The terrible people down the street who decided it would be a great idea to start a Tyson chicken factory farm on my street and don't live here harvested their first batch of chickens last night. I just saw a giant truck packed with chickens drive by. It smells awful and I cough every time I go outside even though I'm about 1/4 mile away. This is why I no longer buy any grocery store chicken, each one represents other people's communities ruined by a giant corporation. #FactoryFarms #Chickens

The US Cattlemen’s Association is supporting transparency. #God bless the ranchers. This is the difference between a trade association working to support REAL ranchers & one focused on #BillGates #CCP #FactoryFarms. NO reason to oppose Missouri #HB1169.

https://uscattlemen.org/u-s-cattle-producers-reaffirm-safety-transparency-of-beef-supply-chain/

🇺🇸@AttorneyThomasRenz

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/lab-grown-meat-moves-closer-american-dinner-plates-2023-01-23/ Another draw is that growing meat in a steel vessel instead of in a field could reduce the environmental impact of livestock, which are responsible for 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions #GrownMeat #environmental #veganfood #GreenFood #FactoryFarms

Time to stop #factoryfarms in #Powys polluting our watercourses https://cprw.org.uk/cms-data/resources/12012023%20Joint%20letter%20to%20Julie%20James_Planning%20IPUs.pdf

Sign on! Corey taking on #factoryfarms

#LoveAnimals #FriendsNotFood #GoVegan #Vegan #PlantBased #Veganism #Veganforlife #VeganForTheAnimals #AllAnimalsAreEqual #DontKillAnimals #Animals #AnimalRights #ahimsa #dharma

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Two recent @nytimes articles on our broken food system. 1: Farmland Values Hit Record Highs, Pricing Out Farmers. Small farmers are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/farmland-values-prices.html) (subscription-firewalled link)

2. Labor Department Finds 31 Children Cleaning Meatpacking Plants (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/child-labor-meatpacking-plants.html) This one hits close to home, as some of the child laborers were identified in my home state of Minnesota. The working conditions are horrible: "Their jobs included cleaning kill floors, meat- and bone-cutting saws, grinding machines and electric knives, according to court documents. The mix of boys and girls were not fluent English speakers and were interviewed mostly in Spanish, investigators said." "The Labor Department found that several minors employed by the company, including one 13-year-old, suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries. One 14-year-old, who worked from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. five to six days a week, suffered injuries from chemical burns from cleaning machines used to cut meat. School records showed that the student fell asleep in class or missed class because of the job at the plant."

The above articles highlight just two (or so) of the problems with mass-produced factory-farm food. There are other problems.
A strong case can be made for buying as much of your food as possible from small, local producers. CSAs, farmers markets, direct-from-farm purchases. And grow some of your own food as well: Victory Gardens!

#foodsystem #BigAgriculture #agriculture #sustainability #childlabor #immigrantlabor #factoryfarms #meat #gardening #farmersmarket

RT @XR_Belgium@twitter.com

🔴 BREAKING: XR Animal took over @McDonalds@twitter.com in the center of Brussels and the Place de la Bourse for a #StopEcocideFood action.
We denounce the responsibility of @McDonalds@twitter.com in the ongoing ecocide and its links with #FactoryFarms of intensive breeding.
#Stopspeciesm #XRAnimal

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/XR_Belgium/status/1535936552492273667

RT @XR_Belgium@twitter.com

🔴 BREAKING: XR Animal took over @McDonalds@twitter.com in the center of Brussels and the Place de la Bourse for a #StopEcocideFood action.
We denounce the responsibility of @McDonalds@twitter.com in the ongoing ecocide and its links with #FactoryFarms of intensive breeding.
#Stopspeciesm #XRAnimal

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/XR_Belgium/status/1535936552492273667

The #DisgustingThings I Witnessed in #FactoryFarms | Informer

#VICENews
An undercover investigator for #animalrights groups has spent the last 25 years covertly filming at factory farms across the UK and Europe. They are nothing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7YVijzeGbs