Tag: Industrial Agriculture Farms

Hoosiers Are Sick: The Failure of Industrial Agriculture

Post author By Todd Smekens
Post date April 21, 2015

MUNCIE, Indiana BLOG – There has been plenty of news coming from Indianapolis which has placed Indiana in a negative light. Unfortunately, all the negative news provided a smoke screen for another year of poor wellness rankings in Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index and County Health Rankings. Hoosiers lost out because they didn’t learn about our poor […]

Tags CAFO, Canadian Medical Association, County Health Rankings, Eli Lilly, extractive capitalism, Farm Bureau, Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index, Health, Indiana Chamber, industrial agriculture, Industrial Agriculture Farms, Industrial Farming, IUPUI’s Office of Sustainability, John Ikerd, Naomi Klein, Public Health

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Our Food System – CAFO Watch Conference

Post author By Todd Smekens
Post date August 6, 2012

(Photo : John Klein/Ed Steinman/Lighthawk) It’s a Saturday morning in Middletown America and speakers from Maryland, Missouri, Michigan, and Illinois converge into a medium sized conference center to speak in front of a diverse group of attendees from around age 18 to 80 years of age. What kind of speakers would draw such a large […]

Tags Environment Protection Agency, Indiana CAFO Watch, Industrial Agriculture Farms