May 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Factory Farms

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Green News Report: December 28, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Green Jobs, Epa, Christianity Environmentalism, Factory Farms, Regulation, Contaminated Water, Pipelines, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Evangelicals, Marines, Rising Sea Level, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Africa, Christmas, Hexavalent Chromium, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Farming, Toxic Water, California, Research, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, European Union, Global Temperature, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Ocean Acidification, James Hansen, Climate Legislation, Endangered Species, BP Oil Spill, Ethanol, Extreme Weather, Green News

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Green News Report: December 23, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Green Jobs, Epa, Christianity Environmentalism, Regulation, Contaminated Water, Pipelines, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Evangelicals, Rising Sea Level, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, US Senate, Christmas, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Toxic Water, California, Research, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, European Union, Global Temperature, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Ocean Acidification, Endangered Species, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Ethanol, Extreme Weather, Factory Farms, Marines, Africa, Hexavalent Chromium, Farming, James Hansen, Green News

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Eco Etiquette: Can Fur Be Green?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Brushtail Possum, Fur, Faux Fur, Vegan Fur, Skin Trade, Green News, Green Advice, Eco Fur, Factory Farms, Fake Fur, Green Living, Peta, Nutria, Fur Farms, Formaldehyde, Green News

I'm not saying it's OK to wear fur, but don't give people the stink-eye for wearing fur if you're still eating factory-farmed meat. Or driving a car with leather seats. Or wearing Uggs.

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Humane Society Exposes Pig Breeding Horrors -- But It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Sows, Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, Sweden, Factory Farming, Hogs, Hsus, Factory Farms, Cafo, Smithfield, Pork, Green News

Pork shoulder at my local supermarket costs 99 cents a pound, but zucchini cost $1.99 a pound. Why? Because American factory farms mass produce swine with such efficiency that the cash value of a pig's life has dwindled downward.

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HSUS Video Shows Why Smithfield Must Recommit to Crate Phase-Out Timeline

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Virginia, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Farm Animals, Smithfield Foods, Undercover Investigation, Pigs, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Temple Grandin, Pork, Gestation Crates, Green News

Getting rid of gestation crates is the most important reform the pork industry could implement at this time.

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Dead Cow Walking: National Hamburger Day Is a Celebration That Shouldn't Happen

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Read More: Factory Farms, Hamburgers, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Animal Rights, Cows, Hamburg, Mad Cow Disease, Diet, Meat, Beef, Denver News

Who we eat is a serious moral question. When you're eating meat you're eating misery. And, most likely, you're also eating filth and disease.

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Where's the Beef? Cancun Climate Conference Should Take Animal Agriculture Seriously

Mia MacDonald | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Animal Agriculture, Sustainabie Agriculture, Global South, Equity, Cancun, Livestock, Climate Change, Sustainability, Food, India, China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Factory Farms, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Meat, Deforestation, Cancun Climate Summit, Green News

Continuing to marginalize animal agriculture in international debates over climate policy means forfeiting a crucial opportunity to reduce global greenhouse gasses.

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Hijacking Humane

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Chicken, Chickens, Animal Welfare, Perdue Farms, Humanely Raised, Slaughter, Factory Farms, Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, Temple Grandin, Class Action Lawsuit, Harvestland, Animal Rights, Usda, Green News

Would you consider animals to be "humanely raised" if they were forced to spend their lives suffering from chronic leg problems and crippling lameness only to be later dipped into an electrified vat of water?

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More Than Pardons: A Thanksgiving Wish for Turkeys

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Factory Farming, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Poultry, Mongols-Undercover-Investigation, Thanksgiving 2010, Investigation, Factory Farms, Food Safety, Green News

Today's industrially produced birds have been selectively bred for enormous body mass. Many of them cannot stand or walk after a few months of life. They are not healthy animals, and they suffer chronic pain.

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Weekly Mulch: What's in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and Industrial Estrogen

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger It won't be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. "We've had the sa...

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If You Care About Farm Animals: Eat Them.

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Organic Food, Farmers Markets, Factory Farms, Food, Green Living, Cruelty to Animals, Animals, Green News

I was a vegetarian for nearly a decade, something I decided to do in college when I became aware of the mistreatment and cruelty in industrial agricu...

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Wealthy Ag Lobbies Cry Poor

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Farm Bill, Rice, Wheat, Lobbying, Corn, Lobbyists, Cotton, Factory Farms, Big Ag, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Industrial Agriculture, K Street, Home News

The idea that agribusiness lobbyists don't have the funds to properly "defend" their continuing cornucopia of taxpayer dollars does not even come close to passing the smell test.

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Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century?

