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Antibiotics With Your Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Vegetarian, Humane, Empathy, Sustainable Food, Humane Society, Vegan, Agriculture, Green, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Animals, Diet, Vegetarianism, Organic, Organic Farms, Eggs, Farms, Ethics, Morality, Heart Disease, Impact, Farming, Healthy Living, Factory Farming, Lifestyle, Social Change, Healthy, Healthy Living News, Hope, Plant-Based, Nutrition, Environment, Food, Social Good, Diet and Nutrition, Video, Impact News

Spit out that Thanksgiving leftover ham and pick up a barf bag. Because even the hardy Pilgrims would take a pass on some of those leftovers if they k...

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Are Wolves the Real Killers? Feds Count Livestock Losses Differently in the Northern Rockies

Wendy Keefover-Ring | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Predator Control, Usda, Humane, Agribusiness, Conservation, Wildlife Services, Wolf Watchers, Wolves, Green News

Despite their immense importance, wolves are relentlessly persecuted by the livestock industry. These producers, as we show here, inflate the numbers of livestock losses from wolves.

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Undercover Investigation of a Dog Factory Farm

Josh Tetrick | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Holistic, Vegetarian, Humane, Empathy, Sustainable Food, Vegan, Animal Shelters, Green, Factory Farms, Dog Lovers, Sustainable Agriculture, Animals, Hsus, Spirit, Ethics, Morality, Climate Change, Mind, Impact, Farm Sanctuary, Farming, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Social Change, Hope, Body, Good, Hunger, Plant-Based, Health, Health News, Social Good, Food, Dog, Dogs, Green News

Last week, the animal protection organization Mercy For Animals released a video taken undercover by an employee wearing a hidden camera at a dog fact...

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Texas Wild Boars & The Ethics Of Eating Invasive Species

Daniel Klein | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Daniel Klein, Vegetarian, Humane, Invasive, Local, Slaughter, Feral Pigs, Perennial Plate, Pest, Ecological, Sustainable, Wild Food, Food News

Most farmers in TX want to kill all feral pigs. We've heard from vegetarian vegetable farmers who use trapping to save their crops.

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Dog: The Other White Meat

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Farm Sanctuary, Social Good, Vegan, Sustainable Food, Morality, Food, Impact, Social Change, Lifestyle, Health, Green, Wellness, Climate Change, Vegetarian, Sustainable Agriculture, Empathy, Doing Good, Hope, Hsus, Plant-Based, Ethics, Farming, Hunger, Humane, Animals, Factory Farms, Food News

Why save dogs, but eat other animals? Pigs are more intelligent. They can dream, recognize their own names, fetch a tennis ball, and lead social lives of a complexity previously observed only in primates. Some even enjoy cuddling.

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Where Are You?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Humane, Empathy, Humane Society, Sustainable Food, Vegan, Agriculture, Green, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Diet, Animals, Vegetarianism, Organic, Organic Farms, Eggs, Farms, Ethics, Morality, Battery Cages, Impact, Farming, Lifestyle, Social Change, Factory Farming, Healthy, Hope, Compassion, Plant-Based, Nutrition, Cooking, Environment, Food, Social Good, Compassion Over Killing, Food News

Where are you? Three rows of masks hang on the wall. Barbed-wire encircles the building. Enormous sets of fans bang. Machines power on intermittently...

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Humane Meat Is the Solution to What, Again?

Nil Zacharias | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Factory Farming, Humane, Vegan Diet, Vegan, Factory Farms, Plant-Based Diet, Humane Myth, Cage Free Eggs, Conscious Consumerism, Humane Slaughter, Cruelty Free, Free-Range, Organic Dairy, Sustainable Meat, Free-Range Myth, Food News

No one can deny that it's better to be less cruel in the ways we confine and kill animals (if we are going to kill and eat them anyway), but if we're interested in long-term change, we can't look at killing with kindness or gratitude as a solution in itself.

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Accidentally Killed: The Next Frontier In Humane Farming

Mike Condrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Farming, Humane, Organic Food, Eco-, Humanely, Farm-Raised, Slaughter, Accidental, Organic, Locavore, Locavores, Cage-Free, Brooklyn, Comedy News

No matter how you do it, slaughtering animals is murder. If it's intentional. So Lucky Farms decided to just set up some dangerous situations and... you know... look the other way.

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5 Steps To More Intimacy...With Your Food

Joseph Satto | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Grass-Fed, Pastured-Poultry, Humane, Local Food, Organic Food, Seasonal Eating, Local Farmers, Food Labels, Food, Healthy Living News

Hens that are 'Cage Free' or 'Free Range' don't necessarily ever make it outside and an egg by definition is from a farm of some sort.

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The Truth Behind So-Called "Humane" Food Labels

Gene Baur | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Farm Animals, Humane, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Inhumane, Food, Green Living, Grocery Shopping, Animal Protection, Healthy Living News

Increasingly, large scale, industrialized animal farms are promoting themselves as humane and sustainable, and misleading consumers.

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Organic, Heritage, Sustainable -- When Talking Turkey, Does it Matter?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane, Turkey, Organic, Heritage, Food Labels, Sustainable, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Tips, Thanksgiving Commentary, Green News

If turkey is on your holiday menu, what then should you buy?  When looking for the right bird, or any poultry for that matter, there is much to consider.

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The Deer Hunter, Westchester Style

Juli Charkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deer, Archers, Humane, Hunting, Population Control, Environment, Westchester, Bow and Arrow, New York News

For anyone handy with a bow and arrow there is good news: Westchester needs you. The county is counting on a few good marksmen to help rid the area of deer herd that are roaming the area.

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Beyond Organic: Animals Raised Organic Can Be Mistreated and Caged, in the Guise of Good

Makenna Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hormone Free, Organic Farming, Chickens, Humane, Cruelty Free, Free-Range, Joel Salatin, All Natural, Organic, Food, Green News

Organic may, in fact, be little more than a sweet notion and marketing campaign that rests easy the hearts of the eco-conscious consumer. Organic, in other words, is not always the right choice.

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