- 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:
 

• Eating Mercifully: Christian Perspectives on Factory Farming

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:
 

• Food Babe
  http://foodbabe.com/

 

• Farm Animal Welfare - The Humane Society
  http://www.humanesociety.org/news/publications/whitepapers/farm_animal_welfare.html
   

• Genetically Modified Foods
  http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html

 

• Average Annual Per Capita Consumption of Meat
  http://www.beefusa.org/CMDocs/BeefUSA/Resources/Statistics/annualpercapitaconsumption-meat-boneless491.pdf

 

• 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
   

• 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

 

• Factory Farms: Taxpayers Pay, Politicians Take, Agribusiness Profits - Organic Consumers Association
  http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_28489.cfm

 

• 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

• Animal Cruelty Is the Price We Pay for Cheap Meat - Rolling Stone
  http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists

 

• Farm Animal Cruelty - ASPCA
  http://www.aspca.org/fight-cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty

 

• 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
   

• Oceans: Turning the tides – Environmental Defense Fund
  http://www.edf.org/oceans
   

• Ocean Issues - Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
  http://www.seafoodwatch.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/issues/default.aspx

 

• 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

 

• 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
   

• Stop Shark Fining
  http://www.stopsharkfinning.net/
   

• Gordon Ramsey: Shark Bait
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAkq6lsnoE
   

• Organic Consumers Association
  http://www.organicconsumers.org/
   

• Food Labeling for Dummies - Animal Welfare Approved
  http://animalwelfareapproved.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Food-Labelling-for-Dummies-screen-v9-041013.pdf
   

• NATIONAL CHICKEN COUNCIL ANIMAL WELFARE GUIDELINES
  http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/NCC-Animal-Welfare-Guidelines-2010-Revision-BROILERS.pdf
   

• 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

 

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