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New York Times Writers Speak up for Chickens, Chimps

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Eggs, Research, Chimpanzee, Egg Recall, Factory Farms, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Cage Free Eggs, Salmonella, Animal Research, Nih, Industrial Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

Today, the New York Times covers two of the pitched debates in our society about animals -- the controversy over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research and the industrial confinement of laying hens in cages for egg production.

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Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions on the Border, Pawlenty Screws MN on Sex Ed

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Recalls, RH Reality Check, Misoprostol, Factory Farms, Salmonella, The Nation, Care2, Minnesota, Alternet, E. Coli, Black Market, Reproductive Health, Agribusiness, Tim Pawlenty, Cargill Meat Solutions, Bacteria, Meat, Pro-Choice, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions on the Border, Pawlenty Screws MN on SexEd by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Women on along U.S.-Mexico bord...

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What The Egg Recall Tells Us About The Horrors Of Industrial Food

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Factory Farms, Egg Recall, Food Politics, Smarter Ideas, Green News

There's nothing like a good salmonella outbreak to inspire FDA inspectors to deliver blunt, graphic reports from inside the industrial food system. Wh...

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FDA Inspection of Egg Factory Farms Mirrors HSUS Findings

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Eggs, Iowa, Salmonella Outbreak, Rose Acre Farms, Dalai Lama, Hillandale Farms, Undercover Investigation, Egg Recall, Wright County Egg, Rembrandt Enterprises, Factory Farms, New York Times, Cage Free Eggs, Salmonella, Battery Cages, Fda, Home News
Wayne Pacelle

The assurances from the egg industry that its operators maintain safe and clean facilities, treat animals humanely, and do it all at low cost are a charade. The eggs may seem cheap, but the costs are passed on in terms of health costs.

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The Egg Recall Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Farming, Egg Recall, Poultry, Factory Farms, Black Farmers, Salmonella, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, National-Black-Farmers-Association, Home News
John W. Boyd Jr.

The people who are least surprised to hear of the appalling conditions that led to the egg recall that began on August 13 were my fellow small and mid-sized farmers.

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Rotten Inside and Out

Gene Baur | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Factory Farms, Animal Cruelty, Salmonella, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Egg Recall, Animal Abuse, Healthy Living News
Gene Baur

The recent recall of half a billion eggs contaminated with salmonella is another reminder about how harmful industrial animal farming is. Thousand...

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Green News Report: August 26, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: David Koch, Oil Spill Response, Helium, Lobbyists, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Pakistan Floods, Sustainable Agriculture, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Offshore Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Tennessee, Climate Science, Vladimir Putin, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Global Warming, Bpa, Bp, Pakistan, Nuclear Power, Salmonella, Open Secrets, Transocean, Ocean Dead Zones, BRAD BLOG, Halliburton, Charles Koch, Noaa, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, China, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Total Recall: Farm Animal Cruelty, Public Health Connected

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Iowa, Animal Cruelty, Salmonella Outbreak, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Welfare, California, Cows, Egg Recall, Public Health, Factory Farms, Salmonella, Cage Free Eggs, Battery Cages, Meat Recall, Home News
Wayne Pacelle

The lifelong extreme confinement of laying hens in tiny cages is not just inhumane, it's also been linked to human disease. Every one of the eggs recently recalled for Salmonella came from hens confined in cages.

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Green News Report: August 24, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chile, David Koch, Oil Spill Response, Lobbyists, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Obama Administration, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Green News Report, China, Eggs, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Tennessee, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Global Warming, Bp, Nuclear Power, Salmonella, Open Secrets, Ed Markey, Ocean Dead Zones, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Charles Koch, Noaa, Green News, Koch Industries, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Chilean Miners, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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Green News Report: August 19, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Russia, Floods, Antarctica, Oil Spill Response, American Petroleum Institute, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, Factory Farms, Russia Heat Wave, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Pollution, Eggs, Tar Sands, Drought, Indonesia, Don Blankenship, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Astroturf, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Interior Department, Bp, Massey Energy, Ipcc, Opec, Pakistan, Salmonella, Mine Safety, Coral Reefs, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Oil Prices, Green News, Climate Legislation, Food Recall, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Michigan Oil Spill, Mark Morford, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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You Are What You Eat: Are You Comfortable With That?

Isabel Cowles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Factory Farms, Sustainable Farming, Humane Farming, Animal Abuse, Humane-Animal-Slaughter, Home News
Isabel Cowles

How much do we need to learn about factory farms before we stop supporting them? America's attachment to the high protein diet is little more than a reflection of the economic clout of the meat and dairy industry.

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One Hundred Animals In A Bun

Ari Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Hugo's, Factory Farms, Food Safety, Vegetarian, Animals, Hamburgers, Vegan, Eating Meat, Home News
Ari Solomon

Why do we accept Frankenfoods as American trademarks? I don't find any particular pride in hamburgers. Seriously, it's time to update this traditional American staple.

