Comments on: Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us From Factory Farming https://modernfarmer.com/2024/10/transfarmation-book/ Farm. Food. Life. Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.3 By: Cheri Scandalis https://modernfarmer.com/2024/10/transfarmation-book/#comment-77226 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:20:17 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=165688#comment-77226 We are an animal sanctuary and rescue in Inland Northwest/Washington.
We would like to start a volunteer run mushroom farm at our sanctuaries to support the care of rescued animals.

]]> By: Bud Wylie https://modernfarmer.com/2024/10/transfarmation-book/#comment-76109 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:48:42 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=165688#comment-76109 Fro. a perspective of someone interested in sustainability that has spent a career in agriculture, if you really want to solve this, you have to reverse engineer the industrial revolution. US Agriculture accounts for 1 1/2% of the population, the other 98.5% are glad to go to grocery stores and keep their hands clean working 40 hours a week.

If you look back at late 1800s/early 1900s when majority of population lived in rural settings, there were no CAFOs. With decrease in labor, there has been consolidation of all agriculture. Desire for high protein diets that have made longer lifespans for larger people required large animal production systems.

I am very much a fan of dispersed production but our population is significantly larger and generally would not currently have the skill set to feed themselves, solve that and CAFOs go away.

]]> By: Wilmer Penner https://modernfarmer.com/2024/10/transfarmation-book/#comment-76107 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:44:58 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=165688#comment-76107 I know many individuals that own so called factory farms. Most are raising chickens, some have turkeys. There are a few that it didn’t work out for, most made a good living doing it, and at the same time built a lot of equity in land and improvements. This is a very biased article.

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