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Article: The commercialization of farming: producing meat for a hungry world: change "will require a rethinking of our relationship with livestock and the price we are willing to pay for safe, sustainable, humanely-raised food.".(Science & Technology)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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WALKING through Bobby Inocencio's farm in the Rizal province of the Philippines is like taking a step back to a simpler time. Dozens of chickens roam around freely in large, fenced pens, pecking at various indigenous plants, eating bugs, and fertilizing the soil. The scene may be bucolic, but Inocencio's farm is anything but simple. What he has re-created is a successful system of raising chickens that benefits small producers, the environment, and even the chickens. Once a "factory farmer," Inocencio used to raise white chickens for Pure Foods, one of the biggest companies in the Philippines. Along with the breed stock and feeds he had to import, Inocencio found himself ...