CUI BONO?: New report shoots down myths used by ‘Big Ag’ to make billions
There needs to be accountability for the destruction industrial agriculture is causing. A handful of huge companies simply cannot be allowed to continue making massive profits at the expense of animals, our health, and the very existence of our planet.
CIWF: A new report debunks the myths perpetuated to keep the global factory farming industry alive, and the few multi-national corporations making billions from the systems that are cruel to animals while damaging our health and killing our planet.
Factory Farming: Who Benefits? How a ruinous system is kept afloat – produced by Compassion in World Farming – lays out the seven key input providing sectors benefiting from intensive agriculture and obstructing the reforms needed to switch to higher welfare, health- and climate-friendly farming. While the activities of the big meat-providing companies are well-known, the major ‘input providers’ of factory farming have largely escaped attention.
These big input providers are: the manufacturers of cages and crates; the animal pharmaceuticals sector; the pesticides sector; the big grain traders; animal feed producers; the animal genetics sector; and the fertilisers sector.
The report lays out and dispels the key myths used by ‘big ag’ to frame factory farming as a necessity, helping to perpetuate this destructive industry…
The report’s author and Chief Policy Adviser at Compassion in World Farming, Peter Stevenson, said: “Industrial animal agriculture – factory farming – threatens global food security, causes significant environmental damage, is a key driver of climate change, and is the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet.
“It’s unthinkable that in the face of significant scientific evidence of the destructive impacts of factory farming, we have major industries not only ignoring the evidence and putting profit before animals, people, and planet but also obstructing efforts to transition to sustainable systems that work for us all…
“There needs to be accountability for the destruction industrial agriculture is causing. A handful of huge companies simply cannot be allowed to continue making massive profits at the expense of animals, our health, and the very existence of our planet. Unless we reduce our overconsumption of meat, fish, dairy and eggs and switch to regenerative farming systems that work in harmony with nature, the very future of humanity is at threat”…
Four companies that benefit greatly from factory farming are known as the ABCD companies: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus. These companies are the world’s major grain traders who provide much of the cereals and soy used to feed factory farmed animals…
“We need a Global Agreement on food and farming to transform our food system, before it’s too late, and we would urge anyone who cares about animals and the future of our planet to sign our petition to end factory farming at END.IT.” SOURCE…
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