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Podcast: Real Organic Podcast
Episode: John Ikerd: Why Animal Confinement Is The Norm
Description: #186: Agricultural economist John Ikerd returns to discuss why the vast majority of meat, milk, and eggs moving through the American food system is sourced from large-scale, industrial feed lots and factory farms. The drive for economic efficiencies that appears sensible when investors are backing the production of widgets has a disastrous effect when animals are involved. Beyond the inexcusable cruelty factor, the savings from economic corner cutting is leading to both environmental and health crises of epic proportions. Why is this happening and how can we change it?John Ikerd is an agricultural economist, livestock expert, and...