World Watch Magazine Online Discussion: The Globalization of Factory Farming

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World Watch Magazine Online Discussion: The

Globalization of Factory Farming

 

Friday, May 2, 2003. 2 PM -- 3 PM EDT (1800 - 1900

GMT)

 

Large-scale expansion of factory farming into

developing countries such as Mexico, India, China, and

the Philippines is bringing unanticipated dangers to

environmental and human health, writes Danielle

Nierenberg in the May/June 2003 edition of the

bi-monthly magazine World Watch. While increasing the

production of meat, these mass-producing facilities

threaten the survival of indigenous livestock and are

contributing to groundwater pollution, the spread of

food-borne illnesses, and antibiotic resistance. In

the Philippines, annual production of poultry has

increased five-fold since 1980. This industrialization

of livestock production has nearly wiped out the stock

of native Filipino chickens and forced most family

farmers out of business or into adopting factory

farming methods themselves.

 

Join Danielle Nierenberg, who just returned from the

Philippines, to discuss why international regulations

on factory farming and an improved process of zoning

farms are only part of the solution.

 

Questions for this chat may be submitted starting on

May 1, 2003, at 2 PM EDT (18:00 GMT). For more

information about this webchat or other online

discussions, visit us on the web at

http://www.worldwatch.org/live/.

 

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.. To read Danielle Nierenberg's article about this

topic, please visit

http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/2003/163/.

 

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