{"id":29990,"date":"2017-10-24T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29990"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:49:46","slug":"family-farms-not-factory-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/family-farms-not-factory-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Farms Not Factory Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be completely honest from the outset, I like most cats, am a carnivore, and I know of no way to eat meat without killing it first.  But I believe that food animals should be raised, treated, and killed humanely on family farms.  Beyond violating animal rights, factory farms threaten human health and the environment.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The world desperately needs joined-up action on industrial farming if it is to avoid catastrophic impacts on life on earth<\/strong>, according to the head of one of the world’s most highly regarded animal campaign groups.<\/p>\n

Philip Lymbery, chief executive of Compassion in World Farming (CIWF<\/a>) and the author of Farmageddon<\/a> and more recently Deadzone<\/a>, said:<\/p>\n

Every day there is a new confirmation of how destructive, inefficient, wasteful, cruel and unhealthy the industrial agriculture machine is. We need a total rethink of our food and farming systems before it’s too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

His comments came on the eve of Compassion’s recent Livestock and Extinction<\/a> conference in London, which brought together scientists, campaigners, U.N. representatives and multinational food corporations including Compass, Tesco and McDonald’s. The conference aims to bring together a wide range of voices and connect up the many impacts that factory farming has on our planet. <\/p>\n

The conference came against a backdrop of alarming expos\u00e9s of industrial farming. Last month, a Guardian\/ITV investigation<\/a> showed chicken factory staff in the U.K. changing crucial food safety information on chickens, while a month ago the European Commission admitted that eggs containing a harmful pesticide may have been on sale in as many as 16 countries<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the U.S. in August, meanwhile, campaigners identified the world’s largest ever "deadzone"<\/a> \u2014an area in the sea where pollutants from farms create algal blooms that kill off or disperse marine life\u2014and singled out the U.S.’s heavily industrialized factory farm system as a major cause…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I trust that many of you know far more about this subject than I do, so I welcome your input.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be completely honest from the outset, I like most cats, am a carnivore, and I know of no way to eat meat without killing it first.  But I believe that food animals should be raised, treated, and killed humanely on family farms.  Beyond violating animal rights, factory farms threaten human health and the environment. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}