Yet More Antibiotics in Feed Lots
May 15, 2012 by Michael Mountain
It’s bad enough that animals at factory farms are being dosed up with antibiotics. Now we’re learning that they’re getting a whole other source of antibiotics, too – not just the kinds that come directly from the pharmaceutical industry.
All You Can Eat
May 10, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. We’re not only eating ourselves to death; the “food” we eat is actively poisoning us. And some of it is poisoning the planet, too.
Latest Pig Factory Shocker
May 9, 2012 by Michael Mountain
A worker kicks one of the pigs in this video from the HSUS As legislators in farm states keep scrambling to ban undercover investigations, the shocking videos just keep coming. The latest, from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), may just be one of the worst. Here’s a handful of the abuses documented [...]
Chefs’ Last Ditch Stand to Keep Serving Foie Gras
May 1, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Two months ago, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck wrote to fellow chefs in California asking them to join him in embracing the state’s new law banning foie gras, which takes effect in July. Now, it seems, he’s got his answer. A group of the state’s best known chefs has, instead, launched a full menu of publicity [...]
California Dairy Cow Had Mad Cow Disease
April 24, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The first case in six years of a cow with mad cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) has been found in California. The cow was identified at a rendering facility as part of routine testing for the brain-wasting disease, John Clifford, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinarian, told reporters today at [...]
The One Way to Celebrate Earth Day
April 19, 2012 by Michael Mountain
This Sunday, you can celebrate Earth Day by recycling something, joining a group that’s picking up old cans and bottles, taking a reusable shopping bag to the supermarket …Or you can do the one thing that will really make a difference.
FDA to Drug Companies: Stop Dosing Food Animals with Antibiotics
April 12, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The Food and Drug Administration has finally called on drug companies to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a practice that is contributing to the surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. Penicillin and other antibiotics are routinely mixed with animal feed make animals grow faster, get bigger, and avoid the numerous diseases that are [...]
Another Chicken Factory Farm Busted
April 12, 2012 by Michael Mountain
In the latest undercover investigation into animal abuse at factory farms, we see, in the same cages as living chickens, birds who have been dead so long their bodies are mummified. This morning the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) accused Kreider Farms of “extreme animal abuse” and unsanitary conditions.
Iowa Governor Defends Pink Slime
April 11, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is on massive damage control in the wake of public revulsion to the idea of “pink slime” in their beef. Wearing a pink t-shirt saying “Dude, It’s Beef”, Branstad went on the Marketplace Morning Report on NPR, claiming that all kinds of undefined people are involved in a “vicious smear campaign” [...]
Arsenic and Old Feathers
April 5, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Today, yet another food revelation: Chickens on factory farms are routinely fed acetaminophen (as in Tylenol), along with the same antihistamine you find in Benadryl, the antidepressant that’s featured in Prozac, plus various antimicrobials, and, yes, arsenic.
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