Farm Forward implements innovative strategies to promote conscientious food choices, reduce farm animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture.
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Cows and Calves
Cattle are the only farmed animals that typically spend part of their lives unconfined and outdoors. Does that mean cattle raised for beef have the best lives of any farmed animal?
- Are Cowboys Kinder? - Meet the modern cowboys who are transforming cattle welfare—and those who are trying to destroy them.
- The Lives of Cattle - The latest science on the minds of cows.
- Who's Got Beef? - Learn how to find the most humane beef products.
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Pigs
More than 97 percent of America’s hog farmers have been driven out of business, but we’re producing more pork than ever. Genetically engineered pigs raised in intensive confinement have become the industry standard. How did it happen?
- Lassie vs. Babe - Surprising facts about pig intelligence.
- From "Pigmanship" to "Pork-Making by Applied Mathematics" - A brief history of the modern pig.
- Free Range Pigs? - Meet the man who reinvented the way pigs are raised (and find out where you can buy his pork).
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Poultry
Americans eat more than 100 times as much chicken meat as we did a century ago. But the whopping 9 billion chickens we eat each year are genetically engineered, drugged, and sick. What happened?
- Anything Goes - Chickens are the most abused of all farmed animals, and yet they are completely unprotected under US federal law.
- Chicken vs. Chimp - New studies suggest chickens have some intellectual abilities that surpass primates. Is it true?
- Chickens and Turkeys Raised Right - Meet America’s last poultry farmer.
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Sea Animals
Fish factory farms and industrial fishing are emptying our oceans. In some industries, up to 98 percent of the sea animals caught are thrown back, dead, as "bycatch." Can we fish better?
- From Jacques Cousteau to Finding Nemo - What do we really know about the lives of fish?
- Humane Fish? - Is there a humane way to slaughter a fish?
- Empty Ocean - Researchers can now measure the rapidly dropping biomass of ocean life as a whole. What does it mean?
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