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Digest – News: Meat on the move, the chains of biotech, resources for organic
Drop it like it's hot: Brazilian beef giant JBS, which snagged Smithfield's beef business last March, abandoned plans to purchase U.S. National Beef Packing Co. on Friday. The JBS/National Beef merger was under anti-trust investigation by the Justice Department, which celebrated JBS' decision and claimed that now, "competition and competitive pricing
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Digest – News: Vilsack’s singing our song, but he ain’t our valentine yet
Yeah OK, we're listening: The WashPo's Jane Black interviews new Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who says that being an overweight kid has given him insight into childhood nutrition problems, that in an ideal world all food would be purchased locally, and that the USDA needs to help build the infrastructure
Edible San Francisco’s Meat Issue
The latest Edible San Francisco (of which I am deputy editor) is the Meat Issue and has several articles available online that I think will also be of interest to Ethicurean readers. Head over to ESF's website to read them (and
Sustainable Pork Smackdown, Pt. 1: Why Bay Area residents should choose Midwestern pork
By Samin Nosrat | Illustration by Marcos Sorenson Read Pt. 2: Why Bay Area residents should choose local pork Before Edible San Francisco readers start lobbing flaming Molotov pigtails at me,
Sustainable Pork Smackdown, Pt. 2: Why Bay Area residents should choose local pork
By Bonnie Azab Powell | Illustration by Marcos Sorenson Read Pt. 1: Why Bay Area residents should choose Midwestern pork I have to confess something: I have a hog in this race. In addition
Taxing cows to curb climate change
When you fill your car's tank, you pay a gas tax. Someday, when you fill your belly with cheese, milk, or steak, you might have to pay another type of gas tax — one levied on the methane and nitrous oxide emitted by the cows that produced or became your food. Bacteria in a cow's gut help digest what
Digest: “Naturally raised” defined, Niman merging, mo’ meaty news
Department of Agribusiness fails us again: The USDA
Hannibal Peckter: When being Mother Hen isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Post updated 11:27 a.m. with punnier new headline, hat tip to Impolite Company Editor's note: We're pleased to announce that frequent guest contributor Debra Eschmeyer has consented to join the Ethicurean
Making sausages
Whoever first made sausages was a genius. They took pieces of meat that they perhaps weren't going to use right away, or at all, and combined them with spices and/or herbs, finally stuffing them into another part
Digest addition: Massive recall of Irish pork for PCB presence
PCB is for Piggy Chemical Backlash: Friend o"Ethicurean and Plenty columnist
Digest – News: Ritchie for AgSec, Kansas kraziness, FDA pats itself on back
The best and the brightest: Foodie luminaries, among them Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, send a letter to Obama calling for a Secretary of Ag who will deliver on sustainability. Mark Ritchie makes the list (yeah!). (NYT
Digest: The chicken edition
Chickengating: Johns Hopkins researchers find that drivers following chicken trucks have unsafe levels of bacteria — including antibiotic-resistant strains — in and on their cars. The National Chicken Council accuses the researchers of tailgating, which it claims is "much more dangerous than being
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Digest: Turkey time, slow schizophrenia, and rural America tells Obama where it’s at
Get rural, Obama: Rural Americans mostly didn't vote for Obama, but back in October 2007 he pledged to hold a "rural summit" if elected and deliver a package of rural initiatives to Congress in his first 100 days as president. Here's what they might want to see in it — and surprise, it's not about
Grass act: Gene Logsdon’s “All Flesh Is Grass”
As the problems of industrial meat production — CAFOs, excessive waste and pollution, worker
Oprah show torpedos CAFOs, gives props to Prop. 2
As just about everyone probably knows, most of Oprah's Tuesday show was devoted to reporter Lisa Ling's "How We Treat the Animals We Eat" investigation. I don't have cable, and thought I could watch the episode one way or another
