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Tom Philpott of Mother Jones had a great post earlier this week looking at the vast environmental damage caused by shrimp farming in South and Southeast Asia. He takes off from a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by J. Boone Kauffman of Oregon State University, which [...]
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by Tom Philpott. I’m always writing about the stunning concentration of the U.S. livestock industry—the way just a handful of companies (see here and here) produce the great bulk of the meat, dairy, and eggs consumed by Americans. B... Read Post

By Tom Philpott Back in 2006, a Los Angeles developer, Ralph Hurwitz, bull-dozed a highly productive 13-acre farm in the city's South Central neighborhood. In its place, he intends to plunk down a vast warehouse designed to move goo... Read Post

by Tom Philpott. Animals in factory farms get daily doses of antibiotics, both to keep them alive in their stressful, unsanitary conditions and to make them grow faster. What’s the annual volume of antibiotic use on factory farms? T... Read Post