Inside Animal Ag
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Where factory farming is taking us - a compendium. The environment, animals, human health, workers, and more. The big picture on big ag - in one place. https://insideanimalag.org/
This is how deadly barn fires can start 🔥 👺Faulty wiring and or heating lamps without any fire detection because that’s too expensive. You can see how worried the incarcerated mothers already are. Animals are trapped. They get burned alive after a shitty life #LiveVegan don’t do this to animals 🙏
Am reminded of James Taylor's wonderful song Gaia - and they lyrics: As if you were your own creation As if you were the chosen nation And the world around you, just a rude and Dangerous invasion
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 6d agoAlienation from nature has made us stupid, entitled and narcissistic. We think and act as if life owed us something while we try to kill all life on Earth for numbing short-term pleasures. In fact, we owe life on Earth the only life we have.
This story of how a Meta data center released bacteria-laden wastewater in Cheyenne, WY is a reminder that we should not only be worried about how much water these facilities are using – but what’s in the water when it’s released back into public systems.
US datacenters face further backlash over wastewater pollution
From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm
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Little chickens born in an evil industry 👺Little chickens find their end in this horrible crash💔 Little chickens, no parents, no natural life. Little chickens 😢Stop supporting the animal industry. #EndAnimalExploitation #LiveVegan save lives 🙏
During drought, bears depend on green refugia along stream corridors and springs, precisely the places most altered by livestock grazing and diversions for agriculture. We’ve spent generations dismantling the refugia that once helped wildlife survive drought.
Bear attacks, conflicts with humans reach historic levels in Colorado
A drought in Colorado has bears searching frantically for food to prepare for winter hibernation.
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Just 2 years ago the Dept of Interior put out a "call to action" to protect wetlands as fundamental to the nation's health & security. This administration is nothing more than a wrecking ball.
Food & Water Watch@foodandwater.bsky.social · last wk.From our own Tarah Heinzen: This proposal allows corporate interests to "fill, drain, and poison sensitive waterways from coast to coast." It's an awful plan and it must be reversed.
Back of the envelope calculation: If we took just the acreage in the U.S. used for animal feed (~175 million), we could feed every American a healthy, sustainable plant-based diet. That includes crop rotation & cover crops.
Herbiⓥore@herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 2w agoAnimal farming doesn’t feed the world. It starves it.
@momscleanairforce.org It's also about what the EPA has NOT done for the past 2 decades. Like regulate ammonia emissions coming from factory farms. Ammonia is a major component in the formation of PM2.5, the largest environmental health risk to humans. insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
Factory Farm Ammonia: The Unrecognized & Unregulated Air Pollutant - Inside Animal Ag
Ammonia is generated by factory farms at levels that regularly exceed the EPA’s “reportable quantities” by 10 to 50 times or more. And yet, these emissions are underestimated, underreported, and large...
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Moms Clean Air Force@momscleanairforce.org · 2w agoFrom AI data centers to chemical incinerators: How new permitting rules attempt to fast-track heavy industrial polluters while cutting out community voices. 😡😡😡 https://www.momscleanairforce.org/what-epa-has-done-june-august-2026/
EPA labels ammonia an “extremely hazardous substance.” Releases >100 lbs. a day require notice to federal and local authorities to protect the public. But in factory farms ammonia is regularly emitted at 10 to 50 times that amount. No reporting required. insideanimalag.org/factory-farm...
Factory Farm Ammonia: The Unrecognized & Unregulated Air Pollutant - Inside Animal Ag
Ammonia is generated by factory farms at levels that regularly exceed the EPA’s “reportable quantities” by 10 to 50 times or more. And yet, these emissions are underestimated, underreported, and large...
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This is a disappointing (and smelly💩) reminder of why we need tougher and more transparent regulations around factory farms.
Sentient@sentientmedia.org · 2w agoA pact between North Carolina and Smithfield Foods “failed miserably.” Those who worked on the agreement explain why. @lisasorg.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org: buff.ly/34SsINg
"Everyone comes to veganism in a slightly different way, and I think we all arrive at the same conclusion." —Marielle Vigneau-Britt New Hen Report ep w/ Totally Forkable on anti-vegan bias & purity culture. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check ourhenhouse.org/ep974
Imagine what we could do with America's cropland if we grew food for humans.
Turribul@turribul.bsky.social · 3w agoStop feeding food to cows that could feed humans #vegan
Great reporting. Folks in Iowa (and across the country) should know why nitrates in water are so heavily concentrated in animal ag states. PS. It's not from growing fruits and veggies. This is fairly old but still the most comprehensive info on the comparison. @ajbeamer.bsky.social
Food & Water Watch@foodandwater.bsky.social · 3w agoDid you know that, as Iowa faces a worsening crisis of nitrate pollution in water, North America's two biggest nitrogen fertilizer companies have seen their profits skyrocket? They are, to quote our own Jennifer Breon, "in the business of pollution," and that's a dirty business.
Interesting that the clean water advocate quoted in the piece points primarily to inadequate sewage systems in Missouri when the state's core agriculture is poultry, cattle, and pigs. Whole lot of fecal pathogens in animal manure.
Lyle Lewis@race2extinct.bsky.social · 3w agoFecological overshoot.
Anti-vegans complain about pesticides in crop production, then continue to eat animals that are: -) fed with crops that are sprayed with the same pesticides -) fed antibiotics -) sometimes even sprayed with pesticides themselves
MarcPieterse@marcpieterse.bsky.social · 3w agoThe incarcerated mother slaves are sprayed with pesticides 👺Their children will be stacked with antibiotics ánd pesticides too. You want to live a compassionate and healthy life? Stop eating tortured animals and their products #LiveVegan make the right choice ✌️
@chasewoodruff.bsky.social Appreciate your coverage of the Colo River crisis. It seems to continue that water depletion, politics, and climate change do not sit well together. No one willing to talk about climate change and the fact that so much water is going to animal feed.
