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Make yourself useful: Five food actions in five minutes
We've collected some of the most important things you can do to speak up for a greener food system right now.
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‘Pink slime’ is the tip of the iceberg: Look what else is in industrial meat
Think added ammonia is bad? Try pool disinfectant, fabric bleach, and a variety of germicides!
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The man who blew the whistle on ‘pink slime’
Glad to see so many people talking about getting ammonia-treated beef trimmings out of school lunch? You have this former Beef Products Inc. employee to thank.
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Killer cuisine: Can hunting help us make better food choices?
Think hunting is just for middle-aged guys who don't care about greening our food system? Chef and author Georgia Pellegrini begs to differ.
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Home on the range: Can grass-based ranching be scaled up sustainably?
As new science reiterates the importance of cutting down on red meat, can a proposed grass-fed cattle ranch in Florida bring the eat-better-quality-meat-less-often approach to the mainstream?
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Rancher sticks up for animals in factory farm country
Farmer and strongman Kevin Fulton has taken on the admirable if unenviable task of bridging conventional agriculture and animal rights.
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School lunches still contain ‘pink slime’
For those among you who really miss the “pink slime” content of McDonald’s hamburgers and Taco Bell’s … everything, you can still get your fix of the ammonia-doused meat product, made of leftover, fatty trimmings. Where, you ask, can I find this abomination? According to The Daily, you can find it in your child’s school […]
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Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs
New science draws a straight line between antibiotic-resistant staph and the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Now, if only our lawmakers would do something with the information.
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Ad nauseam: Did Chipotle’s Grammy ad scare Big Ag?
Big Ag interests like the Farm Bureau want Americans to see alternatives to factory farming -- as shown in the recent Chipotle ad -- as nostalgic and unrealistic.