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Are You Eating In The Matrix?

Darya Pino | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Fast Food, Corn, Health, Food, Food Policy, Diet, The Matrix, Industrial Agriculture, Soy, Living News
Darya Pino

Unplugging from the industrial food Matrix does not need to happen all at once, but you can extract yourself from it eventually. The first step is starting to see it clearly.

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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
Kerry Trueman

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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Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, John Kerry, World Bank, United Nations, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Agribusiness, Climate Change, Gmo, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

Even though research concludes that industrial agriculture is one of the major contributors to global warming, neither international nor U.S. domestic policies are adequately addressing this sector.

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It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Issue 2, Animal Welfare, Election Day, H1n1, Swine Flu, Public Health, Factory Farms, Food Safety, E. Coli, Food-Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

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No Impact Food Day Q&A With Colin Beavan

Kerry Trueman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Colin Beavan, No Impact Week, No Impact Man, Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Agriculture, Locavore, No Impact Project, Green News
Kerry Trueman

The No Impact Project week's in full swing, and those of us who've signed on are taking a closer look at our carbon "foodprint." I asked Colin to tell us more about his adventure in ecological eating.

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Schwarzenegger Saves Cow Tails, Bans "Tail Docking"

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Schwarzenegger, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Tail Docking, Humane Society, California Politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Industrial Agriculture, Politics News

FRESNO, Calif. — California cows are the first in the nation with the legal right to swat flies as nature intended now that Gov. Arnold Schwarze...

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What Can Danish Hogs Teach Us About Antibiotics?

Laura Rogers | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Antibiotics, Pamta, Congress, Pork, Industrial Agriculture, Denmark, Health, Pew Charitable Trust, Laura Rogers, Health Care, Living News
Laura Rogers

Denmark's ban on the routine use of antibiotics on food animal farms is a success. The United States has an effective model to draw upon when it comes to protecting public health.

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Can Organic Food Feed The World? Michael Pollan Answers

Grist | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Agriculture, Industrial Agriculture, Michael Pollan, Food Politics, Green News

In response to a question about whether we can really feed the world without industrialized ag (ah yes, a perennial), Pollan pointed out that we're no...

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Reflections On The Industrial Agriculture Legacy Of Norman Borlaug

Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Norman Borlaug, Green Revolution, Industrial Agriculture, Food Politics, Agriculture, Green News

Guest post by Tom Philpott From Grist.org In the early 1940s, Mexico was a fraught region for U.S. geopolitical strategists. Not so long before--1939...

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Michael Pollan Says Healthcare Reform Will Fail Unless We Change The Way We Eat

Grist | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Fast Food, Michael Pollan, Anti-Soda Ad Campaign, Food Politics, Green News, Npr, Health Care Reform, Big Ag, Industrial Agriculture, Health Care, Health Care Industry, Food Industry, Green News

First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we h...

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Supergreen Me?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: McDonald's, Green Certification, Industrial Agriculture, Greenwashing, Green News
Linda Buzzell

Trick question: if Monsanto or a coal company put up a few solar panels on the roof of their corporate headquarters, would that get them certified as "green"?

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Do Corporate Giants Own Your Favorite Organic Label?

DivineCaroline | Brie Cadman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Organic Food, Industrial Agriculture, Green Politics, Corporate America, Corporations, Organic, Green News

As the market for organic and natural foods has dramatically increased over the past few decades, and large megastores like Walmart and Costco have go...

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Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine

Timothy LaSalle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Atrazine, Water, Diabetes, Pollution, Organic, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Timothy LaSalle

Even atrazine's advocates do not deny the toxicity of the chemical outright -- it is, in fact, a substance created to kill. The legal pollution in our water has unacceptable human consequences.

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Green News Report - August 27, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Fracking, Dairy, Green News, Salmonella, Green News Report, Hydraulic-Fracturing, Mpg, Atrazine, Water, Africa, Electric Cars, Oil, Cash for Clunkers, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Happy Anniversaries -- sort of; The Politics of "Fracking"; How about some weed-killer in your drinking water?... PLUS: Another sad loss for the environment... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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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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Oklahoma Attorney General Takes on Big Poultry, Highlighting Unsustainability of Industrial Agriculture

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Fertilizer, Farming, Waterways, Oklahoma, Agricultural Pollution, Drew Edmondson, Food Safety, Runoff, Pollution, Industrial Agriculture, Cafos, Dead Zones, Green News
Paula Crossfield

I needn't remind you that Oklahoma is a stronghold for climate change deniers like Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe. But Oklahoma could be poised to redeem itself, taking on the unsustainability of industrial agriculture.

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Making Sure Our Antibiotics Work

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, House of Representatives, Superbugs, Mrsa, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Agribusiness, Industrial Agriculture, Pamta, Politics News
Rep. Louise Slaughter

We are losing the ability to treat human infections and diseases because we have misused one of the greatest scientific products ever created.

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Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap

Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Food, Lobbyists, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Food System, Obesity, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Rob Smart

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.

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Thinking Outside the Box on Health Care Reform

Barry Sears | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Diet Tips, Dieting, Corn, Health, Big Corn, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Diet, Health Care, Industrial Agriculture, Living News
Barry Sears

With all the rhetoric about health care reform, no one seems to have asked the question, "Why are Americans so sick in the first place?"

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It Stinks to High Heaven

Javier Sierra | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Smithfield, Employee Free Choice Act, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Mexico, Hispanics, Hispanics and the Environment, Sierra Club, Latinos and the Environment, Cafos, Nafta, Environment, Veracruz, H1n1, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Javier Sierra

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.

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Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Smithfield Foods, Swine Flu Outbreak, Swine Flu, Cafo, Factory Farms, Larry Pope, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Pork, H1n1, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

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...

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The Politics of a Potential Pandemic: From Sebelius to Smithfield

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Swine Flu, Senator McConnell, Politics, Mexico, Water Pollution, Industrial Agriculture, Kathleen Sebelius, Green, World, Senator Reid, Political News, Department of Homeland Security, Contained Animal Feeding Operations, Green News, Disease, Centers for Disease Control, Water, Health and Human Services, Panedemic, Swine Flu Pandemic, Flu Pandemic, Politics News
Josh Nelson

GOP obstruction is literally interfering with the functioning of the Federal government during a time of crisis.

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Young Agrarians: Digging The Future

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Scott Stringer, Sustainable Agriculture, Thomas Jefferson, Greenhorns, Industrial Agriculture, Real Food Challenge, Green News
Kerry Trueman

We need to make growing food a prestigious profession again, as it was when our country was founded.

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It's Time to Take the Pharma Out of Farming

Steve Ells | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Food Matters, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Farm Animals, Chipotle, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Animals, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Steve Ells

Antibiotic use is not a prerequisite to life on the farm, but rather a threat to life itself. Let's preserve these drugs for the sick animals and humans who need them.

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Agribiz Biostitute Declares Fresh Healthy Food A Menace

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Organic Farming, Alice Waters, Henry I. MIller, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Welcome to another steaming poo-poo platter of Agribriz propaganda served up by a biostitute whose foundation is fossil-fueled by Archer Daniels Midland, Exxon, Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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