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Reckless Claims That Hormonal Milk Is Safe

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Organic Milk, Fda, Cows, Cancer Prevention, Growth Hormones, Hormones, Rbst, Milk, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The rBST hormone is injected in about 20% of USA dairy cows to increase milk production. While the industry claims that it's safe for cows, and that the milk is safe for consumers, this is blatantly false.

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Greeley, Colorado To Convert Methane From Cattle Manure Into Energy

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 10.18.2009 | Denver

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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Name Your Cow, Get More Milk

David Becker | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Welfare, Dairy, Dairy-Farms, Cows, Sustainable Food, Milk, Sustainable Dairy, Green News
David Becker

"Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given a bit more one-to-one attention," explains Dr. Douglas of Newcastle University.

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In A Vegetarian World, What Happens To Cows?

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Vegetarian, Cows, Livestock, Food Politics, Sustainability, Reasons to Be a Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Methane, Vegetarian Awareness Month, Green News

A question to ponder during Vegetarian Awareness Month. A ridiculous question, you might say, yet it's one I get asked all the time. As if we're doing...

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The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Land O'Lakes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Peta, Cows, Dairy, Health, Vegan, Green News, Feminism, Green News
Ari Solomon

I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...

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PETA Video: Cows Suffer On Land O'Lakes-Supplying Farm (VIDEO)

Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Land O'Lakes, Dairy Farms, Cows, Peta, Impact News

PETA representatives have released a video comprised of footage taken during an undercover investigation of a Pennsylvania dairy farm that contracts t...

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The Truth About Eco-Friendly Milk

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Green-Farming, Eco Living, Organic Food, Cows, Green Eating, Milk, Eco-Friendly, Food, Green Living, Organic-Dairy, Food Politics, Green News

When it comes to finding milk that's green from the source, there are a handful of labels and acronyms that will help you discern green milk from its ...

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Publisher Judith Jones Sets Example WIth Grass-Fed Cows

nytimes.com | CHRISTINE MUHLKE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Critics, Judith Jones, Organic Farming, Farming, Grass-Fed, Organic Food, Cows, Grow Your Own Food, Local Food, Green News

Three years ago, [publisher Judith Jones] started raising cattle. Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they...

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Hundreds Of Cattle Make Their Yearly Move (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Slideshow, Bavarian Cattle Herding, Cattle, Cattleherding, Cows, Germany, Green News

On Friday, German cattle-drivers herded hundreds of beautifully decorated cattle over the Bavarian Mountains. The ceremonial cattle drive takes place ...

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Jason Linkins

CNN Reporter Assists In Birth Of Calf

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Video, Cows, Animal Husbandry, Cnn, Media News

It's Friday in August, and people like animals, so via Media Monitor Jon, here's a video of a CNN reporter, Deborah Feyerick, assisting in the birth o...

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Farmers Cut Cow Emissions By Altering Diets

AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Cow, Cows, Cow Emissions, Green News

COVENTRY, Vt. — Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' d...

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Obama Administration Refuses To Clamp Down On Cow Burps

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 07.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Administration, Cows, Cow Burps, Methane, Green News

WASHINGTON — One contributor to global warming _ bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants _ is being left out of efforts by...

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Cow Escapes Massachusetts To In New Hampshire Mud

AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Massachusetts, Cow Jailbreak, Cows, Animals, New Hampshire, Green News

NASHUA, N.H. — Two wayward cows decided to abandon their Massachusetts farm and walk at least five miles into New Hampshire, generating 911 call...

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Change In Diet Could Curb Cows' Carbon Emissions

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Cows, Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Cow Burps, Animals, Cow Farts, Green News

Libby, age 6, and the 74 other dairy cows on Guy Choiniere's farm here are at the heart of an experiment to determine whether a change in diet will he...

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Cow Dung Bricks: Indonesia's Greener Building Solution

Springwise | Richard Friedman | May 22, 2009 8:59 PM | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Cow Dung Bricks, Indonesia, Cows, Green Building, Animals, Green Design, Green News

The Indonesian organization was set up earlier this year to tackle the problem of excessive waste in farming areas. From this, the ecological and econ...

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Cow Burps, Not Cow Farts, Threatening Planet

The American Prospect | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Cows, Climate Change, Environment, Cow Burps, Pollution, Cow Farts, Global Warming, Methane, Green News

That basically means that the potent methane emissions from cows -- emissions that contribute quite a lot to climate change -- are the product of burp...

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Sacred Bull

Tom Christopher | Posted 05.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Cows, Sustainable Food, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Footprint, Agriculture, Ontario, Vegetables, Green News
Tom Christopher

Transport in bulk by rail or ship is more energy efficient than moving foods in small quantities from farm to market by truck.

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Hannah Montana: The Movie (3rd draft, by Tom Stoppard)

Spencer Green | Posted 05.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Horses, Walt Disney, Hannah Montana, Tom Stoppard, Cows, Existence, Movies, Miley Cyrus, Comedy News
Spencer Green

Hannah: Staring at these grazing ungulates, I question my own identity. Are they better off masticating the dew-flecked herbage below them, unaware of the charnelhouse that awaits?

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Australian Researchers Strive To Make Cows Belch Less

AFP | Posted 03.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Australia, Cows, Pollution, Methane, Green News

In August, Australian environment scientists said it would be better if citizens ate Kangaroo meat: Removing seven million cattle and 36 million shee...

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India: Cow Urine Soft Drink, Gau Jal, To Be Launched As Coke Alternative

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Cow Urine, Hindu, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Hinduism, India, Cows, Cow Urine Soft Drink, Asia, Cow Beverage, Pepsi, World News

India's Hindu nationalist movement is working on creating a new soft drink to rival Coca-Cola and Pepsi. The main ingredient? Cow urine. The Time...

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Cow Struck By Lightning Survives

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Cow Struck by Lightning, Cow Survives Lightning Strike, Extreme Weather, Cows, Animals, Cow Survives Lighting, Lightning Cow, Green News

HOLY cow! This hunk of beef is believed to have been struck by lightning - and somehow survived. And we're not cooking this up. It's entirely feasi...

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Proposed Cow "Gas" Tax Angers Farmers

AP | BOB JOHNSON | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Other Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Cows, The Rising Cost of Gas, Greenhouse Gases, Belching, Farting, Farmers, Pigs, Hogs, Animals, Global Warming, Green News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if the federal government decides...

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Fat Cows and Thin Cows

Javier Sierra | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Latinos, Green Jobs, Bible, Javier Sierra, Exxon Mobil, Renewable Energy, Obama, Clean Energy, Sierra Club, Latino Voters, Cows, Environment, Hispanic Voters, Plug-in Hybrids, Solar Power, Great Depression, Green News
Javier Sierra

President-Elect Barack Obama owes his title not only to quite possibly the best presidential campaign in history, but also to the Latino vote. More than two thirds of us voted for him.

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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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Sex With Cows: Brazilian Man Is Cow Casanova, Violates 400

The Sun | Vince Soodin | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Beastiality, Cows, Brazil, Home News

A TWISTED oddball with an insatiable animal fetish was arrested after allegedly having sex with 400 cows. The 53-year-old cleaner told police he did ...

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