Tag: Factory Farming
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ALEC’s Ag-Gag Laws Threaten Factory Farm Whistleblowers with Criminal Charges
Muckrakers and activists have been working to expose the brutality of industrialized meat production since Upton Sinclair’s writing of The Jungle in 1906. But an ALEC model bill known as …
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Organizations Urge U.S. Rejection of Smithfield Takeover
Today, a letter addressed to members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. was delivered by a broad coalition of farm, community and consumer organizations, urging the members to recommend …
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Chinese Herbs: Health Remedy or Pesticides Cocktail?
Traditional Chinese herbs have a strong reputation for their medicinal benefits, but a Greenpeace East Asia investigation has revealed that these herbs are coated in a toxic cocktail of pesticide residues, posing long-term health risks …
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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
As the global demand for animal protein grew more than fivefold over the second half of the twentieth century, humans began to press against the productivity constraints of the world’s rangelands and oceans. Annual beef production climbed …
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China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Leads to Copycatting U.S. Factory Farms
Hogs put on about twice as much weight as cattle per pound of feed, and chickens grow even faster. Smithfield Foods in the U.S. has become remarkably “efficient” at fattening hogs en masse; such expertise is a big attraction for China. Yet even though the U.S. has a better reputation on food safety than China,…