"#Agricultural runoff provides perfect nutrients for #methanogen growth.
#Fertilizer and animal waste washing into ocean systems creates nutrient-rich zones where these methanogens thrive like never before. #Nitrogen and #phosphorus pollution from farmland creates ideal conditions for explosive #microbial growth in #coastal waters and #DeepOcean areas. These agricultural inputs essentially act as fertilizer for #methane-producing microbes, creating a connection between #IndustrialFarming and atmospheric #GreenhouseGas levels that scientists never fully appreciated.
"Coastal regions near major agricultural areas show the highest concentrations of these supercharged methanogens, with some areas recording methane production levels ten times higher than baseline measurements. The problem compounds itself because areas with intensive farming also tend to have the strongest ocean currents, meaning these fertilized methanogen populations get distributed globally. Every season’s #AgriculturalRunoff creates new opportunities for these microbes to establish thriving colonies in previously stable ocean environments."
#DeepSeaLife #AgriculturalRunoff #BigAg #OceansAreLife #OceanCurrents #OceanMethane
"About 26 billion #chickens occupy Earth, but apart from the lucky ones in backyards, most are condemned to the hellscape that is #industrialFarming."
Ian Frazier reviews #UnderTheHenfluence, #Yardbirds, and #Hatched
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/bang-the-drumstick-slowly-under-the-henfluence-yard-birds/
https://archive.ph/v4Fjl
#farms #factoryFarms #factoryFarming #CAFOs #crueltyToAnimals #BigAg #animalWelfare #poultryIndustry #poultry #backyardChickens #books @bookstodon
Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025
#OpenAccess #BooksAboutFood #Agriculture #FreeBook #IndustrialAg #Fertilizer #BigAg #Agribusiness #IndustrialFarming #Pesticides #SocialCosts #EcologicalCosts
Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters
Featured in 2025 CAFS Social, Book Launch and Awards Ceremony
Details and Tickets: https://foodstudies.info/news-conferences/upcoming-conference/
#CongreSSH #FoodStudies #Toronto #Food #TorontoFoodie #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodPolitics #FoodArt #CAFS2025 #ACEA2025
#OpenAccess #BooksAboutFood #Agriculture #FreeBook #IndustrialAg #Fertilizer #BigAg #Agribusiness #IndustrialFarming #Pesticides #SocialCosts
FOUNDATIONS, EVOLUTIONS, & REVOLUTIONS We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Canadian Association for Food Studies Assembly will be hosted at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario from June 2- June 5, 2025, and will be delivered in conjunction with the Federation for Humanities & Social Sciences Congress (running May 30 to June 6, 2025). The broader theme of
Je découvre avec la crise de la grippe aviaire aux USA que c’est legal pour les éleveurs états-uniens de nourrir leur troupeau avec un mixte qui contient des excréments de volailles…. #GrippeAviaire #BirdFlu #H5N1 #SantePublique #IndustrialFarming
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