Informational Resources
GENERAL INFO
Our Brochure - Information on factory farming and groups working to stop it; in an easily digestible format.
CAFOs in New York State (by county)
PHOTOS OF DESTRUCTION
ACTIVISM RESOURCES
Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
How to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain important records on agribusiness activities in your area.
Media Relations for Activists
The importance of maintaining good relations with the media and some tips on how to do so.
Holding a Media Event
Everything you need to know to hold your first press conference.
Contacting Public Officials
Tips on communicating with elected representatives and other officials.
Checklist for Confronting a CAFO
Everything you need to remember when you take on a local polluter.
BOOKS AND VIDEO RESOURCES
Books and pdf files:
Qualman & Tait: The Farm Crisis, Bigger Farms and the Myths of Competition and Efficiency
Look under the “What’s New� section.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Lovenheim, Peter. Portrait of a Burger As a Young Calf: the Story of One Man, Two Cows and the Feeding of a Nation. Three Rivers Press, 2002.
Sierra Club Rapsheet: Complete Report: The Rapsheet on Animal Factories. (pdf file) Download this excellent overview from the Sierra Club website:
http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/rapsheets/
Beyond Factory Farming: Corporate Hog Barns and the Threat to Public Health, the Environment, and Rural Communities
Edited by Alexander M. Ervin, Cathy Holtslander, Darrin Qualman, and Rick Sawa. Available from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Midkiff,Ken. The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America’s Food Supply. St Martin’s Press, 2004.
Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes the dangers posed by corporate control of agriculture (agribusiness)--to our health, and to the health of the nation's economy, security, and the environment. This book is concise and loaded with facts.
Film and Documentary
As We Sow: a documentary by Jan Weber.
As farmers leave the land in record numbers, contract production, marketing and the associated industrialization of agriculture continue to expand. With the consolidation of food production into fewer and fewer hands, farmers are rapidly becoming obsolete. This intimate documentary about Iowa pig farmers shows us city folk why we should care about where our food comes from and how it's produced, revealing a desperate struggle for land itself — who controls it and how, and at what cost to people and communities, to animals and the environment, and to the very essence of our democracy.
www.aswesow.com
A Cow At My Table: A Feature Documentary about Animals, Meat and Culture.
http://www.goodknights.org/abbott/
Life Behind Bars: The Sad Truth About Factory Farming
www.farmsanctuary.org
Meet Your Meat
http://www.meetyourmeat.com/
My Friends at the Farm: A Farm Sanctuary Cultivating Compassion Video. Suitable for children in grades 3-6. Provides an introduction for young people to the realities of factory farming.
www.farmsanctuary.org
Peaceable Kingdom: A Tribe of Heart Documentary.
Explores the interconnected lifejourneys of farm animals, former farmers, and animal rescuers struggling against an out of control industrial system.
www.TribeofHeart.org
Through Farmers’ Eyes: Impacts of Industrial Agriculture.
A joint project of Public Citizen and Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
www.foodactivist.org
MISCELLANEOUS
The Southview Farm Case
A Giant Step to End Special Treatment Under for Agriculture Under Environmental Laws