ApocaDocs: Markets emerging for old-fashioned farming, ranching

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Posted Sun Jun 8 2008: from AP, via Abilene Reporter-News:


	Markets emerging for old-fashioned farming, ranching http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1212937624 A recent study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that intensive industrial livestock production has yielded antibiotic-resistant bacteria, degraded the environment and devastated rural communities by replacing farm and ranch jobs with poorly paying feedlot positions. By contrast, operations such as Hearst Ranch raise their animals without growth-promoting hormones or antibiotics -- and don't confine their livestock to teeming feed lots. "In the consumer's mind, there's a connection to better health and to better for the environment and to good corporate citizenship," Goldin said. "It's just starting, but I think it's going to be a very powerful movement."

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