Center for a Livable Future (CLF)

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How Industrial Agriculture Has Thwarted Factory Farm Reforms

Christina M. Russo | Yale Environment 360 | November 19, 2013

In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Robert Martin, co-author of a recent study on industrial farm animal production, explains how a powerful and intransigent agriculture lobby has successfully fought off attempts to reduce the harmful environmental and health impacts of mass livestock production. Read More »

Is The US Meat Industry Pushing Us Into A ‘Post-Antibiotic Era’?

Lauren Rothman | Munchies | October 24, 2014

...Big Meat’s rampant use of antibiotics is one of the most worrying aspects of the meat industry, an issue that unites public health advocates, doctors, consumers, and others in shared concern...

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Via Farmworkers, Superbugs Find A Route Away From Drug-Using Farms

Maryn McKenna | WIRED | September 21, 2014

...Some studies have shown that bacteria can move off farms in groundwater, on the feet of flies, and via dust on the wind. What is insufficiently explored—because it is difficult to get large meat-production facilities to cooperate—is whether farm workers themselves are serving as a transport vehicle...

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