finance. NY: Routledge, 2016.
  
  
• Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. NY: Harper Perennial, 2001.
  
  
• A Tail of Two Dairies--How to End the Crisis on Our Farms -- Barry Estabrook, Gastronomica, Fall 2010, pp. 48-52
  
  
• Tansey, and Geoff and Anthony Worsley. The Food System : A Guide. NY: Earthscan, 1995.
  
  
• Weber, Karl (Ed.). Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter and Poorer--And What You Can Do About it. NY: Public Affairs, 2009.
  
  
• Webster, John. Animal Welfare: Limping towards Eden. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
  
  
• Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
  
  
• Winson, Anthony. The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating. UBC Press, 2013.
  
  
• Winson, Anthony. The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating. NY: NYU Press, 2013.