The Forgotten Extinction: Heritage Livestock
Due to the assembly line style of meat production, the animals we eat have dwindled to a small number of industrial-strength breeds.
Due to the assembly line style of meat production, the animals we eat have dwindled to a small number of industrial-strength breeds.
The Sun | Vince Soodin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home
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 ...
Greenwash Brigade | Heidi Siegelbaum | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
What a riot! How complex is a story about: * The genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, somatotropin, trade name Posilac... * which is...
Reuters | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
TOKYO (Reuters) - The cast offs from snacking on cashews may help fight global warming caused by animals that belch methane. Tests in Japan have show...
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
It turns out that there is another greenhouse gas, methane, that shows promise for becoming the doomsday gas.
World Changing | Julia Steinberger | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green
A recent innovation from scientists in Australia and New Zealand offers hope for humans to continue our love affair with meat and dairy products. The ...
Elizabeth Bard | Posted 03.04.2008 | Living
In France, the Salon d'Agriculture is a huge event -- imagine fashion week, but with fuzzier chicks.
Elissa Altman | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living
Had the Humane Society not released the animal cruelty videos, would the practice of mass processing sick cattle into "food" have ever been questioned or brought to the fore?
Anna Lappé | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living
How has the beef industry gotten away with such disregard for animal welfare, human health, and the environment?
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living
Through the grainy lens of an undercover camera, the world can see the true origins of that burger, steak or Nike shoe.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living
Industrial livestock production relies on the systemic abuse of cows, pigs, chickens, and the workers who process them. When did Americans develop such a taste for torture, anyway?
CBS News | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
Undercover video shows sickened cows, too weak to walk, being jabbed with forklift blades, kicked, shocked and even sprayed in the face with powerful ...
Washington Post | Rick Weiss | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand ...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green