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Posts tagged ‘factory farming’

Bird Flu Back in Labs

Scientists have picked up the work they were doing last year creating deadly bird flu viruses in laboratories in the United States and Denmark.

The purpose of the research, they argue, is to find ways to protect us from the increasingly deadly new pathogens. But we already know how to protect ourselves from bird flu: Do something abut the terrible conditions at factory farms where these diseases are incubated.

American Humane’s Chairman Resigns

Eric Bruner, chairman of the board of the American Humane Association, has resigned in the wake of questionable financial practices as well as general policies regarding the direction of an organization that seems to have lost its way.

Food, Life and Liberation

When people ask me what they can do in the face of what’s shaping up to be a mass extinction of species, I always say that switching to a plant-based diet is the single best thing any of us can do. Not only is the food delicious and healthful; eating it becomes an act of solidarity with your new friends, the farm animals.

Running Out of Bacon

As global warming takes its toll on farmlands, the world is beginning to run out of bacon. Britain’s National Pig Association is pleading with the British…

Growing Shoes in a Test Tube?

Several companies are already in a race to be the first to produce tasty meat grown in laboratories from cultured cells, not living animals. But one…

Feds Shut Down Slaughterhouse

Yet another undercover investigation, more video horrors, and now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped in and suspended operations at the Central Valley Meat Co.…