Resources

What follows is a set of informational resources on many of the aspects of "factory farming," also known as industrial (or intensive) animal agriculture. The resources are organized into thematic sections where links can be found to media articles, reports from UN and non-governmental groups, and relevant organizations and campaigns. Issues related to intensive aquaculture and fisheries are contained in the link titled "Aquatic Life." All other sections contain information on issues related to land-based animal agriculture.

These resources are intended as reference points for individuals, groups, journalists, scholars, and others interested in the scope and scale of industrial animal agriculture and its spread from industrialized countries to southern regions.

Categories

• Animals in Agriculture
• Aquatic Life
• Factory Farming: Environment
• Factory Farming: Globalization
• Factory Farming: Poverty and Food Security
• Factory Farming: Public Health
• Factory Farming: Social Justice
• Factory Farming: Organizations and Campaigns

Animals in Agriculture

• 2008-01-30: "Undercover Investigation Reveals Rampant Animal Cruelty at California Slaughter Plant – A Major Beef Supplier to America’s School Lunch Program," HSUS
• 2008-01-24: "Appalling Poultry Farms Exposed," BBC
• 2008-01-15: "US Authorities Approve Cloned Animal Foods," AFP
• 2007-07-25: "Bringing Moos and Oinks Into the Food Debate," New York Times
• 2007-03-21: "Egg Industry Comes Under Fire Again," Joplin Independent
• 2007-03-14: "Pig Out," New York Times
• 2007-03: "Mad Science: Cloned Milk and Meat on the Fast Track," Satya
• 2006-11: "Thanksgiving: Who's Behind the Meal," Satya - Entire issue dedicated to examining the turkey industry.
• 2006-10: "Milking Us Gently?" Satya - Second Volume dedicated to exploring 'humane' animal products.
• 2006-09: "Killing Us Softly," Satya - First Volume of the 'humane' meat debate.
• 2006-02: "The Chicken Issue," Satya - Comprehensive look at egg and chicken meat industries.
• 2004-11: "A Beef with India," Satya - Mark Hawthorne explores cow slaughter in India.
• 2004-11: "What Would Krishna Drink," Satya - Examines India's dairy industry
• 2002-11-10: "An Animal's Place," New York Times - Michael Pollan examines animals in agriculture.

Aquatic Life

• 2007-12-15: "In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters," New York Times
• 2007-04-01: "Tides of Extinction," Satya - The April/May issue explores the major threats facing our oceans and activists working to save them.
• 2006-11-03: "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services," Science magazine - Study warns that world's seafood supply could collapse by 2048.
• 2006-11-03: "World's Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn," Washington Post
• 2006-03-01: "The Last Days of the Ocean," Mother Jones - This March/April issue illustrates, "We're pushing our seas to the brink," and asks, "Can they be saved?"
• 2003-07-29: "Under the Sea: Conservation as Catch of the Day for Trawlnets," New York Times