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Momentum Against Factory Farms Makes Headlines

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Olivera Egg Ranch, California, Factory Farming, Ohio, Factory Farms, Cage Free Eggs, Proposition 2, Manure, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pollution, Lawsuit, Fur, Eggs, Ted Strickland, Royal Caribbean, New York Times, Battery Cages, Carnival Cruise Lines, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

The Humane Society of the United States announced that a federal judge has ordered a trial in a federal legal case we brought against a polluting egg factory farm in the Central Valley of California.

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You Are What You Invest: Achieving Joyful Sustainability (AUDIO)

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Factory Farms, Topsoil, Sustainable Agriculture, Slow Money, Organic Food, Woody Tasch, Green Living, Money, Socially-Conscious-Investing, Financial, Sustainability, Video, Healthy Living News
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

We are living and spending in a way that can no longer be supported by the earth. We've exhausted her. It hurts the beauty in our lives and the beauty of the planet.

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Meathead To Go Meatless: Call Me Potatohead

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food News, Culinary, Vegetarian, Barbecue, Beef, Vegan, Factory Farms, Ovo-Lacto, Cooking, Party, Bbq, Food, Goldwyn, Eating, Grilling, Cookout, Slidepollajax, Meathead, Barbeque, Dinner, Steroids, Cafo, Hormones, Antibiotic, Union of Concerned Scientists, Home News
Meathead

Will I change the world? No chance. But this meatlover's voice is one more in a growing chorus and perhaps together we can change farming in the US.

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Putting Bison on Feedlots: Unnatural, Unnecessary, Unsafe

Andrew Gunther | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Factory Farms, Food Safety, Feedlots, E. Coli, Bison, Health, Bison Feedlots, Yellowstone, Buffalo, Slaughter, Rocky Mountain, Buffalo Guys, Natures Rancher, Healthy Living News
Andrew Gunther

Before this recall most people would have thought of bison as a safe, healthy meat from animals roaming the ranges of the West. We can now see all too well that this isn't the case.

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Green News Report: July 27, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Floods, Tony Hayward, Oil Spill Response, Republican Obstructionism, Chicago, Factory Farms, Filibuster, Canada, Green News Report, Water Crisis, Bob Dudley, Tar Sands, Kansas, Netroots Nation, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Global Warming, Bp, Alternative Energy, Epa, Senate, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Water, Iowa, Green News, Wildfires, Harry Reid, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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Green News Report: July 22, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp, Alaska, Oil Spill Response, Bobby Jindal, Lobbying, Alternative Energy, Factory Farms, Green News Report, Energy Efficiency, Big Oil, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Water, Mining, Climate Science, Green News, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Global Warming Deniers, China, Global Warming, Kansas, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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

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American Factory Farming: You Owe It to the Animals to Watch This (Video)

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Factory Farming, Factory Farms, Factory Farming Cruelty, Animals Cruelty, Animal Factory Farming, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

I want to remind the American people where most of our meat, milk and eggs come from, and of the inhumane treatment of so many animals who sustain so our lives with their lives.

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Factory vs. Sustainable Pork Production: Two Videos, One Case for Transparency

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Factory Farms, Cafos, Industrial Agriculture, Food Politics, Pork, Pigs, Home News
Leslie Hatfield

If I'm going to eat something -- especially an animal product -- I want to know as much as I can about where it came from, what it ate, and how it was treated.

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Slaughter and the City

Ari Solomon | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Veganism, Factory Farms, Animal Slaughter, Michael Pollan, Meat, Humane Slaughter, Slow Food Movement, Locavore, Healthy Living News
Ari Solomon

I've noticed a new trend among urbanites. It goes something like this: city types read Michael Pollan, see Food Inc., or simply get intrigued by words...

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The Brutality of Factory Farms: An Inside Look (VIDEO)

John Robbins | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Factory Farm Cows, Animals, Animal Rights, Animal Abuse, Factory Farms, Video, Healthy Living News
John Robbins

Although genetically engineered bovine growth hormone is banned in many countries, including much of the European Union, it is today widely used in California's largest dairy operations.

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Editorializing for Animal Protection, Agricultural Progress

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Animal Cruelty, Farm Animals, Factory Farming, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Proposition 2, Gestation Crates, Center for Consumer Freedom, Puppy Mills, Agribusiness, Battery Cages, Animal Protection, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

The general answer for agriculture is that it cannot stand in place. It also cannot hope to gain the trust of consumers when it defends outright cruelty and abuse that the law should forbid.

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Thoughts on Cheese, Chores, and Harvesting Pigs at the Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm

James Frey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Reality Television, Farming, Small Business, Reality TV, Reality Show, The Fabulous Beekman Boys, Factory Farms, Small Farmers, Beekman 1802, Green News
James Frey

Episode five in week four of The Fabulous Beekman Boys. We see Porgie and Bess, the Beekman Pigs and learn they will be slaughtered soon. I don't want the pigs to go.

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Foie Gras Factory Farm Can't Duck HSUS Lawsuit

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Animal Factory, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Foie Gras, Clean Water Act, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Factory Farms, David Kirby, Pollution, Lawsuit, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

We have seen time and again that factory farmers' willful disregard for animal welfare often goes hand in hand with disregard for the environment, for workers' rights, and the rights of the unfortunate neighbors of these facilities.

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