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ACTION ALERT: Fight Corporate Concentration in the Livestock Industry
One of our priorities is increasing fairness and decreasing concentration in the livestock industry. Giant corporate meatpackers like Smithfield Foods—which owns 1.2 million sows for example— ... the 2007 Farm Bill that includes some of the items below: • Prohibition on Packer-Owned Livestock: Passed in the U.S. Senate in 2002 but stripped out in conference committee, a ...
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The Florida Panther Society, Inc.
Yellowstone's flora and fauna. And how conservationists finally prevailed in a decade long political struggle with congress, the courts and the powerful livestock industry." SOUL AMONG LIONS - by Harley Shaw, 1989 Johnson Publishing "Cougar, Mountain lion, Puma, Felis concolor. In this highly original book, and Arizona wildlife biologist comes to terms with ...
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E, the Environmental Magazine: Current Issue
By Jessica Rae Patton MORE FROM EMAGAZINE.COM... FOLLOW THE SALESMEN How Industry Insiders Challenged the Car Lobby By Edward McClelland MAKING A LIFE Redefining Success and Rediscovering Joy ... STRIKES BACK By Shawn Query THE MEAT OF THE MATTER Our Livestock Industry Creates More Greenhouse Gas than Transportation Does By Jim Motavalli MEASLES ON THE RISE By Jessica Rae Patton ...
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New Rules Project - Agriculture - Packers and Stockyards Acts
Markets Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) Cattlemens Legal Fund Campaign to Reclaim Rural America The Packers and Stockyards Act passed in 1921 to maintain competition in the livestock industry. The Act contains provisions banning price discrimination, the manipulation of prices, weight manipulation of livestock or carcasses, manipulation of carcass grades, commercial bribery, and ...
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Animal Welfare - Livestock / Production Animals
Today, the livestock industry accounts for around 55% of South Australia's export revenue. Sheep South Australia produces ... include Codes of Practice that define what is generally regarded as acceptable welfare practices for livestock husbandry and transport. Compliance with the Codes of Practice can be used as a defence ...
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Grazing Research - Ecological Impacts of Livestock Grazing
Range Management 49:53-59 Belsky, A.J., and D.M. Blumenthal. 1997. Effects of Livestock Grazing on Stand Dynamics and Soils in Upland Forests of the Interior West. Conservation Biology ... Washington, D.C. Fowler, J.M., D. Rush, and J. Hawkes. 1993. Characteristics of Western Livestock Industry. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State Univsersity, Las Cruces, NM ...
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Taking on Corporate Meatpackers: What we can do to pass the packer ban and take back the livestock markets
The first step is banning meatpackers from owning livestock. ... . Gutknecht (R-MN) have not even said that they support banning corporate meatpacker ownership of livestock. Along with Senator Dayton, all three serve on Congressional ag committees, so it is doubly important ...
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Leopold Center launches new Grass-Based Livestock Working Group
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has made a three-year commitment to support ... professionals to tackle some of the challenges to entering this fast-growing segment of the livestock industry. "We believe that a well-managed system of rotational grazing on perennial pastures can ...
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Leopold Letter: New grass-based livestock group starts work
"We believe that a well-managed system of rotational grazing on perennial pastures can benefit the land, livestock and people in our rural communities," said Leopold Center Director Jerry DeWitt. "We believe that such a system can ...
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Kangaroo Industry Assocn of Australia - Background Info
In fact, the kangaroo industry currently produces about 24,000 tonnes of meat annually and can sustainably yield twice that. ... that it would. For example, the proponents of kangaroo harvesting as a more environmentally friendly livestock production system only ever suggest that this system should be implemented in the arid rangelands. ...
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