Factory Farming: Environment

• 2008-04-29: "Putting Meat on the Table, Industrial Farm Animal Production in America," Pew Commission
• 2008-03-27: "Recipe for Climate Change," Minnesota Daily
• 2008-03-17: "New Carbon Calculus: What's Our Meatprint?" SolveClimate
• 2008-01-31: "Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change," Environmental Health Perspectives
• 2008-01-27: "Rethinking the Meat Guzzler," New York Times - Explores the environmental cost of American meat consumption, and questions the spread of this lifestyle in the developing world.
• 2008-01-16: "Lifestyle Changes Can Curb Climate Change," AFP - IPCC chief encourages lifestyle changes like reducing meat consumption to curb climate change.
• 2008-01-13: "World Bank Pledges to Save Trees . . . Then Helps Cut Down Amazon Forest," The Independent - World Bank's support of cattle ranching in the Amazon is identified as greatest threat to forest.
• 2008-01-07: "Cool farming: Climate Impacts of Agriculture and Mitigation Potential," Greenpeace
• 2008-01-01: "Can They Stay Out of Harm's Way?," New York Times - Conflict between cattle ranching and jaguars in the pantanal region of Brazil
• 2007-12-30: "Worse for Climate than Cars: Eating Meat," The Oregonian
• 2007-11-29: "The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming and Climate Change," HSUS
• 2007-09-13: "Limit Meat Eating to Tackle Climate Change," Sydney Morning Herald - Australian publication warns about the linkages between meat consumption and climate change.
• 2007-09-12: "Eating Less Meat May Slow Climate Change," Washington Post - In a series on energy and health, the medical journal The Lancet calls for a reduction of meat consumption by 10 percent.
• 2007-09-12: "Manure Matters," Farmed Animal Watch - Explores debate over CAFO manure regulations.
• 2007-08-29: "Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change," New York Times
• 2007-06: "Eat Less Meat: It's Costing the Earth," CIWF - This 17-minute film explores the impact of our increasing meat consumption and current intensive animal farming methods for human health and the economy, the environment and farmed animals.
• 2007-05-14: "Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global Warming," Common Dreams
• 2007-04-29: "The Heat Is On for Greenhouse Gas Methane," Reuters
• 2007-02-07: "Meet Daisy the Cow: Global Climate’s Enemy Number One," BBC
• 2007-02-01: "Put to the Test, Vegan is Best," Satya - Interview with Gidon Eshel.
• 2007: "Los Beneficios Globales de Ingerir Menos Carne," CIWF - Spanish translation of 'The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat'
• 2007: "The Impact of Livestock Farming: Solution for Animals, People, and the Planet," CIWF - Compassion in World Farming addresses the environmental impact of meat production and presents solutions.
• 2007: "Global Warning: Climate Change and Farm Animal Welfare," CIWF - Referenced report presenting the scientific evidence showing the impact of high-income countries' unsustainable overproduction and over-consumption of animal products on the environment, on the welfare of farm animals, and on human health.
• 2006-12-01: "Globalization of the Amazon Soy and Beef Industries: Opportunities for Conservation," Conservation Biology
• 2006-11-22: "Diet for a Hot Planet," Boston Globe - Explores link between soy production for meat consumption in deforestation of Amazon.
• 2006-11-01: "Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options," UNFAO - Report that documents livestock production as a major contributor to global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. It estimates livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the transport sector.
• 2006-07-20: "Amazon Sees Soy As the Enemy," Associated Press - Michael Astor examines the threat of Cargill's soy operations in the Amazon.
• 2006-07-01: "How Animal Agriculture Contributes to Global Warming," Sierra Club
• 2006-04-01: "Eating up the Amazon," Greenpeace International - This report examines the soy crisis through the example of two key global players: Cargill and McDonald’s.
• 2006-03-01: "Diet, Energy and Global Warming," Earth Interactions - Gidon Eshel and Pam Martin of University Chicago examine greenhouse gas emissions associated with plant- and animal-based diets.They find that switching from the standard American diet to a plant-based one could result in preventing an extra ton and half of greenhouse emissions per person per year. By contrast, switching from a standard sedan like a Toyota Camry to a hybrid Toyota Prius saves about one ton of CO2 emissions.
• 2006-03-01: "Divining Destiny," Circle of Blue - Pig Farms are one big source of water pollution in Mexico
• 2006-02-02: "Industrial Livestock Production Near Cities Often Damages the Environment," UNFAO
• 2006-01-26: "Debate: Are Beasts a Burden to the Environment?" New Agriculturist
• 2005-08-01: "A New Global Warming Strategy: How Environmentalists Are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in Our Lifetimes," EarthSave
• 2005: "World Soybean Production," Centrec - Animated graphic showing world soybean production over time.
• 2004-07-01: "Is Meat Sustainable?," World Watch magazine - "Now, It's not personal, but like it or not, meat-eating is becoming a problem for everyone on the planet."
• 2002-12-17: "U.S. Sets New Farm-Animal Pollution Curbs," New York Times
• 2002-01-14: "The Case against Meat," E magazine - Cover story that asks the question: "So you're an environmentalist: Why are you still eating meat?"
• 2000-08-19: "How to Poison a River," New York Times - Explores how mega-dairies in New York are polluting Black River.
• 1999-11-08: "Will We Still Eat Meat?," Time - Ed Ayres examines what mass production of meat is doing to our health and the planet.

