Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future by Steven McFadden

Author:Steven McFadden [McFadden, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Light and Sound Press
Published: 2019-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

From the stockyard to those with meat in their mouths, everyone involved has a responsibility to face the shadow and to weigh the considerations.

Animal Factories—Organic farmers ostensibly have to accommodate animals’ natural behaviors, but relevant USDA Organic standards have been weakened in recent years as a consequence of industry lobbying. By now we have animal factories with as many as 15,000 cows on what are called “organic farms.” Big ag is pushing, in many cases distorting, organic standards to make this possible. Now that transnational corporations have invested in organics, they angle to use that label for marketing purposes with as little encumbrance as possible, in terms of their bottom line.

One of the most glaring examples of paradoxical contrast between economic and ecological outcomes is the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) system for meat production.

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