Animals used to be raised on diversified family farms with other livestock and row crops, but the popular image of Old McDonald's farm doesn't reflect the reality of today's broken food system.
Today, CAFOs predominate: In 2017, three-quarters of the egg-laying hens in America were owned by just 320 farms.
Each averaging about 900,000 birds in annual inventory and 95 percent of American hogs were raised by farms that sold 5,000 hogs in a year.
These corporate farms are new, and they've transformed the American farm economy.
The replacement of family farms with CAFOs has greatly contributed to a decline in rural well-being and opportunity.
Sure, all animal farms stink sometimes, but CAFOs are a special case.
Senator Booker's legislation understands that rural areas are healthier in every sense when ten family farms are raising hogs, instead of one CAFO owned by a foreign corporation, staffed with poorly paid workers.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/multinational-meat-companies-could-be-making-us-sick/
Today, CAFOs predominate: In 2017, three-quarters of the egg-laying hens in America were owned by just 320 farms.
Each averaging about 900,000 birds in annual inventory and 95 percent of American hogs were raised by farms that sold 5,000 hogs in a year.
These corporate farms are new, and they've transformed the American farm economy.
The replacement of family farms with CAFOs has greatly contributed to a decline in rural well-being and opportunity.
Sure, all animal farms stink sometimes, but CAFOs are a special case.
Senator Booker's legislation understands that rural areas are healthier in every sense when ten family farms are raising hogs, instead of one CAFO owned by a foreign corporation, staffed with poorly paid workers.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/multinational-meat-companies-could-be-making-us-sick/
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