Stories
Find out how the CLF is engaged in positive food systems change.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Jackson touts 50-year plan to ‘perennialize’ landscape
Wes Jackson's mission is to reinvent agriculture by replacing annual monoculture grains with perennial polycultures.
Food Animal Production
New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s Share of Antibiotics
Of the antibiotics sold in 2009 for both people and food animals almost 80% were reserved for livestock and poultry.
Seafood & the Food System
Maryland public hearing on proposed oyster policy draws a crowd
Questions about the plan to increase oyster sanctuaries from 9% to 25% of remaining oyster beds drew sharp criticism.
Food Animal Production
“Animal Factory” Book Tour Stops at JHSPH
Author David Kirby visisted CLF to discuss his latest book.
Food Animal Production
CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 to ban arsenic from poultry feed
Roxarsone is transformed into inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen.
Food Animal Production
What is a family farm?
A Congressional staffer took issue with Steve Wing’s statement that many family farms are disappearing.
Food Animal Production
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals
Foer discusses the link between factory farms and the H1N1 outbreak.
Protein 101: Dispelling the Myth Surrounding Meatless Meals
It is disappointing to see members of the media spread misinformation due to their own ignorance, gullibility, or, worse, disinterest in
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Public Health & Industrial Farm Animal Production: Setting the Record Straight
The Commission concluded that the scientific evidence was too strong and the public health risk too great to ignore and offered a series of consensus recommendations on how to repair our unsafe food animal production system.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
How Much Does U.S. Livestock Production Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
The vast majority of the grains we grow in the U.S. go to feed livestock.