Factory Farming

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Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Climate Change, Swine Flu, Vegan, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News

Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer Talks To Ellen About His New Book (VIDEO)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farming, Environmentalists, Eating Meat, Agriculture, Parenting, New Books, Global Warming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Bestsellers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ellen Degeneres, Foer Eating Animals, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Books, Farming, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen Degeneres today about his new book, Eating Animals, which uncovers the horrible world of factory farming. (Check...

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Natalie Portman, Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Books, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Natalie Portman Vegan, Natalie Portman Vegetarian, Portman, Jonathan Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Animal Rights, Books, Agriculture, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, New Books, New Nonfiction, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, H1n1, Jonathan Safran Foer, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com Natalie Portman Jonathan Safran Foers Eat 334 407, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman: Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Read More At: Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Aaron-Gross/Jonathan-Safran-Foers-con_b_333698.Html, Safran Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News

Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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Animal All-Star

Michael Markarian | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Ben Byrom, Factory Farming, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Animals, Youth Activism, Puppy Mills, Politics News

14-year-old Ben Byrom has volunteered for groups like Animal Acres and the Animal Protection and Rescue League, and has contacted local politicians to help the seal pups and their mothers of La Jolla.

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The Week's Top Animal Causes! (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jonathan Harris | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Slidepoll, Drought, Cage Free Eggs, Factory Farming, Elephants, Animals, Monkeys, Impact News

We all love animals, but how much time is there to devote to all of their causes? Between saving whales, pigs, chickens, dolphins, rhesus monkeys, wea...

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International House of Pain for Egg-Laying Hens

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Humane Society of the United States, Factory Farming, Humane Society, Factory Farms, Food, Battery Cages, Animals, Green News

Animal welfare should be part of the Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio for any major corporation, and increasingly, companies are heeding the call.

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107 and Counting

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farming, Animals, Puppy Mills, Dogfighting, Cockfighting, Legislation, State Legislature, Green News

The Pennsylvania bill to prohibit large-scale puppy mill operators from crudely performing certain surgeries on dogs without anesthesia was the 107th new animal protection law passed by state legislatures in 2009.

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If Pets Are Protected From Animal Abuse, Why Not Farm Animals?

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Production, Farm Animals, Factory Farming, Farms, Animals, Industrial Agriculture, Animal Abuse, Green News

Most people know NFL quarterback Michael Vick jeopardized his career and went to prison for violating animal cruelty laws. What they likely don't real...

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Nick Kristof: Our Food Has No Soul

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Recalls, Farming, Factory Farming, Agriculture, Food Politics, Food Safety, Nicholas Kristof, Family Farming, Green News

On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It's not just t...

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Michael Vick: Black Sheep or Scapegoat on Animal Rights?

Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Alex Pacheco, Factory Farming, Peta, Animal Rights, Michael Vick Animals, Michael Vick Eagles, Michael Vick, Ingrid Newkirk, Paws, Green News

All of us who eat meat, attend rodeos, circuses, zoos and horse races and yet hand Michael Vick the bill for more systemic animal abuses in our society may find ourselves needing another chance one day, too.

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14 Sickened In Colorado With Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Burgers, With a Side of Flame Retardants

Grist | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farmed Beef, Salmonella Outbreak, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Meat Production, Meat Industry, Food Politics, Food, Green News

Here's the latest: In Colorado, 14 people have fallen ill from hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistent salmonella, the Boulder newspaper Dail...

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Chew On This, Chipotle!

Carolynn Carreño | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Carolynn Carreno, Food Inc, Chipotle, Humanely-Raised Beef, Food Politics, Animal Slaughter, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Food-Inc-Film, Impact of Eating Meat, Green News

In Southern California, Chipotle resorts to using meat from cows that must be fork-lifted to slaughter because they're too sick to even walk.

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Vote With Your Fork!

Linda Buzzell | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Factory Farming, Food Inc., Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Farmers Markets, Food, Ecotherapy, Green News

Every purchase of genuinely organic, local and/or sustainably grown food is a contribution to a grower who's doing the right thing

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How Pork Rinds Are Made (VIDEO)

Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Pork, How Pork Rinds Are Made, Industrial Food System, Factory Farming, Pork Rinds, Pork Production, Prok Ring Factory, Food, Green News

In case you haven't gotten enough behind-the-scenes industrial food production footage from Food, Inc., we've got a video for you. Highlights include ...

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Reaping What We Sow: How Industrial Animal Farming is Contributing to the Risk of a Swine Flu Pandemic

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Avian Flu, Factory Farming, World Health Organization, Livestock, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Green News

Intensive farming systems -- with crowded animals, ventilation systems, and huge collections of manure -- make industrial poultry and swine operations into breeding grounds for a host of perilous diseases.

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Greed in the Seed: The "Inconvenient Truth" of How Food Gets to Your Table Revealed in Food, Inc.

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Farming, Michael Pollan, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Healthy, Health, Vegan, Economic Crisis, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Eating, Food Inc, Sustainable Farming, Meat, Wellness, Eric Schlosser, Living News

Food, Inc. is a film whose time has come. With the economic meltdown and the change at the White House, people are demanding more transparency and accountability from those in charge.

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Reclaiming America, Bite by Bite

Isabel Cowles | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Cafos, Factory Farming, Local Food, Eric Schlosser, Inc., Food, Michael Pollan, Green News

The food industry has shifted from a broad network of producers and consumers towards a handful of corporate giants that control food culture not only in the grocery store, but also on the farm and on Capitol Hill.

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Swine Flu Transferrable Through Raw Pork

Grist | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Factory Farming, Eating Matters, Swine Flu, Food, Cafos, Meat, Raw Pork, Green News

"Meat from sick pigs or pigs found dead should not be processed or used for human consumption under any circumstances," Jorgen Schlundt, director of W...

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Not Swine Flu, Not H1N1 Virus -- Introducing Factory Farm Flu 1

John DeCock | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Agribiz, Factory Farming, Cafos, Swine Flu, Cafo, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Meat, H1n1, Green News

The name Factory Farm Flu 1 is less than accurate; many diseases have been transmitted from animals to humans by Confined Animal Feeding Operations. But we have to start somewhere.

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Something Bigger Than Phil: An Agnostic Looks Up During the Swine Flu Outbreak

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mexico City, Swine Flu, Geneva Conventions, Bernard Madoff, Factory Farming, Living News

A few weeks ago, my partner and I were watching The Ten Commandments, as we always do during the Passover holiday. It's a fabulous bit of spectacle, i...

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California Dreamin'

Michael Markarian | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eggs, Dean Florez, Factory Farming, California, Jared Huffman, Animals, Dairy, Agriculture, Politics News

Animal advocates know that last November's overwhelming passage of Proposition the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, was a watershed moment for the cause and a marker for our progress.

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Moving Forward for Farm Animals

Erin Williams | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, California, Animlas, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Proposition 2, Animal Slaughter, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Green News, Animla Rights, Green Policy, Living News

In 2008, Americans sent an unmistakable signal to Big Agribusiness that we will not tolerate the kinds of animal cruelty that had become standard. In 2009, let's work to accomplish even more.

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