Cattle

National Trust Releases 'What's Your Beef?' Report

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Co2, Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Beef, Cattle, Grassfed, Sustainable, Gunther, Food News

A recent report from the UK's highly respected National Trust has confirmed: Feeding cattle on grass throughout their life-cycle is the most environmentally sustainable way to raise beef.

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Mad Cow Located At Hanford, Calif. Transfer Station

AP | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mad Cow, Video, Mad Cow California, Mad Cow Risks, Cattle Futures, Food Safety, Cattle, Mad Cow Disease, Slidepollajax, USDA Mad Cow, Meat, Mad Cow Disease Prevention, Los Angeles News

HANFORD, Calif. -- A senior manager with a California rendering company said Tuesday a cow at its Hanford, Calif., transfer station tested positive fo...

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Mad Cow Case Confirmed In California

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mad Cow California, Cattle Futures, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Cattle, Mad Cow Disease, Mad Cow, Video, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Risks, Food Safety, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Usda, Bse, Meat, Mad Cow Disease Prevention, USDA Mad Cow, Slidepollajax, Mad Cow Disease California, Food News

The USDA has confirmed that a case of mad cow disease was found in a California dairy cow. It is the fourth case of mad cow, or bovine spongiform en...

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'Not Your Typical Let's-Steal-A-Cow Kinda People'

AP | By JIM SUHR | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Video, Cattle Raiding, Cattle Ranch, Cattle Ranchers Association, Cattle Rancher, Cattle, Cow Theft, Colorado News, Stealing Cattle, Cattle Rustling, Cows, Cow, Branding Cattle, Colorado Rancher Hunting Prairie Finds Cow, Cattle Rustling on the Rise Again in Texas October 2011, Cattle Ranching in Okla, Colorado Ranch Cattle Rustling 2011, Denver News

ST. LOUIS -- Even with cattle theft rampant in much of the nation's midsection, Oklahoma rancher Ryan Payne wasn't worried about anyone messing with h...

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WATCH: How One Farm Will Keep Going After Hurricane Irene

Liza de Guia | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Devastation, David Lloyd, Recovery, Food Videos, Dairy Farm, Hurricane Irene Floods, News, Denise Lloyd, Skeeternyc, Crops, Corn, Hurricane Irene, Food Curated, Maple Downs Farm, Flooding, Liza deGuia, Cattle, 2011, New York, Costs, Holsteins, Feed, Farms, Documentary, Upstate, Schoharie, Middleburgh, Food News

"I didn't have time to think about being scared." On August 28th, hundreds of farms in upstate New York were destroyed by massive floods caused by Hu...

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Eat Like A Pro Football Player

Andrew Gunther | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Sports, Cattle, Tennessee Titans, Organic Food, Health, Nutrition, Diet for Athletics, Athlete Diet, Fitness and Exercise, Will Witherspoon, Meat and Athletes, Healthy Living News

Ever heard of the phrase "you are what you eat?" Well, no one takes this more seriously than today's top athletes.

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North Dakota Monastery Puts Its Ranching Operation Out To Pasture

AP | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Abbot Brian Wangler, Assumption Abbey, North Dakota, Cattle Business, Cows, Catholicism, Brother Placid Gross, Devil's Lake, Cattle, North Dakota Monastery, Roman Catholic Monastery, Animals, Green News

RICHARDTON, N.D. -- A Roman Catholic monastery in North Dakota is putting its ranching operation out to pasture because it lacks monks with cowboy ski...

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The Good Slaughter: A Proud Meat Cutter Shows His Processing Floor

Liza de Guia | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Larry Althiser, Food Movement, Food Videos, Sustainable Food, Ny, Butchering, Beef, Agriculture, Pigs, Food Curated, Sustainable Agriculture, Lamb, Liza deGuia, Gothamist, Meat Processing, Butchers, Good Food, Inspiring, Local Farmers, Pork, Slaughter Video, Farming, Larry's Custom Meats, Dairy Farms, Skeeternyc, Featured, Grass-Fed Movement, Cattle, Pasture-Raised, Slaughterhouse, Ominvore's Dilemma, Food, Grassfed, Cade, News, Meat, Food News

"My hope is that my children will have the same passion for this as I do..." Meet Larry Althiser, the owner and head meat cutter for Larry's Custom M...

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Building Artisan Slaughterhouses to Feed the Demand for Grass-fed Meat (Part 1)

Liza de Guia | Posted 06.08.2011

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Meet Chris Harmon, the Executive Director of CADE, The Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship in New York State. CADE is a non-profit ...

