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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow? 'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Remember those 'downer' cows that got forced through the kill line and into the food supply in California's Westland/Hallmark beef-packing plant -- the ones caught on tape by the Humane Society of the United States? Rest assured, friends -- that was an isolated incident. Thus USDA assures us in a recent interview. Only ... not so much. For those who want to believe that downers ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Still a 'jungle' out there Upton Sinclair on downer cows	Tom Philpott	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Regarding the record-breaking meat recall in California, involving an industrial slaughterhouse that used torture to compel downer (i.e, too sick to walk) cows to slaughter, I caught word of a passage from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (published exactly 102 years ago Monday). Forcing downer cows through the kill line and into the food supply has a long and ignominious history. (The practice of mixing meat from downer cows into the food supply, of course, played a heavy r ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, books, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Don't have a (downer) cow, man Despite biggest meat recall ever, 37 million pounds of suspect meat made it to schools.	Tom Philpott	18 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry.In the last edition of Meat Wagon, we mentioned the scandal at an industrial-scale slaughterhouse in California, where workers had been caught on videotape torturing severely sick ("downer") cows. Horrifically enough, the workers were abusing the enfeebled animals in an attempt to get them stagger to slaughter -- where their flesh would be mixed with that of other cows, and sent to market. M ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, education, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Poultry-worker blues OSHA looks the other way while poultry giants abuse workers	Tom Philpott	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. In an excellent muckraking report which underlines the importance of metropolitan newspapers, The Charlotte Observer has shined a bright light into one of the murkiest corners of our food system: poultry-packing factories. The report focuses on North Carolina-based House of Raeford, the nation's seventh-largest poultry packer. According to an industry trade journal, Raeford churns out 20 milli ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: A roundup of outrages from the meat industry Cruelty to hogs, and wretched meatpacking conditions	Tom Philpott	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
As the Senate debates the farm bill, which contains an entire title that would limit the power of the industrial-meat giants, you might think the industry would be on its best behavior, trying to act mellow while its lobbyists sort things out on the Hill. And yet the industry is currently churning out outrages as if they were sausage: hence 'Meat wagon,' a new regular feature. Here we go: The animal-rights group PETA has gotten hold of a video showing system ...
Topics: animal welfare, industrial ag, agriculture, food (all these topics)

Environmentalism and animal rights: philosophical differences, common goals The activists among us should remember that there's plenty to do together	David Roberts	11 Sep 2006	Gristmill
I hope everyone's been following the discussion on animal rights and environmentalism. I continue to be impressed with the decency and thoughtfulness of the community that's gathered here. Frogfish said most of what needed to be said. The unit of analysis for conservationism is population; for animal rights it is the individual. If you ask me, animal rights is morally bankrupt in the absence of environmentalism -- not the other way around. But we should all remem ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, industrial ag (all these topics)

McChicken Run Consumers have the power to fight factory farms	Donella H. Meadows	02 Oct 2000	Global Citizen
According to the rules of the World Trade Organization, governments cannot block the import of a product on the basis of how it is produced. So what if a rainforest has been cut down or a stream polluted or an animal tortured or workers paid pitiful wages? That's the concern of the producing country, not the consuming one. Consumers should care only that they get what they want as cheaply as possible. ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, business, consumerism, food, industrial ag, sustainable ag (all these topics)

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