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Antibiotic Resistance: Consider the Source

Andrew Gunther | Posted 11.19.2011 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, World Health Organization, E.Coli, National Pork Producers Council, MRSA Meat, Mrsa, Antibiotics, E. Coli, Home News
Andrew Gunther

When it comes to matters of global human health, surely honesty and transparency must always prevail? Unfortunately, history tells us otherwise.

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Would You Pay $.05 More per Lb to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Pigs?

David Becker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Animals Antibiotics, National Pork Producers Council, Beef, Katie Couric, Green News
David Becker

If we eliminated the use of antibiotics used in pigs for non-therapeutic uses the price of pork would go up just $.05 per pound. What price would you put on your health?

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Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: National Debt, House Agriculture Committee, Bailout, National Pork Producers Council, Swine Flu, Ohio, Factory Farms, Usda, Pork, H1n1, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.

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Pork Lobbyists Rush To Put Lipstick On Pig Amid Swine Flu Fears

Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Pork Lobbyists, Pork Producers, National Pork Producers Council, Pork Producers and Swine Flu, Swine Flu, Pork Lobbying, Swine Flu Scare, Pork and Swine Flu, Home News

It was Day 7 of the great swine flu outbreak, and inside the eighth-floor conference room in a concrete hulk of an office building on Capitol Hill, th...

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Making Sense of the Muckslinging

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Pork, Prop 2, Proposition 2, California, Factory Farming, Animals, Smithfield Foods, Animal Rights, YES! On Prop 2, Cargill, No on Prop 2, National Pork Producers Council, Marcho Farms, Yes on Prop 2, Strauss Veal, Green News
Michael Markarian

Factory farm executives see the writing on the wall, and they know they can no longer get away with treating animals like commodities -- like nothing more than meat-producing machines.

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