Factory Farming

My Friend, the American Farmer

January 28, 2025 by Sage Edwards

I’ve spent extensive time over the last five years in Detroit, Michigan, living there for periods, and visiting family. I can safely say, while I love Detroit, it’s not for me to call home. However, despite knowing that I wouldn’t… [read]

Collagen Supplements Test Positive for Heavy Metals

May 24, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: May 26, 2020

The Organic Consumers Association and the Clean Label project recently tested 28 top-selling collagen supplement brands sold through Amazon. The results from testing show that 64% of supplements tested positive for measurable levels of arsenic, 37% tested positive for measurable… [read]

Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna Co-Sponsor Cory Booker’s Farm System Reform Act

May 9, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 11, 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) have announced that they will co-sponsor the Farm System Reform Act (FSRA) introduced by Cory Booker (D-NJ). Khanna also introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. The FSRA is designed… [read]

Pig Farmers Will Start Culling Herds Due to Lack of Processing Plants

May 4, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: May 4, 2020

President Trump’s recent executive order to keep meat and poultry processing plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic might not be enough to keep farmers from culling their herds. Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, told a… [read]

Millions of Chickens Gassed as Food Supply Chain Collapses

April 27, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: April 28, 2020

As COVID-19 deaths in the United States finally pass the 1 million mark, another population will see a decline of twice that many. Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc announced that poultry plants in Delaware and Maryland will “depopulate” (humanely kill) 2… [read]

Industrial Livestock May Be Origin of COVID-19, Not Chinese Wet Markets

April 12, 2020 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: April 12, 2020

At this point, many epidemiologists do not believe that SARS-CoV-2 made the jump from animal to human in the infamous Wuhan wet-market. Since a lot of people caught it from the market back in January much of the media decided… [read]

Four out of Five Samples of Walmart Pork Contained Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

November 29, 2019 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: December 23, 2019

In a recent report released by World Animal Protection (WAP) entitled U.S. Pork and the Superbug Crises, 80 percent of the samples tested from Walmart Stores in the Mid-Atlantic region contained bacteria resistant to at least one antibiotic. On the… [read]