PSA – Wash Those Pre-Washed Salad Greens
Recent research from the Consumer Reports Magazine found that those bagged salad mixes, most claiming to be pre-washed and ready to eat, aren’t as clean as you’d like them to be. Thankfully, what they found wasn’t e coli, salmonella or anything as dreadful as that. Instead, in their sample of 208 bags (representing 16 brands) [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: agriculture, education, factory farms, Health, heroes, waste Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology 
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Al Gore Denounces Factory Farming
Al Gore says he’s going to get crazy in order to get politicians to take note of the urgency of climate change. And, well, if those ideas sound a little too crazy, he does have other ideas.  Along with increased energy efficiency, relying on sustainable agricultural practices is the way forward. The funny is up [...]
November 25, 2009
Tags: change, factory farms, farmers, heroes, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Politics No Comments
Time Magazine Takes A Bite Out Of Cheap Food
Usually when the mainstream media talks about the plight of factory farmed animals and their deleterious effect on the environment, they do so in passing. It’s almost a casual afterthought to the story about why eating red meat will kill you faster, if it gets mentioned at all. Enter Times (online) magazine. The article Getting [...]
August 24, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, cows, factory farms, farmers, Health, obesity, policy, waste Posted in: Health, Politics One Comment
Is Factory Farming To Blame For The Swine Flu?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano began White House press briefing on the swine influenza by noting it had been declared a public health emergency. She said:
That sounds more severe than really it is. This is standard operating procedure and allows us to free up federal, state, and local agencies and their resources [...]
April 27, 2009
Tags: factory farms, farmers, food event, food safety, Health Posted in: Health, Science & Technology One Comment
EPA Gets Sued Over Exemption For Factory Farm Pollutants
Environmental Groups Cry Fowl Play
Tuesday, January, 20th, the last day of the Bush administration, a new regulation went into effect that exempts dairies and other large-scale livestock operations from having to notify Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials when toxic pollutants are emitted. Â Six environmental groups have already filed suits against the EPA. Â One of them, [...]
January 21, 2009
Tags: agriculture, EPA, factory farms, green, policy, pollution Posted in: Politics No Comments
