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Frankie ✅

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists

For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.

wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe-a

WIRED · How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as TerroristsBy Dell Cameron
#news#politics#business
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Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪

River Action wins court ruling that #chicken megafarms will have to treat their manure as industrial waste - not only will #factoryfarms in the catchment of the River Wye now face controls of their pollution of soil/rivers, but livestock operations producing manure across the #UK will now need to take responsibility for disposing of their waste in a lawful way.

A huge legal precedent in the fight against #livestock polluting soil and rivers!

picture of a chicken farm, with thousands of chickens not living how they should, packed up together in a factory. Title reads: Chicken manure can be classified as industrial waste, judge rules.
#food#meat#plantbased
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Richard Ashwell

Factory Farms Cost UK Taxpayers Over 1.2 Billion Pounds Per Year, Says New Report

The report estimates that 85 percent of #FarmingSubsidies for chicken and pig farmers are absorbed by #FactoryFarms, which is around £269 million per year.

#FactoryFarming is linked to extensive environmental #pollution and related #PublicHealth issues. The report estimates the cost of #water and #air pollution from factory farms to be £518 million, while the cost of increased respiratory deaths is around £92 million.

plantbasednews.org/news/enviro

Plant Based News · Factory Farms Cost UK Taxpayers Over 1.2 Billion Pounds Per Year, Says New ReportA report by the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) finds that factory farming costs UK taxpayers over GBP £1.2 billion per year
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Magpieblog

Something I notice in this report (and in most others on the subjecti) is that there is almost no mention of the role of factory farms in the the spread of H5N1. While these large operations may provide economies of scale, they also increase risks to animal and human health.

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#BirdFlu #H5N1 #pandemics #FactoryFarms

nytimes.com/2024/12/13/science

The New York Times · For Wild Animals, the Bird Flu Disaster Is Already HereBy Emily Anthes
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Miss Gayle

Our current commercial hybrids require petrochemical fertilizers & industrial tech to make work, so basically, they're useless for the reality that's coming. Peak oil, phosphorus, and resource depletion in general, as well as the climate collapse, will all but wipe out that kind of farming.

atlasobscura.com/articles/sval

"...The vault would protect... “Indigenous biocultural heritage,” an interweaving of scientific & cultural value..."

Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault Banks Biodiversity and Sprouts Controversy The Arctic facility is the world’s largest safeguard for seeds—and fertile ground for critics and conspiracy theories. by Adriana Craciun December 2, 2024 This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. The controversy sprouting at a global seed vault: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is the world's must famous backup site for seeds that are more precious than data. Unassuming as the facility might seem, however, it's been politically controversial since it opened in 2008. It is the most visible site in a global agricultural research network that supported the Green Revolution: an effort to introduce high-yielding seeds to developing nations in the mid-20th century. This saved millions of people from starvation, but it shifted agriculture in a technology intensive direction - and the Global Seed Vault a lightening rod for critiques of that effort and its long term impacts. Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet, and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change.
#Agriculture#Farming#FoodSecurity
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Richard Ashwell

I am an Octopus (Narrated by Peter Egan)

I am an octopus trapped in a tiny tank,
Crowded prison cells, which they call farms.
It’s dark, dirty and deadly,
I can’t stretch my eight arms.

I am an octopus trapped in a tiny tank.
No solitude or peace, I weep and shake,
So a greedy two-armed man can take cash to the bank.
I don’t yet know how to get out and dream of escape…

I am an octopus who is free to roam the salty seas.
With eight arms I jet along the ocean floor.
I crawl, I climb and through rocks I squeeze,
To forage for food and explore.

When I feel sleepy or want to hide away,
I build a den using shells from scallops and clams.
When I see a shark, I fear I’ll become prey,
So my skin goes lumpy, bumpy, and changes color.

My home, the ocean, is dying.
Men steal fishes from the sea to feed us.
They say breeding us will save the planet, but they are lying.
The octopus farms cause me and the ocean so much harm.

The two-armed man artificially impregnates the females.
Then he prods and stabs us to find out how best to kill us.
Big business is trying to play God,
But Mother Nature strikes back with climate chaos.

I am an octopus but I am like you.
On the surface we may look very different -
Your blood is red and mine is blue,
You have one brain and I have nine.

Don’t eat my brainy arms,
They think and feel and are not for you to chew!
Drop your knife and raise your placards,
And shout out ‘NO, to octopus farms!’

Make your one heart big,
Listen to my one, two, three hearts beat.
The free rhythms of this short song called life
Ring-a-ding-ding ring–a-ding-ding, be my octopus defender!

Swimming in the ocean I feel so alive,
Now planet Earth can bustle and thrive.
Dive deep and show compassion,
Link your arms in octopus fashion,

And sign the Plant Based Treaty!

They wander through the ocean and seas,
To undo the damage we have done.
So let’s eat plants and plant trees,
And preach that all life is one,

And that when humans wish to harm other animals, they really do evil to themselves.

Narration by: Peter Egan

Script written by: Nicola Harris, Anita Krajnc

youtube.com/watch?v=o-ZLp-JVEJ

YouTubeI am an Octopus (Narrated by Peter Egan) | #StopOctopusFarmingBy Plant Based Treaty
#StopOctopusFarming#FactoryFarms#FactoryFarming
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Richard Ashwell

Compassion in World Farming's new undercover investigation, released 4th November, exposes the immense suffering of around 70 million rabbits still caged on farms across Europe and reinforces the urgent need for the European Commission to deliver its promised #CageBan.

Anthony Field, Head of our UK Office, said: “This investigation clearly shows the systemic cruelty of caged farming across Europe. This is not about a couple of bad farms mistreating animals in certain countries, this is representative of caged rabbit farming throughout the EU in the absence of species-specific requirements for the welfare of farmed rabbits in EU law.

“Cages simply cannot meet the physiological and behavioural needs of farmed animals, and their use is unnecessary.."

ciwf.org.uk/news/2024/11/cruel

Compassion in World Farming · Cruelty exposé reinforces crucial need for EU cage banBy Compassion in World Farming
#animals#farming#AnimalFarming
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Richard Ashwell

Friends of The Earth: Our new video shows how #soybeans grown in South America feed #livestock in Northern Ireland. And in turn, how their #waste feeds the toxic algae that have a chokehold on Lough Neagh. Watch and share – let's raise the alarm

youtube.com/watch?v=zXSS0SnGMB

YouTubeSoy Story from trough to truth: demystifying how we feed animals reared for meat in Northern IrelandBy Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland
#Pollution#AnimalAgriculture#FactoryFarms
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Jennifer

The Tyson factory farm down the street smells so bad tonight I can't tolerate being outside. It's 0.25 miles away. I frequently wonder what it's like for the tens of thousands of chickens stuffed inside the huge houses with no windows. Nasty and extremely unsanitary. They'll all end up in the grocery store in pretty cellophane, at McDonald's, or Chik Fil A. #Tennessee #Chicken #FactoryFarms #Vegan

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