Touch the Soil News #1840 (Feature Photo – Pig Gestation Crates – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported) In Ezhou, China – a city of 1 million people – a 26 story skyscraper has been built to be a massive pig farm. Plans are to product 1.2 million pigs for market each year. While there is skepticism…
Touch the Soil News #1796 (Feature Photo – Pigs – CCA SA 4.0 International Generic) Farmlandgrab news Muyuan Foodstuff company, is the world’s largest pork grower – producing 5 million pigs a year. Having so many animals in a confinement area, and keeping the areas free of waste and disease, is a high gamble according…
Touch the Soil News #1524 (Feature photo – One of the World’s Largest CAFOs – Public Domain, Benjamin Gisin) Civil Eats brings us an enlightening story about the future of food in general and how meat is grown in specifics. We’ve all heard of the abuses and risks of confinement animal feeding operations – operations…