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The Low-Down on Downers and the USDA

Gene Baur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Sanctuary, President Obama, Factory Farming, Sheep, Downers, Undercover Investigations, Alison Longley, Campaigns, Agribusiness, Goats, News and Updates, Downed Animals, Pigs, Usda, Slaughterhouses, Cattle, Petition, Investigations, Impact News

Now is our chance to let the USDA know that we demand that action is taken to prevent downed animals from being abused and slaughtered for human food.

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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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10,000 Cattle Dead In Vietnam: Cows, Buffalo Part Of Mass Die-Off

Posted 05.25.2011

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In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam. Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Developmen...

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PHOTOS: Wholphins, Ligers, And Other Crazy Animals Hybrids

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

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You've probably seen a hybrid in your time. The mule is a hybrid between the horse and a donkey. Plants and flowers are frequently mixed to create new...

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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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Cowboys Versus Packers This Week -- And We're Not Talking Football

Mabel Dobbs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Western Organization of Resource Councils, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Packers and Stockyards Act, Ranching, Antitrust, Cattle, Usda, Meatpacking, Denver News

A tiny handful of giant meatpackers and processors have been underpaying and unfairly treating livestock producers for decades. These packers control the livestock markets.

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Cows Escape: Slaughterhouse-Bound Truck Overturns, Some Cows Flee

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slaughterhouse, Cattle, Cows, Cows Escape, Beef, Food News

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Police say 12 cows being driven to the slaughterhouse made a break for freedom when the truck that was transporting them o...

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Important Progress for Farm Animals in Ohio

Gene Baur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Sanctuary, Factory Farming, Current Affairs, Legislation, Gene Baur, Eggs, Ballot Initiative, Campaigns, Agribusiness, Chickens, Ohio Ballot Initiative, Volunteers, News and Updates, Downed Animals, Pigs, Cattle, Law, Confinement, Impact News

Over the past year, more than 500,000 Ohio citizens signed a petition aimed at placing an initiative on the statewide ballot this November to ban cruel factory farming practices.

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The Meat of Argentina Would Make a San Francisco Vegetarian's Head Explode

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011

One can't help but to fall in love with not only Buenos Aires, but also all the culinary delights that are concocted with their fine beef and meats. Ahoy meaty!

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11 Dead Cows Seen Floating Down Yampa River

KMGH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dead Cows, Yampa River State Park, Yampa River, Cattle, Routt County, Denver News

ROUTT, Colo. -- Animal control officials are investigating how 11 cows seen floating down the Yampa River near Hayden died. A Routt County resident...

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Ohio Animal Abuse Demonstrates Need for Farm Animal Protection Laws

Gene Baur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conklin, Agribusiness, Factory Farming, Legislation, Gene Baur, Cattle, Dairy, Ohio, Impact News

Footage from Conklin Dairy in Union County, Ohio, shows workers brutally beating cows with crowbars and stabbing them with pitchforks. We need stronger farm animal protection laws.

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Time to Dig Deep for the Animals

Gene Baur | Posted 05.25.2011

Seven U.S. states have now enacted legislation to reform inhumane factory farming systems. But agribusiness officials in Ohio and their legislative cronies have vehemently opposed basic humane reforms.

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Energy From Cow Farts? Colorado Town Plans To Make It Happen

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weld County, Colin Peterson, Renewable Energy, Betsy Markey, Cattle, Methane, Michael Bennet, Cows, Greeley Colorado, Denver News

GREELEY, Colo. — The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the r...

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Temple Grandin: The HBO Movie Starring Claire Danes

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 05.25.2011

Temple Grandin, a world-renowned designer of livestock handling facilities and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, is arguably the world's most famous person with autism.

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Is Ken Salazar In The Pocket Of Ranchers On Wild Horse Issue?

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ranching, Bureau of Land Management, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Cattle, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secr...

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brain Damage, Meat Processors, Food, Agriculture, Regulation, E. Coli, Grocers, Usda, Food Poisoning, Red Meet, Hamburger, E Coli, Severe Food Poisoning, Beef Processors, Health, Ground Beef, Beef, O157:H7, Cargill, Business, Restaurants, Frozen Hamburgers, Burger, Cattle, Ecoli, Food Safety, Costco, Bad Hamburger, Trimmings, Paralyzed, USDA Policy, Food Safety Regulation, Green News

Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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