Factory Farming: Globalization

• 2008-04-21: "China's Growing Thirst for Milk Hits Global Market," NPR
• 2008-03-27: "The Business of Murder: Factory Farming and the Meat Industry in India," The Island Online
• 2008-01-14: "The Cattle Realm- A New Phase in the Livestock Colonization of Brazilian Amazonia," Amigos de Terra - Examining the impacts of cattle ranching in Brazil. (English Summary)
• 2008-01-14: "O Reino Do Gado: Uma Nova Fase Na Pecuarizacao da Amazonia Brasileira," Amigos de Terra - Examines the impacts of cattle ranching in Brazil. (Portuguese Document)
• 2008-01: "Contract Farming in the World's Poultry Industry," GRAIN
• 2008-01: "Livestock Breeding In the Hands of Corporations," GRAIN
• 2008: "Inside the Indian Dairy Industry: A Report on the Abuse of Cows and Buffaloes Exploited for Milk," PETA India
• 2007-12-02: "World Meat Up 1% in 2007; Brazil Main Beef Exporter," Merco Press
• 2007-09-04: "A Thirst for Milk Bred by New Wealth Sends Prices Soaring," New York Times - Examines the rise of global milk prices.
• 2007-08-16: "Virus Spreading Alarm and Pig Disease in China," New York Times
• 2007-02-28: "Environmental Health China's Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations," Wilson Center
• 2007: "Environmental and Food Safety Concerns of China's Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry," Wilson Center
• 2006-12-12: "China Needs a New Type of Livestock Revolution," World Watch magazine
• 2006-11-01: "Brazil's Booming Agriculture Faces Obstacles," Amber Waves
• 2006-11-01: "The Rise of the Global Meat Industry," Satya - Interview with Danielle Nierenberg of the Worldwatch Institute.
• 2006-09-25: "Talk Possible Solutions to Smell from Pig Farms Near a Dominican Airport," Dominican Today
• 2006-05-18: "KFC frying the Amazon as violence erupts," Greenpeace
• 2006: "An Assessment of Husbandry, Slaughter, Transport and Health Hazards to Humans in the Indian Chicken Meat and Egg Supply Chain," PETA India
• 2006: Policy Brief No.3. "Cattle Ranching and Deforestation," UNFAO
• 2006: "Thai Curry Favor with Poultry Industry," Bird Flu - Excerpt from Dr. Michael Greger's Bird Flu, A Virus of Our Own Hatching
• 2005-12-05: "Globalized Factory Farms a Major Threat to Public Health and Environment," Science magazine
• 2005-12-03: "China's Rapidly Growing Meat Demand: A Domestic or an International Challenge?," Center for World Food Studies
• 2005-11-14: "Factory Farming Is Unnatural, Unsustainable and Dangerous," Taipei Times - Peter Singer illustrates critical issues regarding commercial chicken and egg production.
• 2005-09-28: "Factory Farms Churn Out Pollution and Disease," Inter Press Service News Agency
• 2005-09-28: "Towards Happier Meals in a Globalized World," WorldWatch Institute Paper - Addressing the effects of factory farming on the environment, human health, and communities.
• 2005-02-18: "China's Huge Meat Appetite," Wall Street Journal
• 2005-01: "COK Talks with Mia MacDonald," Compassion over Killing
• 2005: "The Facts About Our Food: Animal Transport," WSPA - World Farmwatch leaflet.
• 2005: Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Ten Speed Press - Photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Alusio visit 30 families in 24 countries capturing what they eat during the course of one week.
• 2005: Policy Brief No.1. "Responding to the 'Livestock Revolution': The Case for Livestock Public Policies," UNFAO
• 2005: Policy Brief No.2. "Pollution from Industrialized Livestock Production," UNFAO
• 2004-12-14: "Amazon Cattle Plan Draws Fire from Environmentalists," Telegraph - Environmentalists express alarm regarding proposed World Bank-funded cattle project in Brazilian Amazon.
• 2004-12-14: "South America Seeks to Fill the World's Table," New York Times - "The agricultural bonanza is aided in part by avian flu in Asia and mad cow disease in Europe."
• 2004-11-01: "Roar of the Dragon: The Asian Upside for U.S. Agriculture Commentary on the Rural Economy," AgDM - Explores India's and China's market for U.S. agriculture products
• 2004-06-03: "'Meat' Brazil, International Trade Report," USDA
• 2004-06-01: "Brazilian Meat Production," The Pig Site
• 2004-06: "Managing the Soy Boom: Two Scenarios of Soy Production in South America," WWF
• 2004-03-20: "Factory Farming: The Contagion of Free Trade," Centre for Research on Globalization - Vandana Shiva discusses how the true costs of factory farming are externalized.
• 2004: "The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat," CIWF - Coincides with CIWF's "Eat Less Meat" Campaign.
• 2003-05-01: "Factory Farming in the Developing World," World Watch magazine - Danielle Nierenberg examines concerns regarding the increase in global meat production.
• 2003: "Europe's Long Distance Transport of Live Animals: Cruel and Unnecessary," CIWF - Discusses the transport of live animals across Europe.
• 2002: "The Detrimental Impacts of Industrial Animal Agriculture," CIWF - Report that presents case for humane and sustainable agriculture.
• 2002: "WTO: The Greatest Threat Facing Animal Protection Today," CIWF - Examines how free-trade rules impact animal welfare.
• 2001: "World Egg and Poultry Meat Production, Trade and Supply: Present and the Future," UNFAO
• 2000-04-01: "Spotlight 2005: Globalization and Livestock," UNFAO
• 2000-01-01: "Factory Farming and the Developing World," CIWF
• 2000: "The 'Livestock Revolution': Development or Destruction?," CIWF
• 1999-11-01: "Food and Food Security: The Implications of Current Trade Negotiations," Friends of the Earth - Part of the Seattle Series Briefing.

