January 2009
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Industrial Farming’s Numbers Rise
By Kerri Conan
In this publication by the Economic Research Service of the USDA, we learn that raising livestock in the United States is now almost exclusively industrialized and centralized. In studies performed between 1987 and 2002, researchers found that production from larger farms (when compared to small operations) increased by 60 percent in broilers (chickens), 100 percent in cattle,...
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