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Bill Maher: Why Does IHOP Refuse To Use Cage-Free Eggs? (VIDEO)

Posted 12.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Poultry, Eggs, Fast Food, Chickens, Cage Free Eggs, Ihop, Animals, Cage-Free Animals, Video, Food Politics, Green News

Bill Maher and The Humane Society have banded together to create this video urging IHOP to follow the lead of other fast food chains by switching to c...

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Top 10 (Recent) Developments On Factory Farming And Vegetarianism

Kathy Freston | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Chickens, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Environment, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Presidential Turkey Pardon, Climate Change, Thanksgiving Commentary, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Global Warming, Food Politics, Living News
Kathy Freston

One of the joys for which I am giving thanks is all of the recent attention on a topic that is near and dear to my heart -- the cruelty and environmental harm involved in raising animals for food.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Sustainable Agriculture, The Jungle, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Books, Farming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Chickens, Pets, Livestock, Horses, Euthanize, Politics, Cats, Antibiotics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dogs, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

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Community Coup: Chickens Are the New Dog

Zem Joaquin | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Solar, Organic Garden, Domestic Pets, Grow, Trends, Urban Agriculture, Rural, Organic, Agrarian, Urban, Eggs, Chicken, Poultry, Environment, Hens, Green News
Zem Joaquin

We got our hens after we had to give up our dog due to my son's allergies. I decided that if I was getting a new pet, it was going to reciprocate and have some positive environmental claw-print.

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Urban Chickens: The Latest Trend In New York City (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chickens, New York, Local Food, City Chickens, Raising Chickens, Urban Farming, New York City Chickens, Green News

HuffPost Green is based in New York, and we've heard plenty about the chicken-raising trend in our fair city from organizations like Just Food. Howeve...

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Chicks Being Ground Up Alive Video

Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa Egg Hatchery, Chicks, Video, Mercy for Animals, Animal Rights, Chickens, Male Chicks Killed, Chicks Ground Up Alive, Ground Up Chicks, Green News

(AP) WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending...

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Killing Chickens At Home: Would You Do It? (PHOTOS)

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Food, Farming, Chickens, Slideshow, Killing Your Own Chickens, Local Food, Farms, Green News

Guest post by Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Last night, we had fourteen people over for dinner. And they wanted chicken. Good thing we h...

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Meet Happy Chickens

Sarah Newman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Farming, Orren Fox, Marion Nestle, Chickens, Food Inc., Nba, Takepart, Agriculture, Joel Salatin, Twitter, Heifer, Green News
Sarah Newman

I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.

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Nest Eggs: Some Americans Turn To Raising Their Own Chickens During Recession

nytimes.com | WILLIAM NEUMAN | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Chickens, Livestock, Recession, Raising Chickens, Business News

As Americans struggle through a dismal recession, many are trying to safeguard themselves from what they fear will be even worse times ahead. They eat...

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That's It, I'm Not Paying for Salt Water Anymore

James Boyce | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Chicken Plumping, Chickens, Salt Water, Food Industry, Green News
James Boyce

I didn't know I had been buying salt water until my company, which does online cause-related marketing and messaging, was asked to help raise awareness about the practice of "plumping" chickens.

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Poultry Industry Still Fighting Passed Animal Cruelty Initiative

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Chickens, Animals, Green News

FRESNO, Calif. — By one of the biggest margins in California's rich initiative history, voters decreed last year that egg-laying hens must be ab...

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

Makenna Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

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

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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Oprah Gives Out Free KFC in Most Hypocritical Move Yet

Paula Crossfield | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Animal Cruelty, Food Safety, Chickens, Oprah Winfrey, Peta, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Free Kfc, Oprah Free Kfc, Oprah Free Chicken, Free Kfc Oprah, Kfc Free, Kfc Free Chicken, Free Kfc From Oprah, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Oprah has decided to bolster one of America's worst offenders when it comes to support for factory farming, KFC, by giving away two pieces of chicken to every human in America.

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Chickens For The White House Garden?

The Atlantic Food Channel | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Chickens, White House Kitchen Garden, Eating Matters, Poll, Urban Farming, Food, Locavore, White House Chickens, White House Garden, Green News

After the warm reception to the new White House kitchen garden, you'd think that the Obamas would be left alone on the locavore front, wouldn't you? ...

