Tag: Factory Farms
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Parting the Veil: What Really Happens in Factory Farms
I studied factory farms for years. Visiting one was far worse than I imagined. Excerpted from Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy and Our Shared Destinies by Aysha Akhtar. Published by Pegasus Books. © Aysha Akhtar. Reprinted with permission from Salon.com. I was giving a talk at a conference in Oklahoma about the public…
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Are Eggs Healthy for You — And for the Planet?
Are eggs an egg-cellent addition to a healthy diet? Or not?
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Dunkin Donuts will switch to cage-free eggs
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally published on the Humane Society of the United States blog If you don’t think we are in the midst of a period of punctuated change for animals on factory farms, and specifically on the use of gestation crates and battery cages, you haven’t been reading A Humane Nation. On December 7, in…
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Clearing the Air About Factory Farming and Ag-Gag Laws
By Paul Shapiro What do our nation’s farms and chemical manufacturing labs have in common? Well, for some pig factory farms in America, more than you might expect. Pigs poop—a lot. And when you concentrate huge numbers of pigs inside one building, you get a huge amount of poop. Yet collecting so much of that waste…
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Redefining Good Food at the Nation’s Largest Casual Restaurant Company
By Kari Hamerschlag, Friends of the Earth In these busy times, we spend nearly half our food budgets eating out. This means that big restaurant chains have an enormous influence on what we eat and how food is produced – and a lot of power to move our food system in a better direction. Unfortunately,…
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Getting Creative Juices Flowing
I was ten-years-old when my dad first began to write Diet for a New America. It was the first book to expose the truth about factory farms, and the link between food and our planet, to a wide audience. In the five years after the book’s publication in 1987, beef consumption in the United States…
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VIDEO: The Secrets of Food Marketing
Think you aren’t being fooled by advertising tricks? Take a look at this so-called expert revealing food marketing’s secret weapon. The speaker in this video is actually an actress (named Kate Miles), but the facts are real. The audience is also real, and so are their looks of disgust.
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The Truth About Grassfed Beef
Get answers about grassfed beef. Is it healthier? Better for the environment? What does it taste like? And how is it different than typical beef? Discover the truth about grass fed beef in this in-depth article. A lot of people today, horrified by how animals are treated in factory farms and feedlots and wanting to…
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How the Food Movement Is Gaining Strength
More and more people are realizing that our food chain is in crisis. Agribusiness has made profits more important than your health — more important than the environment — and more important than your right to know how your food is produced. The United States now spends nearly 20 percent of GDP on health care, but levels…
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Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets
We live in a world of profound contradictions. Some things are just unbelievably strange. At times I feel like I’ve found a way to adapt to the weirdness of the world, and then along comes something that just boggles my mind. The largest grassroots breast cancer advocacy group in the world, a group called “Susan…
