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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The worst job in America	Jason D Scorse	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Many posts on Grist detail the negative environmental impacts of factory farming and the meat and dairy industries overall. Bottom line: There is probably no personal act more effective at benefiting the environment than reducing meat consumption. But a true environmentalist must also take a hard look at the social dimensions of sustainability; again, the meat industry ranks as the worst form of abuse. As this radio show documents, slaughterhouses in America are pl ...
Topics: ecological footprint, green living, livestock, radio (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Whole Foods edition The natural foods giant stumbles into an E. coli outbreak	Tom Philpott	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Suddenly, Whole Foods can't get a break. Its share price has plunged about 70 percent since the end of 2005. Its marketing execs are scrambling to shed the company's reputation for premium-priced offerings -- a market position they once reveled in. The natural foods titan used to wow Wall Street with seemingly endless announcements of new-store openings. Now it's scaling back expansion plans. ...
Topics: animal welfare, business, food, health, livestock (all these topics)

A superbug's life Another reason to fear the factory farm	Kit Stolz	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Superbugs. An alarming story in this week's The New Yorker focuses on man-made new diseases that cannot be eradicated with conventional antibiotics, even inside hospitals. The writer quotes Michael Pollan to explain the connection to your local meat factory: 'Seventy per cent of the antibiotics administered in America end up in agriculture,' Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism at Berkeley and the author of 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto,' told [t ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, health, livestock (all these topics)

Why market conditions mean more M&M-fed beef and less grass-fed A great WSJ video on the mad economics of cow farming	Tom Philpott	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This wonderful little video by Wall Street Journal Multimedia originally came out in July, but the newspaper embedded it today in an article on feed prices. It contains two highly interesting bits of information. 1) With corn prices hovering at historically high levels, industrial-scale meat producers are turning to junk food as a feed supplement to cling to razor-thin profit margins. A feedlot operator calmly tells the Journal that he's cutting corn rations w ...
Topics: agriculture, food, livestock, video (all these topics)

I'll Have the Marsupial of the Day Aussies should fight climate change by eating kangaroo, says study		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 08 Aug 2008 Australians who want to make a dent in climate change just need to eat more kangaroo, says a new study in the journal Conservation Letters. The methane-producing burps and farts of sheep and cattle contribute 11 percent of Australia's annual greenhouse-gas emissions. Kangaroos, however, emit little methane. Researchers say that 175 million kangaroos could produc ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, livestock, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Dispatches From the Fields: How CAFOs came to Iowa farm country Ironically, a lost battle against a hog factory planted the seeds for a sustainable farm	Ariane Lotti	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches From the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. ----- One Step at a Time Gardens is a model of agricultural sustainability. Over 50 varieties of vegetables grow in rotation on six acres of fine Iowa topsoil that receive no synthetic chemicals. Compost, cover crops, and chicken manure ...
Topics: agriculture, CSAs, Iowa, livestock, state politics, video (all these topics)

Good news for modern farm animals From New Jersey, bad news for factory farms	Tom Philpott	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Thomas Hobbes famously described life in a 'state of nature' as 'nasty, brutish, and short.' The U.S. meat industry appears to have taken Hobbes' statement as a prescription for proper animal husbandry. Every year, millions of farm animals are slaughtered without ever knowing anything besides life in a grim, crowded cage. Many are subjected to painful mutilation, as in the case of 'tail docking.' In a sense, cows may have it worst of all. They typically spend th ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, livestock, New Jersey (all these topics)

Down on the factory farm California's Prop 2 could end the worst farm-animal abuses and set a national precedent	Meredith Niles	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When Californians go to the polls in November they can set a precedent for the rest of the country by ending the worst animal and environmental abuses and simultaneously increasing the safety of our national food supply. It's an election year and we all know what that means -- big money, big events, and big promises. As the rest of the country listens endlessly to the political propaganda of the last few desperate months before November, California voters are bein ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, livestock (all these topics)

Graze Anatomy Conservation land in flood zone opened to grazing		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 09 Jul 2008 Livestock grazing will be allowed on thousands of acres of Midwest land that had been set aside for conservation, Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schaeffer announced this week. Under the federal Conservation Reserve Program, landowners are paid to let their acreage just chill out and be wildlife habitat. But after the region's recent spate of flooding, Schaeffer gave in to the requests of sev ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, habitat loss, livestock, news (all these topics)

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