The PPJ Gazette

Find out by viewing Pig Business

Pig Business, featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr., and UK eco-campaigner and director Tracy Worcester, reveals how U.S. concentrated agriculture feeding operations (CAFOs) are now moving to Eastern Europe—particularly to Poland—and demonstrates the link between clearing forests in the Amazon to grow soy for feed to pig farms.

For more information go to: www.pigbusiness.co.uk

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Buy local foods by joining a CSA group, visiting a farmers market or using the Eat Well Guide to find a farm near you.  

Relevant Legislation

• Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (House Only)
• Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (House version) (Senate version)
• Ohio Livestock Care Initiative 

For More Information

• Visit Sustainable Table or the Center for Food Safety for more information on factory farming and how you can help
• Watch The Meatrix
• For more resources and reports about the factory farm system, please visit www.factoryfarm.org.
• To find out which corporate farms received the bulk of government subsidies from 1995-2004, visit the Environmental Working Group’s Farm Subsidy Database.

Reports and Articles

• CAFO’s Uncovered – Union of Concerned Scientists report on factory farming.
• How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture – This article lays out the main problems with industrial farming today, and gives sustainable solutions to these problems.