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Infrastructurally unsound

Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 6
Posted 3 days, 4 hours ago For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help?
Are you faux real?

A tasting of four meatless “turkeys” for the holiday table 27
Posted 4 days, 7 hours ago There are ways to celebrate Thanksgiving that don't involve turkey carnage. Lou Bendrick and her motley band of tasters deliver the goods on four meatless "birds."
Choice nuggets

Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 3
Posted 5 days ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
survey says!

Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 5
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago Adding a bit more data to food system reformers' arguments, a new study led by Germany's prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research takes on the question of whether we can "feed the world" while preserving the planet come 2050.
Denialism and H1N1

Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 23
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago The famed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has been speaking bluntly about swine flu and CAFOs. Will the mainstream media now follow suit?
Putting the cob in macabre

Corn-based meat and ethanol: burning the planet to a crisp 85
Posted 1 month ago Industrial meat and ethanol both come from corn. And both got a shucking from the research community this past week.
Meat wagon

If JBS-Pilgrim’s deal goes through, four mega-firms will dominate the meat landscape 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
What the meat industry would look like if beef behemoth JBS bought chicken giant Pilgrim's Pride.
Meat wagon

Cargill, the National School Lunch Program, and antibiotic-resistant salmonella 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Remember when Cargill recalled nearly a million pounds of hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistant salmonella? Turns out the beef-packing plant in question regularly supplies school cafeterias. And just last year, USDA inspectors watched slaughterhouse workers perform egregious hygiene violations--and the agency declined to fine the company.
Define 'clunker'

Cash for ... other things! 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
So Congress approved and President Obama signed an extension of the hugely popular (and not-really-so-green) cash-for-clunkers program. Woohoo! We can think of some better "Cash for ..." programs the government should be funding ...
A farmer speaks

Debunking the meat/climate change myth 92
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
It's become fashionable to blame meat eating for climate change. But the problem isn't meat itself, but the way we're raising livestock, argues legendary Maine farmer Eliot Coleman.
Meatheads

Meat, climate change, and industry tripe 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A flack from the American Meat Institute recently downplayed meat's contribution to climate change. Tom Philpott sets him straight.
Not So Fast

Umbra on meat eating and global warming 41
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago
Gilled Complex

Umbra on vegetarian remorse 38
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago