The Modern Henhouse
With hen housing debates in full swing and the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of birds at stake, Farm Forward wants you to have the facts about how America’s egg supply is produced.
With hen housing debates in full swing and the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of birds at stake, Farm Forward wants you to have the facts about how America’s egg supply is produced.
A look at the life’s work and deeply profound impact of Bernard “Bernie” E. Rollin, PhD on Farm Forward and the movement. Learn more here.
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Food System SolutionsA huge victory in the fight against industrial agriculture in Ohio. The details of the agreement, and history of it coming in to being through actions of the public and public servants working together are here.
Animal products from slaughterhouses with painful methods and sick animals still somehow manages to keep Kosher? Learn more here.
Farm Forward applauds these changes and especially the trend in agribusiness to sit at the negotiation table. That said, over the course of the next decade more than 6.3 billion laying hens will live and die without basic space requirements. This victory is to be celebrated but not overestimated.
Historical timeline of hog farming and slaughtering, and the regression that took place a century ago that still has its hold on us today.
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Animal WelfareFarm Forward is committed to a simple but revolutionary idea: We can live without factory farming, without intensive confinement operations that devastate our natural resources and contribute more to climate change than any other industry on the planet. Learn more with us here.