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H1N1 Flu and Pork Production Connection Raised By Jonathan Safran Foer
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kevinhutchinsons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The vaccine for the H1N1 virus has received quite a bit of attention lately, however, important questions remain unattended about the origins of the vicious strain and the likely possibility that it spread from unsanitary conditions on factory pig farms. ...17 hours ago -
Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms
Green Fork Blog —
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Eating Animals , the searing indictment of factory farming that Jonathan Safran Foer spent three years painstakingly researching, has got the champions of cheap chuck circling their wagons and denouncing the celebrated novelist’s latest work as just another piece of fiction. Chuck Jolley, writing for the Cattle ...20 hours ago -
More Video of Abused Calves at Vermont Slaughter Plant
Blazing Indiscretions —
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WARNING: Very graphic images: This was at an organic farm in Grand Isle, Vermont skinning a still-living and squirming cow. USDA inspectors were present during the abuse. The Humane Society of the United States went undercover . FoxNews44 reports that the seven-week long investigation led to suspending ...1 day ago -
A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues
Science & Soul —
Authority: 106
You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket. Apples in June. Watermelons in February. Oranges in December. Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season. So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...2 days ago -
BOOKS / Eating Animals : The Beef with Factory Farms
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Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals:A sweeping indictment of factory farms...what we should be talking about is how upward of 99 percent of animals are raised and what it does to them, what it does to the environment, what it does to rural communities, what it does to farmers.By Jessica Roy / November 8, 2009Jonathan ...3 days ago -
Help Name Angela’s Piglet
Vegan Soapbox —
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Last Thursday’s episode of Bones featured video from factory farms . The show, a murder mystery series, was about the murder of a chicken farmer. But a side story involved the artist Angela ’s desire to sponsor a rescued piglet. She wanted to raise enough money to care for this one piglet… and she found ...4 days ago -
Swine Flu Origin | Swine Flu Originated from Pig and Factory Farms?
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The year 2009 has a lot in common with the years 1918, 1976, and 1998 in the medical front. These years marked the time when the world was put to the edge due to swine flu outbreaks. What is worthy of notice is that each new outbreak is represented by a new strain of virus that seems to be more resilient than the ...4 days ago -
Video - Hatchery Horrors
Sustainable Living —
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This video is hard to watch but the realities of factory farming need to be seen. I still eat chicken, I still eat eggs. I avoid chicken that I myself havent purchased, free range only and organic if I can get it, and I only buy free range eggs. I dont know what happens to the male chicks on or prior to a free range ...5 days ago -
It’s Election Day: May I Take Your Order?
Green Fork Blog —
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Millions of Americans will turn out to vote today, and millions more won’t. It’s pretty weird when you think about it. Not voting is like going to a restaurant with some friends, and then, when the waiter brings you the menu, deciding that you can’t be bothered to look at it, so you’re just going to let ...1 week ago -
A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues
Science & Soul —
Authority: 106
Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems. Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work. Keep that in mind. World War II is raging and ammonia is ...1 week ago -
Humane Society Blog Post
Brainworks —
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Not much that needs to be said.... As a person who loves animals and as the they are the focus of my work, I cannot turn a blind eye to these issues. I share so we can all be informed. May we not ever tolerate the cruelty, abuse and neglect of any living being. Humane Society Blog : October 30th I am off ...1 week ago -
A Day of Reckoning
Animal Blawg —
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David Cassuto Halloween is my birthday. That fact alone likely would not merit the holiday’s mention here. I note it because only this year – some forty-odd years into my marking of the day– did I stop to consider what makes this holiday unusual. First, my son, Jesse, whose tastes seem to be rather ...1 week ago -
News Feed October 30, 2009
Green Fork Blog —
Authority: 508
No H1N1 here, but who would know? The Washington Post reports that pork producers are testing less for swine flu (as well as other infectious ailments, like MRSA) than they were before the virus made its global debut last spring. Hat tip to Tom Philpott @ Grist . Welcome to Farmville, Pop: 62 million If your ...1 week ago -
Help Protect Food Safety and Animal Welfare In Ohio From Corporate Interests
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justchaos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons A proposed ballot initiative in Ohio threatens food safety and animal welfare improvements by giving permanent and unchecked power to corporate and special interests , and could pave the way for a radical shift in agribusiness standards in other states as well. It’s ...2 weeks ago -
Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain’s War on Vegetarians
World Change Cafe —
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By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has never made a secret of his disdain for vegetarians and vegans. In his best-selling book Kitchen Confidential the former New York cook remarked somewhat amusingly, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to ...2 weeks ago -
A Strange System: Food: Too Corny
Science & Soul —
Authority: 106
Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable. Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics. The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat. Corn can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into flour for bread. Good stuff this corn. Perhaps ...2 weeks ago -
Livestock Emissions Account for 51% of Greenhouse Gases
Animal Blawg —
Authority: 464
Katie Hance In 2006, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that livestock accounted for 18% of greenhouse gases, making livestock emissions “one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems.” However recently, Worldwatch Institute, ...2 weeks ago -
Organic Gardening Interviews Michael Pollan About Organic Gardening
Mother Earth\'s Garden —
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The other day I talked a little about Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire premiering on PBS. Today I have information about a new interview Michael did with Organic Gardening about the dangers of organic factory farms, the future of organics, and what he thinks of Michelle Obama. The interview appears in the the ...3 weeks ago -
Blood, Guts, E. coli, and Accessibility: Slaughterhouse Rules
Green Fork Blog —
Authority: 508
Back in the day (i.e., 30 or 40 years ago), small slaughterhouses existed throughout the U.S.; this was great for small farms since livestock could be processed locally without much hassle or expense. Unfortunately, the transition to factory farming spawned the creation of huge, highly mechanized, ...3 weeks ago -
Cargill Mad Cow Recall Includes Organic Brands
Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds —
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The agribusiness news is an endless saga of disease and drugs, but to see "Cargill Organic" is not what most organic shoppers are aiming for.3 weeks ago