Factory Farming: Poverty and Food Security

• 2008-05-11: "World's Giants to Alter Food Equation," Chicago Tribune
• 2008-04-21: "Food Riots Begin: Will You Go Vegetarian?" Wired Science
• 2008-03-28: "Only a Radical Change of Diet Can Halt Looming Food Crises," UK Guardian
• 2007-12-18: "The Price of Growing Fuel," New York Times
• 2007-12-12: "Food vs. Fuel," Washington Post
• 2007-12-06: "Cheap No More," The Economist
• 2007-12-04: "Riots and Hunger Feared As Demand for Grain Sends Food Costs Soaring," Guardian
• 2007-07-15: "UN Warns It Cannot Afford to Feed the World," Financial Times - Animal feed and biofuel demand are soaking up grain production.
• 2007: "Industrial Animal Agriculture: Part of the Poverty Problem," WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals documents impact of factory farming with respect to hunger and poverty.
• 2004-11-24: "Can the Planet Feed Us?" BBC - Explores "challenge of feeding the world without destroying the planet."
• 2004-08-16: "Hungry World 'Must Eat Less Meat,'" BBC
• 2002: "Food Security and the Environment," UNFAO - World Food Summit Factsheet
• 2002: "Water and Food Security," UNFAO - World Food Summit Factsheet

