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Meat Safety

WATCH: Behind The Meat We Eat

Posted 12.19.2012 | Home

Last week, a massive beef investigation by the Kansas City Star gave us some insight into the major food safety issues facing Big Beef. Following the ...

Prozac in Poultry Is Better Than Penicillin

Michael Greger, M.D. | Posted 07.03.2012 | Healthy Living
Michael Greger, M.D.

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

USDA Proposes Cuts To Poultry Inspection

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.20.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department is proposing to reduce the number of government inspectors at poultry slaughter plants. Agriculture Secretar...

Culinary Artisanry, American Meat, and the Myth of Safety

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Elissa Altman

I've always been an exceptionally honest person, so when I flew home yesterday from a week sampling the most astonishingly fresh, utterly delicious...

School Lunches Wouldn't Meet Fast-Food Safety Standards

USA Today | Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Anthony DeBarros | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality o...

Inspectors Say Meat Safety Is Threatened

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

LOS ANGELES — Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-s...