In Morrison, more than 100 wells were polluted by agricultural runoff within a few months, according to local officials. As parasites and bacteria see...
washingtonpost.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
When you give antibiotics to animals meant to become food, however, you're ensuring that antibiotics end up in the food in low but constant doses. Tha...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Animal welfare should be part of the Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio for any major corporation, and increasingly, companies are heeding the call.
Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.
TIME | Bryan Walsh Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
We don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price o...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Obama to ban antibiotics?; Mining the Grand Canyon; Chevron refuses to pay for environmental damage; The bulb is back.... PLUS: Wal-Mart going green!
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green
When California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 2, banning the extreme confinement of animals on industrial factory farms, they sent the message loud and clear.
Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.
Tracy Hepler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green
Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
We've been blaming consumers for their desire to eat lots of meat as an excuse for the unsafe and inhumane practices at CAFOs, which contribute to environmental degradation, our healthcare crisis and impact the safety of our food.
Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy
"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.
Javier Sierra | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
The Mexican meat industry generates 130 million tons of fecal and urine matter each year, which often ends up in rivers and on coasts causing terrible environmental damage.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green
Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Tyson and Smithfield are probably breaking the law, and that law needs to be enforced.
John DeCock | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
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.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: Fires and bats and bears -- Oh My!; Congress to offer Cash For Clunkers; Some Democrats side with Republicans in stalling cli...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
Dr. Nestle: "My conclusion: the grilled chicken option is about marketing, not health. The proof? Oprah talked about it."
Paula Crossfield | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
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.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green
As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initia...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
We always knew that factory farms were a scar on humanity's conscience -- but now we know they are a scar on our health.
David Kirby | Posted 05.27.2009 | World
We do know that Mexican pigs with swine flu are being destroyed. And we know that Mexican lawmakers think that confined animal feeding operations are making people sick.
David Kirby | Posted 05.26.2009 | World
A deadly new influenza virus has managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans. How could this happen? There are several plausible explanations.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green
It seems that the New York Times, in its desperation to sell papers, fell into the trap of story building over truth-finding.
Erin Williams | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living
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.
Michael Markarian | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
When it comes to animal protection, more than a dozen federal agencies have a direct impact on the lives of millions of pets, farm animals, laboratory animals, and wildlife. It's time for change.
Cheri Shankar | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
There must be a reason that, generally speaking, meat is served headless. I think all of us feel squeamish when confronted with the whole of an animal that looks much the same dead and cooked as it did alive and well.
nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green