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Big Ag's Gifts for 2012

Andrew Gunther | Posted 03.01.2013 | Green
Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Big Ag, Pink Slime, Ractopamine, Sustainable Food, Lftb, Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Sustainability, Green News
Andrew Gunther

As the year comes to an end it's become a tradition of mine to write a note of gratitude to Big Ag for the many 'gifts' they've given us throughout the year that we didn't really want, need or -- in some cases -- didn't even know about. Here's my top 10 for 2012...

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'Pink Slime' Stokes Controversy

Posted 04.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Beef Products, Fast Food, Food Safety, Video, Pink Slime, Humane Society, Lftb, Politics News

By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely inv...

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Has LFTB Really Been in Our Beef for "20 Years" and Without Incident?

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 06.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Lean Finely Textured Beef, Ammonium Hydroxide, Beef Products Inc., Eldon Roth, Dennis Dougard, Food Safety, Salmonella, E. Coli, Lftb, Pink Slime, Michael Moss, Michael Moss Pink Slime, Pink Slime Beef Products, Home News
Bettina Elias Siegel

So the filler which is the subject of so much controversy has not been in our food supply for "20 years." But what about that claim by BPI and its supporters that the use of this filler has been without incident?

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The One Gold Medal We Don't Want to Win: U.S. Leads the Way in Breeding Antibiotic-Resistant Disease

Andrew Gunther | Posted 06.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Norway, E. Coli, Pink Slime, Lftb, World Health Organization, Olympics, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Citizen, Fda, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Growth Promoters, Home News
Andrew Gunther

We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world -- and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway.

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GOP Gov Wants Action On 'Smear Campaign' Against 'Pink Slime'

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 06.02.2012 | Politics
Read More: Lean Finely Textured Beef, Beef Products, Video, Terry Branstad Pink Slime, Terry Branstad, Pink Slime, Lftb, Politics News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad called Monday for a congressional investigation into how what he called "a smear campaign" against t...

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