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...CAFOs, large numbers of animals - 1,000 or more in the case of cattle and tens of thousands for chicken and pigs - are kept in close, concentrated conditions and fattened up for slaughter as fast as possible, contributing to efficiencies of scale and thus lower prices. But animals aren't widgets with legs. They're living creatures, and there are consequences to packing them in prison-like conditions. For instance: Where does all that manure...
...impoverished rural areas that have seen populations collapse over the past several decades - that's hardly a bad thing. Work in a CAFO is monotonous and soul-killing, while too many ordinary farmers struggle to make ends meet even as the rest of us pay less for food. Farmers aren't the enemy - and they deserve real help. We've transformed the essential human profession - growing food - into an industry like any other. "We're hurting for job creation, and industrial food has pushed people off the farm," says Hahn Niman. "We need to make farming real employment, because...
...that fair? Some schools or college presidents or boards have used wanting to improve in the rankings as an administrative goal. Some schools are targeting their academic policies toward improving in the rankings. But I don't think that's really hurting students. The factors that you cited aren't really part of the rankings. Many people at the schools don't understand the ranking methodology and say things as an excuse vs. the truth. Generally, targeting the rankings doesn't hurt students. If schools are targeting ranking factors like improving graduation rates and improving freshman retention and paying faculty...
What keeps you guys from measuring that? There just isn't any data available. The schools themselves aren't measuring learning. What's the difference between your knowledge when you start as a first-year student and when you graduate? What do you feel about the teachers? What's the rigor of the academic program? How engaged are you on campus? Information like that is just not available from all schools...
...lowest ratings for each school, so we have some statistical safeguards to prevent any strategic voting from impacting any school's score. And the fact that the schools' scores have been stable - there's been academic research to show that - is proof in and of itself that schools aren't able to game the scores...