Friday, February 06, 2015 by Common Dreams The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality’s Never Far Away by Bill Moyers A Palestinian hold a poster with a picture of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh during a protest in front of the Jordanian embassy, in the West Bank City of Ramallah, Wednesday, Feb. 4,…
‘COOL is on life support’ – Gerry Ritz Better Farming Jim Algie Feb. 6, 2015 “COOL is on life support,” Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said during an interview from Washington, D. C., Thursday. Ritz was referring to contentious, U.S. country of origin labelling rules that complicate North American livestock and red meat trade. His…
Feb 9, 2015 This week thousands of Polish family farmers from the Solidarity trade union turned out to protest in over 50 locations across the country. Over 150 tractors have been blockading the A2 motorway into Warsaw since the 3rd February and hundreds more have closed roads and are picketing governmental offices in other regions….
Our Responsibilities to the Animals We Eat Each year more than nine billion animals go to slaughterhouses in the USA to be killed, processed, and packaged into the beef, pork, lamb and chicken that eventually find their way onto our dinner plates. It is an industrial process on a staggeringly vast scale, and it has…
The rise of ‘Made in the USA’ by China CNBC © Provided by CNBC Later this year along the banks of the James River outside Richmond, Virginia, a paper products maker based in northeastern China will begin construction on a new U.S. manufacturing plant. The factory will churn the region’s straw and corn stalks into…
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2015 08:55 AM MST USDA pork inspectors speak out: “People are going to eat sh*t” The agency’s new inspection model is a threat to food safety, federal whistleblowers allege Lindsay Abrams (Credit: rtem/Shutterstock) If you preferred not to know what’s in your ham, bacon and Spam before, you’re really not going to…
Brighton safeguards farmland amid rapid growth By John Aguilar The Denver Post Posted: 02/02/2015 Dave Loeffler gives some of his heifers a serving of hay. The city of Brighton is buying up acres of land around the city and leasing it back to farmers as a way to preserve farmland and the agricultural heritage of…
Jan 24, 2015 China brings home the bacon with America’s pigs As the geopolitics of food heats up, the foreign takeover of America’s largest meat company happened right under the nose of the U.S. government. Our investigation reveals the deep role the Chinese government played in purchasing 1 in 4 pigs raised in America. MORE
A Bug in the System Why last night’s chicken made you sick. Annals of Food February 2, 2015 Issue By Wil S. Hylton A lawyer is leading the fight to keep contaminated food off the supermarket shelf. Credit Illustration by Oliver Munday Late one night in September of 2013, Rick Schiller awoke in bed with…