Animal Factory

Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Half Your Meat? Time for Congress to Act

David Kirby | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Staph, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Bacteria in Meat, Cafos, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Food, Food Politics, Home News
David Kirby

Maybe now the average American consumer will finally take note, and demand that Congress do something. Candidate Obama ran in support of an antibiotic ban in 2008, but has done little to advance the cause since then.

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Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sows, Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, Sweden, Factory Farming, Hogs, Hsus, Factory Farms, Cafo, Smithfield, Pork, Green News
David Kirby

Pork shoulder at my local supermarket costs 99 cents a pound, but zucchini cost $1.99 a pound. Why? Because American factory farms mass produce swine with such efficiency that the cash value of a pig's life has dwindled downward.

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Foie Gras Factory Farm Can't Duck HSUS Lawsuit

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Foie Gras, Clean Water Act, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Pollution, Lawsuit, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

We have seen time and again that factory farmers' willful disregard for animal welfare often goes hand in hand with disregard for the environment, for workers' rights, and the rights of the unfortunate neighbors of these facilities.

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The Price of Cheap Meat: A Lake Dies in Ohio

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Epa, Gov Ted Strickland, Animal Factory, Usda, Maumee River, Manure Runoff, Dead Zone, Grand Lake St Marys, Ohio, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Lake Erie, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Grand Lake St. Marys -- Ohio's largest inland body of water and a treasured recreational area -- is dying. And if you barbecued some supermarket pork over the holiday weekend, you helped contribute to this disaster.

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Meatless Monday: Celebrating Everyone's Mother

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Battle of Puebla, Beets, Mother's Day, Mexico, Tequila, David Kirby, Cinco De Mayo, Brunch, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Going meatless, even if only for Mother's Day, is environmentally conscientious. Shopping farmers markets encourages you to eat locally and seasonally.

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Biography of a Pork Chop: David Kirby's Animal Factory, and the Not-So-Hidden Costs of Cheap Food

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iowa, Dairy Farm, Farming, Sustainable Food, Dairy, Agriculture, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, David Kirby, Animal Factory, Chicken, Food Politics, Cafo, Sustainability, Pork, Civil Eats, Ragbrai, Food News
Kurt Michael Friese

Here in Iowa we have an event called RAGBRAI - The Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa - the oldest, largest and longest non-competitive...

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For Americans on a Budget, Meats Are the New Carbs

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grocery Prices, Animal Factory, Cafos, Grocery Stores, Factory Farms, Protein, David Kirby, Food Prices, Carbs, Food News
David Kirby

When I was in my 20's, my friends and I knew that the cheapest food available was made of carbs, and we survived on mounds of mac-n-cheese and home fries for lunch, and ramen, rice and beer for dinner. But animal factory farming has changed all that.

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You Want Chicken Poop With That Steak? Why FDA Should Ban Feces From Feed

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Animal Feed, Usda, Fda, Cafo, Factory Farm, Prions, Bse, Obama, Cattle Feed, Mad Cow Disease, Chicken Manure, Animals, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

We feed chicken manure to cattle because it's cheap; and because we produce far too much of it to properly dispose of as fertilizer.

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Gratifying Reviews for Animal Factory

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Animal Factory, David Kirby, Cafo, Factory Farm, Books News
David Kirby

When you work hard for three long years, researching and writing a non-fiction book and hoping that it might be well-received, if not a financial wind...

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This Just In: Indiana to Pop Giant Crap Bubbles on Thursday

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Indiana Crap Bubbles, Crap Bubbles, Factory Farming, Union Go Dairy, Cafo, Factory Farm, David Kirby, Wall Street Journal, Indiana, Idem, Green News
David Kirby

The Indiana Dept. of Environmental Mgmt. will dispatch a team to Winchester to excise the explosive, deadly methane gas that has been trapped under the lining of a mega-dairy.

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The Nutritional Superiority of Pasture Raised Animals

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Nutrional Journal, Jo Robinson, Grass Fed, Cafo, Factory Farming, Factory Farm, Animals, Factory Farms, Grass Fed Meat, Wellness, Pasture Raised, Pasture Raised Beef, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pasture Raised Chickens, Beef Grass Fed, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

You are what you eat - and the same goes for the animals whose meat, milk and eggs you put in your mouth. We should not only be concerned about what we eat, but what our food eats as well.

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Who Will Foot The Bill When The Crap-Bubble Bursts?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Factory Farming, Cafos, Waste Lagoons, Indiana, Factory Farms, Mitch Daniels, Poop Bubbles, Mega-Dairies, Green News
David Kirby

This is not a story about junk bonds or shady hedge fund schemes. It's a story about industrial-scale cow-poop and the potentially deadly, explosive methane gas it produces.

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White House Will Not Say Where It Gets Its Meat (And I Don't Blame Them)

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Michelle Obama, Organic Food, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Barack Obama, Health, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Politics, Green News
David Kirby

Michelle Obama is on a laudable food crusade, promoting the health benefits of fresh and sustainably grown nutrition. But her office doesn't want you to know what the Obamas had for dinner last night.

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NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Factory Farming, The Jungle, Cafo, Swine Flu, Npr, Factory Farms, Bse, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Animal Factory, Fast Food Nation, Muckraking, Mad Cow, Food Inc, Cafos, Eric Schlosser, Books News
David Kirby

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorant. We should not ignore the potential for animal factory farming to one day come back and bite us all in our collective, blissful behinds.

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Obama Keeps Two Factory Farm Promises - Will Hold "National Rural Summit"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Usda, Eric Holder Attorney General, US DOJ, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farm, National Rural Summit, Obama, Cafos, Green News
David Kirby

I learned on Friday that the administration will soon rein in Big Ag and announce a "National Rural Summit," something that candidate Obama had promised but failed to accomplish in his first 100 days.

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Humane Society of the US: New Factory Farm Book is "Groundbreaking... A Dramatic Expose"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hsus, Factory Farms, Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, David Kirby, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, St. Martins Press, Humane Society, Cafo, Books News
David Kirby

Here's an interview I recently gave on my work behind writing Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Envrironment.

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Animal Factory Book Excerpt - Is Manure a Hazardous Substance? Blanche Lincoln Says "No"

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Factory, Cafo, Factory Farm, Fish Kills, Hog Waste, Hog Farms, Rick Dove, North Carolina, Green News
David Kirby

Pro-Agribusiness members of Congress are working to make sure spilled animal waste from industrial farms is exempted from federal Superfund clean-up rules.

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6 Baby Steps Toward a More Sustainable Animal Diet

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sustainable Living, Animal Factory, Factory Farming, Sustainable Food, Cafo, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Sustainable Agriculture, Cafos, Food Politics, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Most people I speak with inherently sense that their meat and dairy should be raised as "humanely and sustainably" as possible, but don't really know what those terms mean.

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Interview: Steve Buscemi on St. John of Las Vegas and the Indy Film World

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Actor Steve Buscemi believes in luck, up to a point. As he notes, it usually has nothing to do with what you do to get it but what you do with it. "I...

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