Tag: Humane Food
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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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News: Idaho “Ag-Gag” Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional
By Will Potter • Originally published on Green Is The New Red A U.S. District Court has struck down Idaho’s “ag-gag” law as an unconstitutional attempt by the agriculture industry to silence journalists, animal advocates, and whistleblowers who expose cruel farming practices. The damning ruling—the first of its kind—spells trouble for the agriculture industry’s attempts in other…
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General Mills Commits to Cage-Free Eggs
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally posted on HumaneSociety.org Within the last six months or so, we’ve worked with many of the biggest names in the food business to announce their commitment to stop selling eggs from caged hens. Aramark, Compass Group, Dunkin Brands, Hilton, Kellogg, Nestle, Sodexo, Starbucks, and Walmart have all made public pledges…
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News: Walmart, Nation’s Biggest Food Seller, Adopts Principles for More Humane Treatment of Farm Animals
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally posted on HumaneSociety.org On May 22, Walmart, one of the world’s biggest companies – and the nation’s biggest food seller by a long shot – announced it has adopted the “five freedoms” principles for farm animals, effectively renouncing the use of extreme confinement and other abusive practices in animal agriculture,…
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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…
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Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?
Can genetically engineered foods help feed the hungry? Are anti-GMO activists and over-zealous environmentalists standing in the way of the hungry being fed? The hope that GMO foods might bring solutions to malnutrition and world hunger was never more dramatically illustrated than when Time magazine ran a cover story titled “Grains of Hope.” The article…
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Could Anyone Find This Animal Abuse Tolerable?
On August 21, 2012, the USDA shut down operations at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, Calif. The facility, located at the center of California’s dairy industry, slaughters California dairy cows when their milk production declines and sells their meat to make hamburger for the school lunch program. Federal regulators took the action after receiving…
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Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease: Coming to a Burger Near You
Burger lovers never seem to have an easy time. In March 2012, news broke that the USDA’s National School Lunch Program had recently purchased seven million pounds of something delectably called “pink slime.” Soon thereafter, news reports trumpeted that pink slime hasn’t just been making its way into school lunches, as bad as that sounds.…
