Meat Industry

Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

14 Sickened In Colorado With Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Burgers, With a Side of Flame Retardants

Grist | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green


Here's the latest: In Colorado, 14 people have fallen ill from hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistent salmonella, the Boulder newspaper Dail...

The Breathtaking Effects Of Cutting Back On Meat

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living


Kathy Freston

Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.

Your Diet has More Climate Change Impact than your Car

Penny Herscher | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green


Penny Herscher

The meat industry produces more carbon emissions than the auto industry.

The Weekly Pulse: Good News and Bad News Healthcare NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

In one of today's more bizarre health stories, we find tobacco giant Philip Morris likening itself to the NAACP in order to get out of paying compensation to smokers.

PETA Offers $1 Million For Lab Meat

AP | Posted 05.01.2008 | Living


LOS ANGELES — Animal rights activists are offering scientists a $1 million reward if they can produce commercially viable meat in a laboratory. ...