Meat Industry

Who's Pulling the Strings of the Vegan Propaganda Machine?

Nil Zacharias | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Vegan Diet, Plant-Based Diet, Meat Industry, Meat Advertising, Vegan Propaganda, Vegan, Vegan Food, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

At times, it almost feels like every scientist in the world is secretly conspiring to ruin the idea of a good meaty meal by generating more bad news about meat and well-researched proof that a plant-based diet is optimal for good health.

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Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.14.2012

The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.

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Let Them Eat Slime

Kelly Dorfman | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Biodynamic Farming, Conscious-Eating, Pink Slime, Economics of Food Choices, Meat Industry, Healthy Food, Healthy Living Health News, Meat Health, Public Health, Healthy Eating Food, Healthy Living News

Safe, consciously-raised animals are not too expensive for most of us, but we all have to adjust to the real cost of producing healthy food.

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BPI's Response to Outrage Over Ground Beef? 3 Governors and a T-shirt

Michele Simon | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Texas, Iowa, Meat Industry, Meat, Rick Perry, Terry Branstad, Food Politics, Food News

Blaming the media for exposing this questionable process to the light of day is a textbook corporate move. When you'd rather not answer the hard questions just deflect attention by placing blame elsewhere.

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10 Suggestions for Female Judges for NY Times' "Ethical Meat" Contest

Michele Simon | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Meat, Food Politics, Ethical Meat, The New York Times, New York Times, Meat Industry, NY Times, Food News

Yesterday, I wrote about how the New York Times' contest for meat eaters is great PR for the meat industry. Upon sending that missive to the Times, I ...

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New York Times' "Ethical Meat" Contest Is Great PR for Meat Industry

Michele Simon | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Eating Meat, Meat Politics, Meat Industry, Impact of Meat Eating, New York Times, Food News

The New York Times is holding a silly contest for meat-eaters to have their say. Here is my entry.

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Whistleblower to Maker of Pink Slime: 'Quit Harassing Me'

Michele Simon | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Food Safety, Hamburgers, Meat Industry, Meat, Food Politics, Food News

All the hullaballoo reminded me of a dramatic talk I witnessed about a year ago on this very topic.

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Beyond Pink Slime

Andy Bellatti | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Pink-Slime-Fast-Food, Fast Food Meat, Worst Cafeterias, Pink Slime Ground Beef, Pink Slime, Ground Beef Pink Slime, School Cafeterias, Meat Industry, Pink Slime Fast Food, School Cafeteria Food, Food News

"Pink slime," also known as mechanically-separated meat is the food scandal du jour, and one of many symptoms of a broken food system.

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Meat Industry Says New Antitrust Rule Will Raise Prices

AP | By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Usda Meat Regulations, Usda Antitrust Rule, USDA Antitrust, Video, Agriculture, Tyson Foods, Usda, Meat Prices Regulation, Meat Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Food News

ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new but stripped-down antitrust rule Thursday regulating meat companies that's far less swe...

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How The Meat Industry Turned Abuse Into A Business Model

Mother Jones | Tom Philpott | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Spam, Worker Abuse, Workers, Abuse, Meat Processing, Meat, Meat Industry, Spam Factory, Food News

As a long-time student of the meat industry, I read Ted Genoways' extraordinary article on conditions at the "head table" of a factory-scale pig-proce...

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New England To Expand Local Beef Slaughtering Capabilities

AP | By STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: New England Slaughterhouses, Slaughterhouse, Meat Industry, New England Beef, Beef, Local Beef, New England, Food News

HARTFORD, Conn. -- With few slaughterhouses in New England equipped to process beef on a large scale, Paul Miller ships cattle from his dairy farm in ...

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Meat Industry Recruits College Students To Promote Eating Beef On Campus

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Meet Your Meat, Meat Industry Statistics, Meat Industry News, Masters of Beef Advocacy, Meat Industry Problems, Meat Industry, Meat Industry Jobs, College News

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The national beef industry has enlisted college students across the country in its public relations fight for America's hearts, ...

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found In Half Of U.S. Meat

Slashfood | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Contaminated Meat, Food Illness, Food Safety, Staphylococcus Aureus, Bacteria in Meat, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Meat, Meat Industry, Staph Bacteria, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Food News

What's lurking in the meat you're buying for your family? Plenty of bacteria, according to a new study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious D...

