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weasel in sheep's clothing

If you can’t beat ‘em, cheat ‘em 2
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago Issue 2, on Ohio's ballot, is the livestock industry’s attempt to head off restrictions on their worst practices, such as tail docking, battery cages, and gestation crates
USDA FAIL

Can the USDA really keep our food safe? 10
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Having read and listened to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's attempts at ground beef-related damage control in the wake of the recent food safety revelations, I'm left to wonder if the USDA simply needs to get out of the food safety business entirely.
Politics Gone Hog Wild

Boss Hog’s attempted regulatory coup in North Carolina 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
For the past two years, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission has been crafting new rules to require water monitoring at factory hog farms, a significant source of pollution in the state. But last week, even with concerns growing over the environmental impacts of hog farms, the North Carolina Senate unanimously passed a bill that puts the rules process on hold until 2011 -- a display of the mighty political power Boss Hog holds in the state.
We don't want to know about your crap

Factory farms get the ultimate handout 5
Posted 5 months ago
An amendment in the 2010 Interior and Environment spending bill will prevent the EPA from requiring factory farms to report their GHG emissions -- a move that represents a blatant handout to large factory farms.
Meat or nothing

While the West will have to eat less meat, Africa might have to eat more 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Follow the herd

Another symptom of swine flu: instant amnesia 23
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Now that the swine flu that broke out last month is proving not so virulent, it has largely been shuffled off of the front page. But the conditions that likely caused it -- a global web of vast, lightly regulated factory animal farms -- remains in place. And we might not be as lucky next time.
Home groan

CDC: swine flu strain has genetic roots in U.S.A. 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The CDC's chief virus scientist confirms that the swine flu that broke out in Mexico evolved from U.S. hog farms in the 1990s.
Not ready for swine-time players

‘New Scientist’: Swine flu stems from virus that evolved in U.S. 5
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
In a pair of articles in New Scientist, Debora MacKenzie links the swine flu virus now spreading across the globe to large-scale pork-raising operations in the United States.
Taking Issue

Don’t jump to conclusions on swine flu and pork production 6
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Until the medical evidence is in, we just don't know if the swine flu that emerged in Mexico is linked with industrial pork production.
Not the triple theat?

Current flu virus may be 100% swine in origin 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Columbia University researchers are suggesting that the current swine flu outbreak may be a "reassortment" (i.e. rearrangement) of existing swine flu viruses -- and not a swine, avian, and human influenza combo, as has been assumed.
Mama always said

Eating your veggies doesn’t have to be scary 4
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Save some moolah (and Ma Earth) by snarfing beans instead of burgers once a week.
A love of delicious ~~farm votes~~ beef crosses ideological boundaries 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Farmers take the hit as the CAFO model comes under pressure 6
Posted 9 months ago
An interview with Mia MacDonald on China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production 6
Posted 9 months ago
I’m having a cow over beef-tallow biodiesel 9
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
As evidence mounts of deadly bacteria from CAFO pigs, will the FDA and the USDA act? 0
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The EPA and FDA send last-minute gifts to the meat industry 0
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Activists circulate last-minute petition to urge progressive farm-policy chief 1
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago
NYT: Maryland poultry CAFOs snuff out Chesapeake oyster industry 8
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Rumors swirl that Brazilian bombshell’s NFL heartthrob BF caught MRSA 2
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago