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Film Review: Mad Cow Sacred Cow
Karma Films Mad Cow Sacred Cow depicts the personal journey of filmmaker Anand Ramayya, a self-professed meat eating Hindu. Ramayya and his crew travel from his in-law's small cattle operation nestled in the heart of the Canadian prairies to the
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From the Forums: Meat Tax?
Member Rick Wild is asking if since many are for taxes that discourage behaviors that produce carbon and pollution, does it then make sense for a tax on meat products?
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BOP Source Shows Kiva Video, Grist Gets Meaty, People Tree Talk Fair Trade, and More
BOP Source: A Fistfull of Dollars - A story about a Kiva.org Loan (video) by Jenara Nerenberg "Inspiring video from a Kiva Fellow in Cambodia." Kieran Ball left his job in London to follow the progress of a Kiva loan from donor to recipient in Cambodia.
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Better Burgers at Burger Lounge
The Burger Lounge, which opened in 2006, now has 3 locations across San Diego offering organic and healthy burger alternatives for one of the healthiest, if not greenest, of cities. Created by Dean Loring and Mike Gilligan,
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The Life of a Swedish 'Climate Smart' Chicken: Nasty, Brutish, Short?
The 'kycklingdebat' or chicken debate is hot in Swedes' minds since Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), on of the country's two main dailies, published a long report on the short lives of the 74 million chickens annually born and bred
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Cattle Ranchers Want Goats
Cattle ranchers in Nebraska are increasingly turning to goats to get rid of their weed problems. Referred to as "walking weed eaters", the North Platte Telegram reported this morning that cattle will bypass the weeds for the
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New Cow Diet Reduces Methane Emissions...and No, It's Not M
While farmers in the US are trying to save money by feeding their cows junk food, the London Times reported today that scientists have found a diet that just might cut down on the belching coming from cows. By feeding cows
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Cows Like M&M;'s, Too
Well, we don't know if they like them, but they will eat them. And as the cost of grains and corn has gone up because of the interest in ethanol, feeding cattle strictly corn is too expensive, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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O'Burger Offers First Organic Fast Food in Los Angeles
O'burger, the first organic fast food joint in Los Angeles, where the burgers and everything else are all organic. What does that mean exactly? Well, "the buns, the sauce, the vegetables, meat, ketchup, mustard, fries and salad dressing" - it's all
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Wildlife Land Management Needs Sustainable Vision to Control Disease Outbreaks
Where do the Buffalo Roam? Is a question many in the West are trying to answer. Wild herds of American Bison (commonly called Buffalo), once roamed the great plains in the tens of millions as part of a complex, sustainable and highly productive
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How About A Burger And Some Renewable-Resource Packaging With Those Fries?
Fresh. Local. Sustainable. That's the Burgerville tag line, and while some people might take issue with the whole idea of sustainable
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Britons Waste $20bn Worth of Food a Year
We’ve already heard lots about the food crisis that is threatening global development, and we have had plenty of debate about how eating no meat, a little meat, fake meat and even the plain old potato might help ease global hunger, stop global warming,
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Food and Farming After Peak Oil: BBC Wales Takes a Long Hard Look
Who said the revolution would not be televised? What with national newspapers talking about survivalism and community resillience, and radio soaps joining the Transition Towns initiative, it really seems like the mainstream media in the UK are
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How the World is Eating, as Eating Gets More Expensive
It seems like the cost of food is all over the news these days, and it keeps making a regular appearance on TreeHugger too. Only last week we reported on a speech made by the UK's Chief Scientist about how the food crisis will bite well before
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Snakes on a Plain... and in the City
Deforestation of northern Brazil's rainforests is pushing insanely huge reptiles out of their habitats - and into dense urban areas. Sitting on the mouth of the Amazon River, the
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Michael Pollan On The Big Beef Recall
145 million pounds of ground beef was recalled after the Humane Society of the United States released this undercover video, showing "downer" cows being moved to slaughter with forklifts and other nasty things that will put you off your dinner.
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Amazon Deforestation Speeds Up Once More
When we recently dared to be optimistic about news that destruction of the Amazon may be slowing down, our commenters were quick to step in an suggest the need for more scepticism about official figures. Sadly, it seems they may have been right. New
