- For further information, we highly recommend watching “Eating Mercifully” by the Humane Society Faith Outreach.
It is a great resource for Christians about factory farming and the food we eat.
Watch the trailer and order your free copy on their website:
http://www.humanesociety.org/about/departments/faith/tips/eating_mercifully_resources.html
- Although the focus of this section is the welfare of animals, we consider GMOs and what you eat very important.
Check out Food Babe, an awesome resource for learning more about what we eat and making better eating choices:
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Farm Animal Welfare - The Humane Society
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/publications/whitepapers/farm_animal_welfare.html
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Genetically Modified Foods
http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html
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Average Annual Per Capita Consumption of Meat
http://www.beefusa.org/CMDocs/BeefUSA/Resources/Statistics/annualpercapitaconsumption-meat-boneless491.pdf
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Factory Farming in America - The Humane Society
http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/farm/hsus-factory-farming-in-america-the-true-cost-of-animal-agribusiness.pdf
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Hogging the Market: How Powerful Meat Packers are Changing our Food System and What We can do About it
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/AAI_Issue_Brief_4.pdf
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Factory Farms: Taxpayers Pay, Politicians Take, Agribusiness Profits - Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28489.cfm
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Undercover Investigation Documents Pig Abuse at Tyson Supplier
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/wyoming_pig_investigation_050812.html#id=album-142&num=content-2668
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Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/09/monsanto-roundup-herbicide.aspx
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Oceans: Turning the tides – Environmental Defense Fund
http://www.edf.org/oceans
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Ocean Issues - Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
http://www.seafoodwatch.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/issues/default.aspx
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How Much Wild Fish Is There In Fish Farming Feed?
http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/1092/how-much-wild-fish-is-there-in-fish-farming-feed
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The Economics of Japanese Whaling - A COLLAPSING INDUSTRY BURDENS TAXPAYERS - The International Fund for Animal Welfare
http://www.ifaw.org/sites/default/files/economics-of-japanese-whaling-japan-ifaw.pdf
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Gordon Ramsey: Shark Bait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAkq6lsnoE
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Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
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Food Labeling for Dummies - Animal Welfare Approved
http://animalwelfareapproved.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Food-Labelling-for-Dummies-screen-v9-041013.pdf
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NATIONAL CHICKEN COUNCIL ANIMAL WELFARE GUIDELINES
http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/NCC-Animal-Welfare-Guidelines-2010-Revision-BROILERS.pdf
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Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf