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Factory farms get the ultimate handout 5
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days 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 1 month ago
Follow the herd

Another symptom of swine flu: instant amnesia 23
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months ago
Farmers take the hit as the CAFO model comes under pressure 6
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
An interview with Mia MacDonald on China’s growing appetite for U.S.-style meat production 6
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I’m having a cow over beef-tallow biodiesel 9
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
As evidence mounts of deadly bacteria from CAFO pigs, will the FDA and the USDA act? 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
The EPA and FDA send last-minute gifts to the meat industry 0
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Activists circulate last-minute petition to urge progressive farm-policy chief 1
Posted 7 months ago
NYT: Maryland poultry CAFOs snuff out Chesapeake oyster industry 8
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Rumors swirl that Brazilian bombshell’s NFL heartthrob BF caught MRSA 2
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
New research demonstrates that higher infant mortality rates surround CAFOs 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
A Ruminant With a View

USDA has crazy idea that organic cows should get time in pasture 5
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Confirming Pollan, PNAS study shows that fast-food chains mainly peddle corn 12
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago