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Concentrated animal feeding operation. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year. An animal unit is the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of ...
During the 40 years I, Tom Harkin, served as a representative and senator in the U.S. Congress, I saw up close the transformation of livestock farming from traditional farmer owned and operated ...
Feedlot. A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter. Large beef feedlots are called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in the United States [1] and intensive livestock ...
Brad Wilson, a farmer from Springville, speaks during an Occupy World Food Prize rally at the State Capitol grounds on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Food, Inc. Food, Inc. is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner [1] and narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser. [5][6] It examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.
The CAFO permit was recently released by the DNR, and residents are worried that the local geography, which consists of porous rock, making it easy for contamination to seep into the groundwater ...
Iowa Select Farms is a pork production operation headquartered in Iowa Falls, the largest in Iowa, and the fourth largest in the United States. [1] It grew in the 1970s, was officially founded in 1992 and as of 2023 produced more than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties. [2] Throughout the 1990s there was rural backlash against the ...
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