Farm antibiotic use increased yet again in 2014. Farmers are now using 23% more antibiotics than they were in 2009.
Tag: animal agriculture
The Debate About Drug-Free Meats: Are we Asking the Right Questions?
The drug free meats debate misses the point. To feed the world, we need to eat more plants.
Slaughterhouse Cruelty and Farm Worker Inequality Hurts Us All
We have the power to change lives for farm workers and end slaughterhouse cruelty by making more mindful food choices.
Chicken Factory Farming: One chicken farmer speaks out.
Contract farmer Craig Watts spoke out about chicken factory farming in a heart-wrenching video. This is what Cage Free, Humanely Raised chickens really look like on a Perdue factory farm.
Antibiotics Use in Livestock? The Dutch Say No.
Can large-scale meat production survive without antibiotics use in livestock to accelerate growth and prevent disease? The Dutch are giving it a try.
Top News from the Food Front: Salmonella Spice Rack, Soda Ban, OMG BSE
This week’s food news will make you cringe and rejoice. New obesity research offers both hope and Western chagrin. Animal ag’s dark footprint puts salmonella on the spice rack, as well as on sandwiches. According to the CDC, we’ve got a bit of a mad cow problem around here — though obviously it’s actually a human problem; more specifically, it’s a wildly dysfunctional food-system problem that we could fix if we chose to do so. Don’t miss the yum or ignore the yuck: read on, for the week’s top news in food!
How to Stop the Water Crisis: Eat Plants
Is a vegan diet the answer to our water crisis? It just may be.
Top News from the Food Front: Vegan Romance, GMO Controversy, Organic Boomtime
What’s new in food news? Great things and foolish things! Veganism boosts sexytime, organics go mainstream, and states take action against agricultural abuse of antibiotics. Meanwhile the GMO labeling battle rages, the biotech industry throws well-funded hissyfits, and U.S. trade suffers because we can’t get our GMO problem under control. Read on, for the week’s best and worst news in food!
Top News from the Food Front: School Lunch Soulsuckers, Animal-Ag Absurdities, & GMO Vetos
Is your ‘Chef’s Special’ dinner protected by copyright law? Do you know what potentially problematic chemistry your yoga mat and your bread (plus about 500 other grocery items in your pantry) might have in common? Consumers increasingly turn away from genetically modified food: does the food industry give a flip? Does the FDA? For all this food news and more — including a long list of factory-farm foolishness to boggle the noodles of non-sociopathic food fans — read on!
Our Taste for Animal Protein and Its Environmental Impact
How is our taste for animal protein impacting the environment? Lester Brown from Earth Policy Institute has the scoop.
Banksy Video Highlights Cruelty of Factory Farming
Graffiti artist Banksy released a powerful video that showcases one of the cruel aspects of factory farming. Watch his video, “Sirens of the Lambs,” here:
Why Lab Meat Is & Isn’t the Answer
Last week researchers whisked back the curtain on a hot new invention in the food science world: lab-grown meat. The development of ‘schmeat’ lights a fire under foodies in all camps — carnistic folk or those with animal industry ties argue it’ll never be as ‘good’ as carcass-meat from actual beings; the public reception seems skeptical at best; some animal rights enthusiasts support it as a means to less killing; and some vegans stridently oppose the premise that more meat (however it’s made) could be the answer to any question worth asking. But complex problems rarely lend themselves to simple solutions: there’s more to the issue of lab-made meat than simplistic yes-or-no arguments can adequately address.
Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Utah’s Ag-Gag Law
A group of animal welfare advocates, journalists and others recently filed suit against the state of Utah, in which plaintiffs claim the state’s year-old ag-gag law violates the U.S. Constitution. Though many states have joined the ag-gag craze, Utah was the first to attempt a (failed) prosecution under such a statute — and now boasts the first lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of these anti-whistleblower anti-transparency pro-animal-cruelty laws.