States Newsroom@statesnewsroom.com · 3w agoElected officials from across Colorado’s political spectrum continued a 68-year-old tradition last week when they took to the stage at the annual summer conference of the Colorado Water Congress in Steamboat Springs. via @coloradonewsline.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/what...
According to the Times, the Colo River Upper Basin will not have similar restrictions. And this is where the consumed volume of water going to cattle-feed crops is more than three times what is consumed for municipal, commercial, or industrial uses combined.
Kathy L Weiss@middlechildtake.bsky.social · 4w agoAmerica’s Desert Metropolis Is on the Short List to Lose Water Decades ago, the state won funding for a massive #ColoradoRiver project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
Dr. Stanescu is an inspiring speaker!
Vegan FTA@veganftaofficial.bsky.social · last mo.Author Jordi Casamitjana interviews Dr Vasile Stănescu, a truth-seeking vegan scholar who is fighting for animal liberation in the academic world. ✊🌱 https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/08/15/dr-vasile-stanescu-the-critical-vegan-scholar-championing-truth-and-animal-freedom-in-academia/
En voor wie denkt dat dit soort extreme taferelen ver van het bed is… www.animalstoday.nl/misstanden-i...
Ondanks misstanden nog steeds import van Ierse kalfjes
Uit onderzoek van de NOS blijkt dat de import van jonge kalfjes naar Nederland blijft doorgaat, ondanks misstanden.
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MarcPieterse@marcpieterse.bsky.social · last mo.1/2 Sound on 🔊 #Dairy calf concentration camp #NewMexico #USA 😱👺Listen to this .. even the trucker who made this video is impressed about the scale of this atrocity. Please #DitchDairy TODAY #EndAnimalAgriculture #EndAnimalExploitation #LiveVegan don’t support this cruelty 🌱🙏✌️
Bizarre is almost too weak a word. It's downright crazy! And so unnecessary.
Krasnov 🍃@greennomad61.bsky.social · last mo.Just stop. 🤦🏼♀️ Putting a pig gene into #lettuce is just bizarre and wrong. "Here we show that plants can be engineered to produce the animal protein myoglobin in their chloroplasts" FFS . #BreakYourFleshAddiction Tried .@BeyondMeat, why not ?!?! www.the-independent.com/life-style/f...
Factory farms overuse antibiotics, which can create more dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This new rule doesn’t go far enough and “won’t necessarily lead to changes on farms,” so we’re calling on the FDA to do better. Join us: https://fwwat.ch/4cDUX3k
FDA Finalizes New Way to Assess Risks of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture
Public health advocates say the update is positive but won’t lead to big changes on farms, where routine use of medicall
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All to satisfy global and domestic meat demand. It is a moral issue. Read this excellent piece. insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202...
A Very American Invention, Pushed to an Extreme - Inside Climate News
In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete.
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Great video. And this operation looks like it's on the smaller size in terms of feedlots. How much manure is generated each day? How much methane? Ammonia? Odor?
MarcPieterse@marcpieterse.bsky.social · last mo.1/3 🚨 A concentration camp. A factory for suffering.This isn’t “the heartland” or “ranch life” it’s a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in Kansas, USA. #DitchMeat #AnimalRights #Kansas #USA #VeganForTheAnimals
How many people would run over to help an injured child? Many would, not because it's going to change the world but because it's the right thing to do. We must begin looking at the planet the same way we would that child. insideanimalag.org/the-planetar...
The Planetary Boundaries Framework: A Moral Guide for the Anthropocene - Inside Animal Ag
For those who believe that the health of our Earth and the long-term survival of its inhabitants are in jeopardy, the Planetary Boundary framework may be the new Ten Commandments.
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You're absolutely right. Here is some of the work we've done on soybeans in the U.S. But we calculate by value. By weight, ~77% of all soybean production goes to animal feed.
Yvette Tapptico@yvettetapptico.bsky.social · 2mo agoSoy even more so: deforestation to graze & raise our fellow Earth animals as food is but one part of the entirety of how Animal Ag & meat-egg-dairy-fish eaters are causing destruction of all balances that enable life to freely exist in abundance, 10,000 wildlife extinctions each year.
We analyze the share of corn production in the U.S. going to animal feed. It's growing every year. The USDA should reconsider its mission statement "we are feeding the world" to "we are feeding the world's livestock."
Simon Oldridge@sioldridge.bsky.social · last yr.Miles & miles of maize but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany. Maize is mainly 🐄 feed. Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion. Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
theguardian.com
In the U.S., soybeans are the 2nd largest crop and more than three-quarters go to animal feed. The land use, pesticides, fertilizers, and water consumption are a major threat to biodiversity.
Alexander J. Stein@ajstein.bsky.social · 2mo agoOil crop cultivation—esp. oil palm, coconuts & soybeans—causes #biodiversity loss, with tropical exporters bearing most of the impacts. 20% of overall #oilseeds use is driven by feed use in #meat, dairy & #eggs production; non-food uses are driven by biodiesel: doi.org/10.1038/s430... #trade
Farmers growing cotton and alfalfa - the two thirstiest crops - must be helped to transition to away from these industries. The public must be educated about animal agriculture's use of water and the realistic choices ahead. Cheap meat or water.
Lyle Lewis@race2extinct.bsky.social · 2mo agoA few decades ago, Western water fights were farmers vs endangered species. Now they’re farmers vs towns, data centers, solar projects, and semiconductor plants. I miss the good ol’ days when endangered species were still part of the argument.