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Farming Bison To Bring Back A True American Breed

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Breed, Exotic Animals, Skeeternyc, National Bison Association, Beef, Buffalo, Slowfood, Food Curated, Liza deGuia, Cattle, Film, Animals, Organic, Meat Industry, Good Food, Bison, Sustainable, Video, Restaurant, Cooking, Farmers, Edwin Tuccio, Bison Farming, Documentary, North Quarter Farm, Food, Meat, Food News

Right now, it's good to be a bison farmer. There's a growing demand for the meat, prices have doubled, and there's a lot more interest in the food community, something attributable to the changing American diet.

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In Memory of Dr. Dean Wyatt: A Courageous Voice Against Cruelty

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Slaughterhouse, Veterinarians, Humane Society of the United States, Whistleblowers, Farm Animals, Slaughter Plant, Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, Usda, Meat Industry, Bushway Packing Inc., Green News

Most of us have had the fortunate experience of meeting individuals, at one point or another in our lives, who demonstrated integrity and commitment o...

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Meat Industry Unhappy About Limits On Antibiotics

The Washington Post | Karen Dillon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Cattle Ranchers, Animal Antibiotics, Meat Industry, Food News

KANSAS CITY, MO. - For decades, factory farms have used antibiotics even in healthy animals to promote faster growth and prevent diseases that could s...

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Less Demand For Beef Could Mean Lower Quality Meat

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Beef Industry, Meat Industry News, Beef Industry Issues, Beef Industry Trends, Beef Industry Outlook, Meat Industry, Beef Industry News, Healthy Living News

AINSWORTH, Neb. — In this Great Plains ranching town, cowboys still lasso steers as part of their daily routine and cattle producers like Bob Se...

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Ninety Years On - Will the Feds Finally Break Up the Meat Monopoly?

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Vilsack, Packers and Stockyards Act, Farmers, Monopoly, Hogs, Antitrust, Conspiracy, Food, Cattle, Ranchers, Meat, Meat Industry, Food Monnopoly, Eric Holder, Food Industry, Green News

In 1919 the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported to President Woodrow Wilson on a months-long investigation that produced seven volumes of evide...

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USDA Proposes Tougher Meat Industry Antitrust Rules

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, USDA Antitrust, Usda, Agriculture Antitrust, USDA Meat Industry Antitrust, Meat Antitrust, Meat Industry, USDA Meat, Business News

ST. LOUIS — The Obama administration on Friday proposed new antitrust rules for meat companies that reflect a willingness by the USDA to shift t...

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Nicolette Hahn Niman: A Vegetarian Ranchers Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nicolette Hahn Niman, Grass-Fed, Cafos, Meat Industry, Meat, Vegetarianism, Niman-Ranch, Green News

Part personal narrative and part investigative journalism, her Righteous Porkchop is a much-needed addition to the conversation about what should be on our plates these days.

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Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Big Ag, Agribusiness, Caged Animals, Humane Treatment of Animals, Meat Industry, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News

Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

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Fighting the Big Lie of Mass Consumption

Natalia Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Planet Earth, Social Change, Cancer, Mass Consumption, The Big Lie, Meat Industry, Processed Foods, Food Industry, Social Psychology, Green News

Keeping people employed is not a good enough reason to perpetuate the plunder of our precious resources. Convenience is not a good enough reason. Fear of change is not a good enough reason.

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14 Sickened In Colorado With Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Burgers, With a Side of Flame Retardants

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farmed Beef, Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Meat Production, Meat Industry, Food Politics, Food, Green News

Here's the latest: In Colorado, 14 people have fallen ill from hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistent salmonella, the Boulder newspaper Dail...

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The Breathtaking Effects Of Cutting Back On Meat

Kathy Freston | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Statistics Meat Environment, Carbon Emissions, Meat and the Environment, Meat Industry, Vegetarianism, Livestock's Long Shadow, Vegan, Healthy Living News

Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.

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Your Diet has More Climate Change Impact than your Car

Penny Herscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pescatarianism, Climate Change, Reasons to Be a Vegetarian, Meat Industry, Vegetarianism, Toyota Prius, Impact of Eating Meat, Meat, Green News

The meat industry produces more carbon emissions than the auto industry.

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