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Further Reading

Issue(s) Title Author
Health Case Study of a Health Crisis: How human health is under threat from over-use of antibiotics in intensive livestock farming CIWF/Sustain/Soil Association, 2013
Health Livestock to human MRSA transmission confirmed EMBO molecular medicine, 2013
Environment Climate Chaos: Boycott Genetically Engineered and Factory Farmed Food Organic Consumers Association, 2013
Rural economy The economic cost of food monopolies Food & Water Watch, 2012
Health Pig farm pollution linked to higher blood pressure Environmental Health Perspectives, 2012
Health Living Near Livestock May Increase Risk of Acquiring MRSA Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2012
Health / Animal welfare GM soy linked to health damage in pigs – A Danish dossier GM Watch, 2012
Rural economy Old MacDonald HAD a farm – The possible impact of proposed mega dairies and massive pig factories on the small family farm Soil Association & WSPA, 2011
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Feeding China’s Pigs – Implications for the Environment, China’s Smallholder Farmers and Food Security IATP, 2011
Environment / Health Meat Eater Guide to Climate Change + Health Environmental Working Group, 2011
Rural economy 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, 2011
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Telling porkies – The big fat lie about doubling food productions Soil Association, 2011
Animal welfare Undercover at Smithfield Foods Humane Society, 2010
Environment Feeding the animals that feed us Soil Association, 2010
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Factory farming’s hidden impacts Friends of the Earth, 2010
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Factory farm nation – How America turned its livestock farms into factories Food & Water Watch, 2010
Health The role of factory farming in the cause and spread of swine flu influenza CIWF, 2009
Animal welfare Pig farming in the EU CIWF, 2009
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Food Futures Soil Association, 2009
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Beyond Factory Farming – Sustainable solutions for animals, people and the planet CIWF, 2009
Health Questions and answers around MRSA in pigs Pig Progress, 2008
Environment What’s feeding our food? – The environment and social impacts of the livestock sector Friends of the Earth, 2008
Environment Hoofprints – Livestock and its environmental impacts Friends of the Earth, 2008
Environment Global Warming: Climate Change & Farm Animal Welfare CIWF, 2008
Rural economy The trouble with Smithfield – A corporate profile Food & Water Watch, 2008
Animal welfare Pig welfare CIWF, 2008
Health MRSA in farm animals and meat Soil Association, 2007
Health Food safety consequences of factory farms Food & Water Watch, 2007
Health Safety and Health Conditions at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel Plant Research Associates of America, 2007
Environment Briefing Food and Climate Change Friends of the Earth, 2007
Environment / Health / Animal welfare / Rural economy Turning farms into factories Food & Water Watch, 2007
Animal welfare Industrial Animal Agriculture WSPA, 2007
Environment / Health / Rural economy Environmental and health problems in livestock production Levelling the field, 2007
Environment Livestock’s long shadow FAO, 2006
Rural economy Corporate power in livestock production Levelling the field, 2006
Animal welfare Adverse impact of industrial agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals CIWF, 2006