Features Archive

Ohio

ben.goldsmith — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:02:22 -0500

Update (July 1, 2010): Just a few months after a Farm Forward joined a broad coalition of groups working toward the passage of a ballot initiative in Ohio that would ban some of the cruelest practices in industrial agriculture, hundreds of thousands of signatures—more than enough to ensure that the measure would reach voters—were gathered and

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Heritage

prattwebdesign — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:15:16 -0500
Any third-grader will tell you that the best way to draw a turkey if you are in a hurry is to trace an outline of your hand, add eyes and a beak at the tip of the thumb, and sketch a pair of legs onto the base of the palm. But what’s surprising about this exercise is that virtually none of the turkeys on American farms look even remotely similar to the birds that are represented, with varying degrees of artistry, by millions of little elementary school hands every November.
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Keeping Kosher

ben.goldsmith — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:13:16 -0500

UPDATE (June 23, 2010): Roughly a month after the release of PETA's undercover investigation, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger announced that starting in 2011 he will no longer certify as kosher animals killed in slaughterhouses that use the widely condemned "shackle and hoist" slaughter method. Today roughly 80% of Israel's kosher meat imports come from South American slaughterhouses that use shackle and hoist. The same slaughterhouses presently supply the majority of America's kosher beef as well.

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Eating Animals

ben.goldsmith — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:06:37 -0600

Farm Forward Board Member and New York Times Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer released his third book, Eating Animals, today. Foer’s first work of non-fiction is part memoir, part modern muckracking and the most important book on animal agriculture in decades. We say the most important because no other honest account of animal agriculture has ever addressed the issue on so many levels—something we believe is essential to creating lasting change.

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Antibiotics and Agribusiness

ben.goldsmith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:06:37 -0600

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists a staggering 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics are fed to farm animals in the U.S. annually,13.5 million pounds of which would already be illegal in the EU because of the risk they pose to public health."Hogging It! Estimates of Antimicrobial Abuse in Livestock," Union of Concerned Scientists, 2001 (accessed Feb.

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Thanksgiving

ben.goldsmith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:05:37 -0600

What are your Thanksgiving plans? For those of us who oppose the excesses and cruelty of factory farming, the traditional turkey dinner (97.43% of turkeys are produced on factory farms1) is an ill fit with the holiday. Have you found a way to eat according to your conscience this year? We want to know!

1. Farm Forward calculation based on U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007 Census of Agriculture, December 2007.

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Michigan

ben.goldsmith — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:26:32 -0500

While campaigning for "Prop 2" in California late last year, a ballot measure that required the phasing out of some of the most inhumane factory farm methods, Farm Forward declared that the tide of public opinion has turned against intensive confinement farming in a decisive way. Prop 2 is now law and the evidence that Americans are rejecting factory farming has continued to mount.

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Features

ben.goldsmith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:55:09 -0500

Did you know that Farm Forward has a rich features archive full of information about food and farming? You can check out our past features by visiting the archive section, and be sure to check back regularly for some exciting new features that we'll post soon.

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Launch Party

ben.goldsmith — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:21:03 -0600

Alexis Stewart, host of the hit show Whatever, Martha!, kicked off the evening in her Tribeca home with a spectacular spread of vegan hors d'oeuvres and a warm welcome. “There are some things I wish would just go away,” Alexis explained. “One of them is factory farming.” Her friend and Farm Forward board member, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, then took the floor, explaining that before the birth of his son, he too had gone vegetarian—several times.

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Dan Barber

ben.goldsmith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:02:27 -0600

When it comes to changing the way we think about the food we eat, chef Dan Barber believes that we need to combine old-world wisdom with a forward-looking approach. He realizes that how food is grown, where it’s grown, and who’s growing it has changed much more dramatically in the past couple of decades than it has in the past couple of millennia. For this reason, Barber is committed to getting people to stop accepting food without question, and to start assessing the real health and environmental costs that come with our current farming practices and eating habits.

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