Tag: Beef
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How do they find horse meat in hamburger?
A relatively new test detected horse meat in European hamburger. We wonder: how do they test this? Could it happen in America? What happens to all the recalled food?
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Pink Slime Makers Sue ABC News For Defamation
The suit, brought in South Dakota court, seeks over a billion dollars in damages against ABC News -- even though ABC never originated the term and was just reporting what everyone else was calling it.
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BPI's Response to Outrage Over Ground Beef? 3 Governors and a T-Shirt
Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.
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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption.
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Does Living Near Fast Food Restaurants Mean You’re More Likely to Be Fat?
Fast food is the enemy of green food, so why does an overweight America still eat so much fast food?
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Globalized Beef, Palm Oil & Timber Corporations Now Main Cause of Tropical Deforestation
Confirming what previous studies have shown, new research from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that the main threats to tropical forests are no longer from
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Bt Toxin Detected In Most Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Canadian Females Tested
A first-ever report of such findings, documenting trace levels of Bt protein (Cry1Ab) measured in a majority of (30) pregnant and (39) non-pregnant Canadian women tested, could indicate a serious health
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World's Biggest Beef Company Agrees to Not Buy Deforestation Beef, Use Slave Labor
Report after report has illustrated the direct connection between beef cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil, and now there's some progress on reigning in the tree-felling. As Mongabay reports the world's largest beef company, JBS-Friboi, has
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Brazilian Beef's Carbon Footprint Wildly High Thanks To Deforestation
This should come as no great surprise to anyone who's been around the environmental block a couple times, but the new stats on the carbon footprint of beef from Brazil are pretty stunning: A new study being highlighted by Mongabay shows that because of
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Masters of Beef Advocacy Grads Take On Sustainable Food Supporters, Attacking The Wrong Target
If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow
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Factory Farms Decreasing in Number But Increasing In Size: 20% Growth In 5 Years
Despite small but significant signs that the country wants to move in a different direction, factory farms across the country are growing at an unprecedented rate—not in number, but in size. An analysis
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Walmart's Newest Sustainability Initiative Focuses on Local Produce, Small Farmers
Walmart announced the next steps it will take toward sustainability today, with a series of changes focused on increasing local produce in its stores and improving relationships with small- and medium-size farmers.
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Industrial Animal Factories in Shocking Photos (Slideshow)
Once you've seen what goes on inside a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) it's tough to accept the trade-off of horrific animal suffering in order to have cheap food.
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Industrial Animal Factories in Shocking Photos
Once you've seen what goes on inside a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) it's tough to accept the trade-off of horrific animal suffering in order to have cheap food. Unfortunately, the suffering of the animals is just the most obvious problem
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Poultry, Beef More Likely to Make You Sick, CDC Says
If you want to reduce your chances of foodborne illness, go veggie. That's one take away from a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report linking types of food to illness outbreaks in the U.S. Of course, you
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Where's the Beef? It's Heating Swedish Homes
Biomal, which is defined as a "renewable" fuel created from crushing and grinding animal wastes and burning them together with wood chips or peat, is quietly used by Swedes (and initially funded by the
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Michael Pollan Admits He Was Wrong
Almost every time we post something on the meat debate we get a slew of emotional comments from readers that sit on either side. The vegan side was backed up by sustainable food icon Michael
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Endangered and Threatened Species That are Apparently Delicious (Please Don't Eat Them)
It's polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth. Actually, you can't have permission for that last one: you can't eat endangered
