Those of you who read this blog regularly know what we think of “Meatless Monday.” There’s hardly been a more idiotic idea to come down the pike than the one that would have us give up eating meat because of climate change. There are so many other ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, why would […]
Tags:global warming·meat·pollution
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that this country’s agribusinesses feed more than 24 million pounds of antibiotics to beef, pigs and poulty every year primarily to make them grow faster. Scientists now believe that this routine, non-therapeutic use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock is creating perfect conditions for breeding potentially lethal strains of drug-resistant […]
Food Inc., the documentary about how corporations have industrialized our food system, is a film every American should watch. Too bad most of them won’t, simply because this is not the kind of movie that gets wide distribution. And if you’ve read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, there’s not much […]
Tags:food films·food safety
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