Factory Farming: Public Health

• 2008-03-10: "Fresh Bird Flu Outbreak in India," BBC
• 2008-02-18: "Largest Recall of Ground Beef Is Ordered," New York Times
• 2008-01-28: "India Bird Flu Disease Alarming," BBC
• 2008: Bird Flu Resource Page, GRAIN
• 2007-12-16: "Our Decrepit Food Factories," New York Times - Michael Pollan warns the public health risks associated with our industrial agriculture practices.
• 2007-12-06: "Meat Processors Look for Ways to Keep Ground Beef Safe," New York Times
• 2007-11-01: "General Mills Frozen Pizza Recall," Reuters - E. coli contamination of pepperoni pizza
• 2007-10-06: "After Extensive Beef Recall, Topps Goes Out of Business," New York Times
• 2007-09-18: "Antibiotic Runoff," New York Times
• 2007-09-17: "Dramatic Changes in Global Meat Production Could Increase Risk of Diseases," UNFAO
• 2007-08-28: "Hazard: High-Fat Diet Raises Risk of Colon Cancer Return," New York Times
• 2007-08-23: "Poultry Farming Must Be Re-examined," Earthtimes - WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan links emerging diseases with livestock production.
• 2007-06-01: "Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks," Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and UNFAO - Exploration of links between livestock production and emergence of influenza virus strains.
• 2007-05-01: "Modern Milk," Harvard magazine
• 2006-10-13: "Source of Deadly E. Coli Is Found," New York Times
• 2006-09-21: "Leafy Green Sewage," New York Times - Why beef and dairy operations are to blame for E. Coli in spinach
• 2006-08-16: "China Warned over Rising Obesity," BBC
• 2006-08-15: "Overweight 'Top World's Hungry'," BBC
• 2006-02-22: "Flying in the Face of Nature," Guardian - Examines role of animal farming in spreading new diseases
• 2006-02-01: "Fowl play: The Poultry Industry's Central Role in the Bird Flu Crisis," GRAIN
• 2005-11-27: "Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit Bonanza for US Agribusiness," Global Research
• 2005-07-29: "Citing Human Threat, U.S. Bans a Poultry Drug," AP
• 2005-06-15: "Big Study Links Red Meat Diet to Cancer," The Guardian
• 2005-03-17: "Children's Life Expectancy Being Cut Short by Obesity," New York Times
• 2005-03-15: "International Obesity Task Force EU Platform Briefing Paper," IOTF - Study reveals one in 10 schoolchildren are overweight.
• 2005-01-02: "Heavy Questions," New York Times magazine
• 2004-12-07: "Thai Chicken Farms Are Front Line for Bird Flu Fight," NPR
• 2004-09-20: "Editorial Observer: The Whole Cow and Nothing but the Whole Cow," New York Times
• 2004-08-05: "Q&A: vCJD numbers," BBC
• 2004: "Industrial Animal Agriculture: The Next Global Health Crisis?," WSPA
• 2004: "Mad Cow Disease: Are Americans at Risk?," Friends of the Earth
• 2003-04-01: "Vegan Restaurants Are Thriving in the Black Community," Newsday
• 2003-01-15: "Unhappy Meals," Mother Jones - The problem with school lunches
• 2001-09-06: "vCJD Cases on the Increase," BBC
• 1999-11-08: "Will We Keep Getting Fatter?," Time

Factory Farming: Social Justice

• 2007-12-07: "Minn. Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill," AP - Slaughterhouse workers at Quality Pork Processors Inc. are developing neurological disorders.
• 2007-10-12: "Crackdown Upends Slaughterhouse's Work Force," New York Times - Immigration officials crackdown on Smithfield Foods.
• 2007-10-10: "U.S. Seeks Rules to Allow Increase in Guest Workers," New York Times - Explores immigration rules and farm worker and poultry processing labor issues.
• 2006-10: "Farm Fallacy," Satya - Interview with Eric Nicholson of the United Farm Workers' Three-mile Canyon Campaign.
• 2006-09-14: "Chicken Factory Workers No Better than 'Battery' Hens," Daily Mail - Documents inside the Jilin Deda factory in China, one of the world's largest poultry-processing plants.

Factory Farming: Organizations and Campaigns

• Compassion in World Farming-Investigation Footage
• Compassion over Killing-Investigations
• East Bay Animal Advocates-Investigations and Campaigns - An Inside look at California's animal agriculture industry.
• FactoryFarm.org
• Farm Animal Reform Movement
• Farm Sanctuary-Research Reports
• Food and Water Watch - Map of Factory Farming in the U.S.
• Global Resource Action Center for the Environment - Factory Farm Project
• HSUS-Factory Farm Campaigns
• Mercy For Animals-Undercover Investigations
• The PB&J Campaign - Helping the environment one lunch at a time.