A meaty bit of advice
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now There are lots of reasons to cut your meat consumption. Producing beef is more resource intensive and energy costly than almost any other type of food production...
View ArticleMother’s Day, pig CAFOS, swine flu
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Our Mother’s Day feast was a deliberately local meal. Now that Texas farms are rolling out produce, we were able to pick up some spring green beans and hot house...
View ArticleChipotle founder testifies about antibiotic-free meat
From Green Right Now Reports: Chipotle, the burrito and taco restaurant chain that has cut against the fast food grain with its adherence to serving natural, sustainbly raised meat, got its day in the...
View Article‘Animal factories’ have no place in a cleaner, healthier world
(The piece posted here is the Introduction to Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby. The new book (March 2010)...
View ArticleSolving the climate crisis at the end of your fork
(The following column was written by Francesca Rheannon, managing editor of the Talkback for the Corporate Social Responsibility newswire.) By Francesca Rheannon Francesca Rheannon produces and hosts...
View ArticleEgg recall is a warning about hyper-industrialized agriculture
(The following blog by Fedele Bauccio, CEO and co-founder of Bon Appétit Management Co., first appeared on Huffington Post and is reprinted with permission from Bon Appétit, a food service company that...
View ArticleCAFO: The story in pictures
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now CAFO pulls back the curtain on industrial agriculture. CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (Daniel Imhoff, editor; Earth Aware, 2010) takes no shortcuts...
View ArticleLawsuit filed to stop antibiotic use in healthy livestock
Animals in many large livestock-raising operations around the world get a small but steady dose of certain antibiotics in their feed. (Photo: EPA) By Steve Baragona VOA WASHINGTON, D.C. — American...
View ArticlePublic health advocates criticize FDA for not stopping meat industry’s...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The FDA’s call to the livestock industry to voluntarily limit its routine use of antibiotics is tantamount to taking no action, say critics of the FDA’s plan,...
View ArticleThe pending health epidemic that Congress could address – post shutdown...
Green Right Now Reports As Congress has been gripped by the dramedy of the Ted Cruz and Koch Brothers-inspired government shutdown/debt ceiling frenzy, people in California and a few other states have...
View ArticleAnimal rights advocate Peter Singer explains how inhumane factory farming...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Peter Singer, whose revolutionary work Animal Liberation (1975) challenged people to have more empathy for farm animals, has added a layers to his message in recent...
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