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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
The Trojan Hog in the Farm Bill
How the Save Our Bacon Act threatens family farmers and state sovereignty
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CAFOs
February 16, 2026
Why Is California Paying North Carolina Farms to Make Gas From Hog Waste?
A growing biogas pipeline network has already drawn civil rights complaints
Blanca Begert, Inside Climate News
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Culture
September 29, 2025
Farm Aid, at 40, Offers a Lifeline for Farmers Facing Their Worst Crisis in Decades
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Bob Dylan headline a milestone 12-hour benefit concert
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Agriculture
January 22, 2024
How “Right-to-Farm” Laws Betray Farmers, Disenfranchise Voters and Empower Corporations
Proponents say right-to-farm laws protect family farmers. In reality, right-to-farm laws fuel rural poverty by empowering industrial ag and dispossessing local governance
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Agriculture
December 21, 2023
Biogas Boondoggle: Wisconsin’s Clean Energy Dollars Are Spent to Transform Livestock Waste Into “Renewable Natural Gas”
Federal funding for solar panels and wind turbines is being used to greenwash CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations)
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Agriculture
November 29, 2023
‘What We’re Up Against’: North Dakota Towns Stand Up to Farm Bureau for Clean Water
Pelican Township gets dragged into a national campaign to upend local zoning rules.
Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
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