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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. Mark Ibekwe 1,*, Menu Leddy 2, Shelton E. Murinda 3 Introduction Traditionally, fecal indicator bacteria are used as indicators of pathogen levels of water bodies in many localities [1], instead of...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Problem The environmental and humanitarian problems associated with industrial livestock operations are causing growing concern. Factory farms have largely replaced traditional family farms; over the past 15...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, the phrase "animal husbandry" has become more ironic than referential. (2) The care and upkeep of animals raised for human consumption has devolved into an industrial...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAerosols have been suspected to transport food pathogens and contaminate fruits and vegetables grown in close proximity to concentrated animal feeding operations, but studies are lacking that substantiate such...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSocial change campaigns often entail raising awareness of harm caused by people's behavior. For example, campaigns to reduce meat eating frequently highlight the suffering endured by animals. Such messages may...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis review article analyzes Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (2018) by Traer Scott. Radiant is a collection of photographs and profiles of individual farmed animals, such as cows, pigs, and turkeys. The...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe're no different from any other business. These animal rights people like to accuse us of mistreating our stock, but we believe we can be most efficient by not being emotional. We are a business, not a humane society,...
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From:Journal of Environmental and Public Health (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedSwine production has changed dramatically, and in the United States production often takes place in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Because of the size and density of these types of facilities, workers...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCattle, unlike humans, do not have the luxury of flushing their waste down the toilet into elaborate treatment systems. But livestock producers have various ways of protecting the environment from cattle waste, and one...
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From:Journal of Environmental and Public Health (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedThe residents of southeastern North Carolina (NC) are exposed to multiple socioeconomic and environmental risk factors and have higher mortality rates for a number of diseases. Uterine cancer mortality is known to vary...
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From:Comparative Economic Studies (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAccess to agricultural credit is analysed using logit regression for a sample of corporate farms included in the 2003 BASIS survey. As is normal in market economies, more profitable farms have a higher probability of...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 51, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn the heart of America's beef cattle feedlots, in Bushland, Texas, sits an unusual experimental feedlot. It is one of a very few built to study the environmental effects of feedlots--as well as animal performance....
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From:Comparative Economic Studies (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRussian farms are classified into large and small agricultural businesses depending on both their volume of operations and organisational form. The article examines the development of these two groups of farms during...
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From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe describe the University of Colorado mobile Solar Occultation Flux instrument (CU mobile SOF). The instrument consists of a digital mobile solar tracker that is coupled to a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) of...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI examine how the use of moral language is tactically employed by the meat-eating industry to exploit and manipulate the moral community. In particular, I discuss the treatment of the word humane in the context of...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDuring the past four decades, four questions have shaped the debate over eating meat: (1) What hurts the most? (2) Are animal lovers nature haters? (3) Are vegetarians bigots? (4) Do animals have rights? The following...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChanging Conditions for Pastoral Husbandry in Southwest China: 2000-2015. Gregory Veeck and Charles Emerson, Western Michigan University; Zhou Li and Fawen Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences China's husbandry...
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From:Journal of Animal Ethics (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the cultural and philosophical foundations of factory farming. Modes of capitalist production play a role: Marx's analysis of the fourfold alienation of labor can be applied to animal-laborers....
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedForty-seven years ago, in 1975, Peter Singer published Animal Liberation, the book largely responsible for initiating the animal rights movement. On a theoretical level, Singer argued that the interests of sentient...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe question, truly, is how does someone become a piece of meat? And the answer is, we really don't want to know. --Carol J. Adams, The Pornography of Meat (1) It's a bizarre sight to enter a slaughterhouse where...