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Thursday 25th of April 2024

Agribusiness  To live as farmers would have been,  for the acquisitors of these operations, a bewilderingly alien concept, since their holdings were about something else altogether: they were temporary chips in the greater game of capital formation. Joan Didion, Where I Was From, on the familial ancestors of California's “shipper-growers,” many of whom owned tens or hundreds of thousands of acres © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Industry reports and scientific journals provide evidence that each year 139 million chickens don't even make it to slaughter. Their legs collapse under them and, unable to move or reach food and water, they die of thirst or they starve. Or they simply cannot cope with the conditions they are living in, and their hearts give out. Or they die from the stress of being rounded up, thrown into cages, and transported to the slaugher- houses. In one way or another, they suffer to death. Peter Singer, New York Rewview of Books, May 12, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Farming How we treat farm animals today will be seen, I believe, as a defining moral failing of our age. Ezra Klein, New York Times, December 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Outlaw confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and gestation crates, both concentration camps for animals © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit agribusinesses from using fracking wastewater to irrigate crops © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Making money the old-fashioned way Being a family farmer © 2016 Kwiple.com