Further Reading

Threatening our Health

• The role of factory farming in the cause and spread of swine flu influenza (CIWF, 2009)

• Questions and answers around MRSA in pigs (Pig Progress, 2008)

• MRSA in farm animals and meat (Soil Association, 2007)
  A new threat to human health

• Food safety consequences of factory farms (Food & Water Watch, 2007)

• Safety and Health Conditions at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel Plant (Research Associates of America, 2007)

• Industrial animal agriculture (WSPA, 2005)
  The next global health crisis?

• Health effects of breathing air near CAFOs for feeder cattle or hogs (Von Essen, Sussana G., and Auvermann, Brent W. Journal of Agromedicine. Vol. 10 (4). 2005)

• Airborne multi-drug resistant bacteria isolated from a concentrated swine feeding operation (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, November, 2004)

• Organic farming, food quality and human health (Soil Association)
  A review of the evidence

Polluting the Environment

• Feeding the animals that feed us (Soil Association, 2010)

• What’s feeding our food? (Friends of the Earth, 2008)
  The environment and social impacts of the livestock sector

• Hoofprints (Friends of the Earth, 2008)
  Livestock and its environmental impacts

• Global Warming: Climate Change & Farm Animal Welfare (CIWF, 2008)

• Briefing Food and Climate Change (Friends of the Earth, 2007)

• Livestock’s long shadow (FAO, 2006)
  Environmental issues and options

• Eating up the Amazon (Greenpeace, 2006)

• Eating our future (WSPA)
  The environmental impact of industrial animal agriculture

• Concentrating on Clean Water (Carol Hodne, The Iowa Policy Project, April 2005)
  The challenge of concentrated animal feeding operations

• Cesspools of shame (NRDC, 2001)
  How factory farm lagoons and spray-fields threaten environmental and public health

Wrecking Rural Communities

• Old MacDonald HAD a farm (Soil Association & WSPA, 2011)
  The possibility impact of proposed mega dairies and massive pig factories on the small family farm

• The trouble with Smithfield (Food & Water Watch, 2008)
  A corporate profile

• Corporate power in livestock production (Levelling the field, 2006)
  How it’s hurting farmers, consumer and communities – and what we can do about it

• Bringing home the bacon? (Kerr Centre for Sustainable Agriculture)
  The myth of the role of corporate hog farming in rural revitalization

• Contract agreement — Hog farm
  A sample hog contract grower agreement. More and more independent farmers are signing similar contracts with large corporations in order to survive in the business.

• A share in the harvest (Soil Association)
  A feasibility study for Community Supported Agriculture

Abusing Animals

• Undercover at Smithfield Foods (Humane Society, 2010)

• Pig farming in the EU (CIWF, 2009)
  Briefing

• Pig welfare (CIWF, 2008)
  Towards shared priorities for the future

• Adverse impact of industrial agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals (CIWF, 2006)

• Animals and people first (WSPA, 2005)

• Beyond cruelty. Beyond reason. (WSPA, 2005)
  Long distance transport and welfare of farm animals

Multiple Subjects

• Feeding China’s Pigs (IATP, 2011)
  Implications for the Environment, China’s Smallholder Farmers and Food Security

• Meat Eater Guide to Climate Change + Health (Environmental Working Group, 2011)

• Crisis in the pig-rearing industry: it’s not that there are too many producers, it’s just that there’s too many pigs! (European Coordination Via Campesina Press Release, 2011)
  Proposals for a new European pig-rearing policy

• Factory farming’s hidden impacts (Friends of the Earth, 2010)

• Factory farm nation (Food & Water Watch, 2010)
  How America turned its livestock farms into factories

• Food Futures (Soil Association, 2009)
  Strategies for resilient food and farming

• Turning farms into factories (Food & Water Watch, 2007)
  How the concentration of animal agriculture threatens human health, the environment and rural communities

• Environmental and health problems in livestock production (Levelling the field, 2007)
  Pollution in the food system

• Community Health and Socio-economic Issues Surrounds CAFOs (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007)

Other

• Telling porkies (Soil Association, 2011)
  The big fat lie about doubling food production

• Beyond Factory Farming (CIWF, 2009)
  Sustainable solutions for animals, people and the planet

• Industrial Animal Agriculture (WSPA, 2007)
  Part of the Poverty Problem

• Tabled labels (Public Citizen, 2007)
  Consumers eat blind while congress feasts on campaign cash

• Supermarkets and farm animal welfare (CIWF, 2007)
  Raising the standard

Film & Book

• CAFO (Book, 2010)
  The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories

• The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat (Book)

• Food Matters (Book)
  A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

• Righteous Porkchop (Book)
  Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

• Food, Inc. (Film & Book, 2009)
  Hungry for change