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Chet Culver, Monty Branstad, Cafos, 2010 Elections, Iowa Govenor Chet Culver, 2010 Election, Dead Zone, Terry Branstad, Iowa, Factory Farms, Environment, Green News

Iowans can no longer afford to have a governor, or any elected official, partying like it's 1999 on the environment.

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Green News Report: October 7, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hungarian ...

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Green News Report: September 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Salmon, Moratorium, Capitol Hill, Oil Sands, Oil Spill Response, Australia, Epa, Factory Farms, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mary Landrieu, Mudflats, Coal, Offshore Drilling, Proposition 23, Mark Begich, Mountaintop Removal, Big Oil, Extinction, Climate Science, James Cameron, California Air Resources Board, Genetically Modified Food, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Vatican, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, John McCain, Koalas, California, White House Oil Spill Commission, Environmentalists, Avatar, Lobbying, Biochar, Nissan Leaf, Energy Policy, Appalachia, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Endangered Species, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Wildlife, Green News

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Cruelties Destined for Condemnation

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Factory Farming, Animal Abuse, Slavery, Factory Farms, Washington Post, Industrial Agriculture, Impact News

None of us should be bystanders as animal cruelty persists. By joining in the fight, we can hasten its demise.

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Will The Food Safety Bill Make Food Safe?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Organic Food, Industrial Food, Contamination, Nutrition, Factory Farms, Food Safety, Salmonella, s510, Health, Food Safety Laws, Healthy Living News

The FDA enforcement pattern has been to ignore, placate or make a deal with the giants, and then turn around and pick on the growers it can outsize and intimidate -- the medium and small ones.

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Factory Farm v. Historic Preservation

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: History, Japanese-American-Internment-Camps, Cafo, Factory Farms, Racism, Maureen Dowd, Historic Preservation, Japan, Idaho, National Parks, Home News

Idaho judge ignores a centennial affront to the descendants of Japanese farmers Traveling to a WWII internment camp Maureen Dowd's New York Times co...

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Green News Report: September 23, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Nasa, Capitol Hill, Oil Sands, Oil Spill Response, Factory Farms, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Fda, Offshore Drilling, cop16, Gulf Seafood, Clinton Global Initiative, Egg Recall, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Solar Panels, Food Politics, Gop, Genetically Modified Food, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, UN Climate Change, Aquabounty, Jack DeCoster, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Gmos, California, Environmentalists, Wind Energy, Energy Policy, Coral Reefs, Bush Administration, Frankenfood, Organic Food, BRAD BLOG, Water, Mining, US Marines, Noaa, Green News, Todd Stern, Hillary Clinton, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Unfccc, China, US Navy, Green News

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Impact of Factory Farming, Food Choices Again In Focus

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Eggs, Bill Clinton, Salmonella Outbreak, Chickens, Factory Farming, Egg Recall, Vegan, Factory Farms, Cage Free Eggs, Salmonella, Fda, Battery Cages, Home News

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted a hearing on this summer's massive egg recall, and witnesses included the owners of the facto...

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Green News Report: September 14, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Sustainable Design, Fracking, Oil Spill Response, Australia, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Obama Administration, Globalization, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Coal, Pipeline, Offshore Drilling, Eggs, Infrastructure, Egg Recall, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Department of Energy, Usda, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Walrus, California, Nanotechnology, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pakistan, Corn, Electric Vehicles, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Arctic, Prop 16, Green Infrastructure, Organic Food, South Korea, BRAD BLOG, Peak Oil, California Prop 23, San Bruno Fire, Green News, Natural Gas, Climate Legislation, Alaska, Ethanol, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News

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Green News Report: September 9, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Nasa, Sustainable Design, Oil Spill Response, Australia, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Globalization, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Infrastructure, Proposition 23, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Zen, California, Biofuels, Corn, Boulder, Aviation, Transocean, Barack Obama, Green Infrastructure, Ocean Dead Zones, Peak Oil, BRAD BLOG, South Korea, California Prop 23, Halliburton, Green News, Wildfires, Climate Legislation, Ethanol, Chamber of Commerce, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News

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PHOTOS: Almond, Hemp, Rice, Raw And More: Your Guide To Milk

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Conventional Milk, Rice Milk, Milk, Factory Farms, Grass-Fed, Almond Milk, Cafos, Hemp Milk, Health, Antibiotics, Raw Milk, Organic Milk, Rbgh, Health Benefits, Slidepollajax, Rgbh, Bovine Growth Hormone, Green News

For something so traditional, so normal, so American, milk has spurred a huge battle among the food conscious. Choosing your milk has become a stateme...

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