Translation of "Industriellen landwirtschaft" in English

Now, thanks to industrial farming, we are living 25 years longer!

Cows are the smallest production unit in a system of industrial farming.

Even by industrialized farming CO2 is generated, although farming should really tie up CO2.

The aim of industrialised agriculture is industrialised agriculture, not the traditional cultural landscape.

But this encouragement of industrial agriculture introduced major new challenges.

This article from 1982 reports on the problems in industrial agriculture.

Any more kow-towing to industrial agriculture would lead in the longer term to our most important drinking water resources being destroyed once and for all.

Doing so requires recognizing that realistic alternatives to industrial agriculture do exist.

Reservations on including certain types of waste and industrial farming were also voiced.

After all, gene drives have the potential to change the entire business model of industrial agriculture.

In industrial agriculture, it is generated on excessively fertilized fields when microorganisms decompose nitrate fertilizers.

This may well promote the elimination of smallholders in favour of the industrial agriculture.

The business model of the agrochemical companies and industrial agriculture plays an important part in these trends.

The producer lobbies as well as the industrial agriculture lobbies stand up against a global ban of Endosulfan.

The industrial method of agriculture is coming to an end anyway.

Perhaps we, as MEPs, must now just face the fact that years of European agricultural policy have, in fact, almost destroyed the high-quality agriculture that can invariably almost be described as small-scale, and have led to the omnipotence of industrial European agriculture and to the omnipotence of a number of agro-industrial groups which are only out to make a profit and which thumb their noses at public health and quality standards.

To conclude, I should like to say that between the two extremes of organic farming and factory farming, there is in fact room for an intermediate, but heterogeneous approach, which must be regulated in the interest of the consumer and of the producers who practise integrated agriculture.

Where groundwater protection is concerned, Parliament has unfortunately bowed to the interests of industrial agriculture and recognised its right to go on polluting the environment to the same degree.

We must put a stop to the daily contamination of groundwater and, above all, we must put an end to the excessive discharges of nitrogen by industrial agriculture, as the previous speaker indicated.

Today there is also too large a focus on industrial agriculture and foreign policy and military projects, and not enough on the environment and social projects.

Unfortunately, a lot of inherited knowledge and farmers' lore has been lost in industrial agriculture, where animals have been reduced to production units and commodities.

It called for a shift in paradigm, the transition of the industrial and external energy dependent agriculture into a multifunctional agriculture that promotes a system-approach to production and problem solving.

These include scaling up renewable energy, phasing out fossil fuels (including an early retirement of existing fossil infrastructure), wider diffusion of sustainable agroecological agriculture, and decreased energy and resource input into our economy.

For starters, governments could redirect public money from factory farming and large-scale agribusiness to smaller, ecologically focused family farms.

A new vision of the US-India relationship would focus on global warming, the collapse of industrial agriculture, the widening gap between rich and poor, the conventional and nuclear arms race in Asia, and the intensification of ethnic and religious conflict.

The recent death of Fabián Tomasi, an Argentine farm worker and critic of the agrochemical industry in his country, was a reminder of the hazards of industrialized agriculture.