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Featured ResourcesAntibiotic Overuse in Animals  UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Livestock's long shadow: Environmental issues and options. 390 pg. report.
 The Meatrix is a series of online animations that spoof The Matrix movies while educating viewers about the problems with factory farming and today's meat and dairy supplies.
 Fast Food Nation - The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Featured Organizations Corporate Agribusiness Research Project is a public interest project reinstituted in 1996, and seeks to provide a central, accurate and in-depth source of information on corporate agribusiness's economic, social and environmental impacts on family farmers, rural communities, ecosystems and consumers.
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Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger
Did You Know?
There are 1.5 billion cattle in the world.
In the past year, there was 1 cow for every 3 Americans.
Livestock (Cattle Ranching) is the #1 cause of deforestation in Latin America and the 2nd greatest human-induced cause of CO2 behind fossil fuels (approximately 9%). According to the U.N's FAO report: global meat production is estimated to double by 2050. The world's cattle herds give off more greenhouse gasses than ALL the "planes and other forms of transport put together." (18% versus 13.5% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents). Related WiserEarth Portals
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FrankenSteer (45 min.) is a disturbing documentary that reveals how the cow has been turned into an antibiotic-dependent, hormone-laced potential carrier of toxic bacteria, all in the name of cheaper food. Frankensteer exposes the harsh and sometimes frightening realities of how our beef gets to our tables. |
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globalization, beef, trade, developing nations, grain-fed cattle, feedlots, bovine growth hormones, bovine antibiotics, land conversion, rangelands, pasture, leather industry, subsidies, multinationals, agribusiness, global beef industry, meat
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