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Chicken Housing Crisis Hits US Farms

Wall Street Journal | LAUREN ETTER | Posted 03.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Chicken Housing Crisis, Farming, Chickens, Animals, Farmers, Business News

A chicken housing crisis has cropped up in the U.S., and it's producing some of the same bleak results as the human one -- foreclosures, lawsuits and ...

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Eating Squirrel and Four Other Wacky Ways to Make Your Meal Green

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, Food, Green Living, Organic Food, Food Politics, Geren Energy, Chickens, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

The kitchen is a good place to start when it comes to green living. We already know that eating organic is better for both your body and the earth. Bu...

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Chickens As Pets: An Urban Farmstead

Los Angeles Times | Deborah Netburn | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Chicken, Chickens, Pets, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Urban Farming, Environment, Urban Farms, Cage Free Eggs, Animals, Los Angeles, Local Farmers, Green News

Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne started keeping chickens in their Echo Park backyard a little more than a year ago. The two are co-authors of "The Urban ...

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Clever Chicken Hides Out In McDonald's Parking Lot (VIDEO)

ABC News | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, McDonald's, Chickens, Animal Rights, Animals, Eating Matters, Animal Welfare, Green News

A rooster escaped from a truck that was carting it to a chicken nugget factory, and sought immunity in a McDonald's parking lot. Luckily, the McDonald...

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Famous People on Why The Chicken Crossed the Road--From a Liberal Perspective

Rob Kall | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chickens, Obama, Apple, Clinton, Mccain, Palin, Political Humor, Politics News
Rob Kall

An old friend sent me something like this, but clearly written mostly with a right wing slant. So I rewrote every one, deleted some and added some to ...

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Not So Eggcellent

Cheri Shankar | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Debeaking, Chickens, Proposition 2, Animal Rights, Animals, Hsus, Veganism, Prolapse, Menifee California, Norco Farms, Animal Abuse, Chicken Abuse, Vegetarianism, Egg Laying Farms, Chicken Farms, Prop 2, Mercy for Animals, Norco Ranch, Norco Farms Labor, Norco Farm Accountability, Living News
Cheri Shankar

When I found out about the true conditions under which egg-laying hens labor, it was easy to eliminate the not-so-Incredible, Edible Egg from my diet.

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Ugly Death for Chickens

Cheri Shankar | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Anti-Cruelty, Proposition 2, Animals, Chickens, Woodchippers, Living News
Cheri Shankar

If you've accidentally sliced your finger while chopping tomatoes or something, you know how much it smarts, so imagine the agonizing pain these animals felt.

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A Beginner's Guide to City Chickens

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 10.25.2008 | Style

Read More: Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Chickens, Organic Food, Going Green, Green, Food, Green Living, Livestock Ordinances, Chicken Coop, Backyard Chickens, Omega Acids, Raising Chickens, Cage Free Eggs, Style News
Jenna Woginrich

Tired of paying five bucks for cage-free eggs? Want an organic source of protein right in your own backyard? Well, a lot of folks feel the same way: their answer's a backyard flock of chickens.

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The Forgotten Extinction: Heritage Livestock

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Chickens, Rare Breed Livestock, Cows, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Going Green, Green, Conservation, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

Due to the assembly line style of meat production, the animals we eat have dwindled to a small number of industrial-strength breeds.

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Export This!

Megan Shank | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Chickens, Beijing Olympics, Hello Kitty, China Automobile, Disney, Cell Phones and Radiation, China, Pepsico, Colgate, Strange Chinese Products, Business News
Megan Shank

Most companies innovating in China naturally target the massively growing market right outside their research centers. Here is a list of popular Chinese products that won't ever successfully export.

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5 Ways to Turn Your Place into an Organic Farm

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Homestead, Chickens, Gardening, Green Living, Organic Food, Compost, Going Green, Green News
Jenna Woginrich

Here are a few ways you can bring the organic farm into your own home or apartment, and with soaring food and fuel prices, there are few excuses not to look into easy ways to eat smarter.

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