Yesterday was a good morning to wake up and smell the coffee. The New England Journal of Medicine published outcomes from the the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, which found drinking coffee was associated with living longer in both men and women. This is not only the largest study...

The downer dairy cow recently found stricken with mad cow disease in California was infected with an "atypical" strain. Such cases are thought to arise spontaneously, a notion the USDA seized upon to explain how the disease could arise despite their regulations. If anything, that fact highlights the weaknesses in...

In a recent New York Times column, Nick Kristof called attention to a new study strongly suggesting that the U.S. poultry industry is still using a prohibited class of antibiotics in violation of a 2005 ban. Conducted by public health researchers at Johns Hopkins and Arizona State University, the...

More than a decade ago, the World Health Organization called for the exclusion of the riskiest bovine tissues -- cattle brains, eyes, spinal cord and intestine -- from the human food supply and from all animal feed to protect against the spread of mad cow disease. Unfortunately, the United...

I was still in medical training when I was called to testify in defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous "meat defamation" trial. If you remember, Oprah swore she would never eat another burger again after hearing that cows were being fed the remains of other cattle. After she tried...

When recently asked why they agreed to feed "pink slime" to our children, school lunch officials said it was to drop the price of ground beef -- by 3 cents per pound. This disturbing admission should come as no surprise, however, for anyone familiar with the meat industry's...