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Meat Industry

Ninety Years On - Will the Feds Finally Break Up the Meat Monopoly?

Regina Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Regina Weiss

In 1919 the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported to President Woodrow Wilson on a months-long investigation that produced seven volumes of evide...

USDA Proposes Tougher Meat Industry Antitrust Rules

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

ST. LOUIS — The Obama administration on Friday proposed new antitrust rules for meat companies that reflect a willingness by the USDA to shift t...

Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...

Fighting the Big Lie of Mass Consumption

Natalia Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Natalia Rose

Keeping people employed is not a good enough reason to perpetuate the plunder of our precious resources. Convenience is not a good enough reason. Fear of change is not a good enough reason.

Nicolette Hahn Niman: A Vegetarian Ranchers Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Tara Lohan

Part personal narrative and part investigative journalism, her Righteous Porkchop is a much-needed addition to the conversation about what should be on our plates these days.

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

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | 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 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

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