{"id":8294,"date":"2009-04-10T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:33:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:33:04","slug":"interactive-map-of-us-factory-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/10\/interactive-map-of-us-factory-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interactive Map of U.S. Factory Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food &amp; Water Watch has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoryfarmmap.org\/\">interactive map<\/a> that allows you to click on states and see how many factory farms it has per county, broken down into cattle (meaning beef, I assume), hogs, dairy, broilers, and layers (the last two are both chickens). You can look at number of facilities or number of animals. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the number of cattle containment facilities in the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8295 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"picture-1\" width=\"488\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-1.png 488w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-1-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Factory farms were identified using Census of Agriculture data and counting those that &#8220;best match the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s definition for a confined animal feeding operation&#8230;&#8221; based on the following guidelines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8296 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-11.png\" alt=\"picture-11\" width=\"544\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-11.png 596w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/04\/picture-11-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very detailed description of the methodology available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/food\/factoryfarms\/factoryfarm-methodology\">here<\/a> and an explanation of the maps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/food\/factoryfarms\/factory-farm-map\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food &amp; Water Watch has an interesting interactive map that allows you to click on states and see how many factory farms it has per county, broken down into cattle (meaning beef, I assume), hogs, dairy, broilers, and layers (the last two are both chickens). You can look at number of facilities or number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,2123,2124,1826],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-environmentnature","tag-foodagriculture","tag-geographymaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31456,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/31456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}