Showing posts with label meat safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meat safety. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

More on antibiotics and meat

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problems of antibiotic abuse on factory-farmed animals . Since the FDA doesn't seem to be doing much ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

If you eat beef . . .

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You might be interested to know that feedlot cattle are routinely fed chicken waste--that is chicken feces, feathers, dead birds, spilled fe...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Standard for Naturally-Raised Meat

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Here's a press release from Consumers Union about new standards for "naturally raised" meat. Do you call animals that have bee...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Happy Turkey Day

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I have gotten really soured on Thanksgiving as it seems to be all about the slaughter of millions and millions of turkeys--and much less foc...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Hormel pork supplier charged

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An Iowa Sherriff has announced that 22 charges of livestock neglect and abuse have been filed against six current and former employees of th...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

from GE plants to GE animals

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Here's a statement just out from the Consumers' Union (nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports) http://www.consumersunion.org/ For I...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Cost of Steak

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Check out this great commentary in the LA Times called "The Cost of Steak: Factory farms produce cheap meat, until you consider the rei...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Interesting information about beef recall

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There is a great article with lots of information about the recall and beef in general - plus a video of what was done to the cows at Hallma...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Meat from cloned animals already in our food supply

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It was all over the news about a month ago - meat from cloned animals was approved but since the technology was so expensive, we didn't ...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Meat from sick animals served at schools

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The USDA is investigating Chino, CA company Hallmark after release of a video showing workers using illegal practices on sick cows to get th...
Friday, November 16, 2007

USDA allowing Candadian meat with high risk of mad cow

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Beginning Monday, November 19, the USDA will allow Canadian cattle born after 1999 to enter the U.S., where they can be slaughtered and sold...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed bill to label products from cloned animals

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The California Legislation passed a bill (SB 63) introduced by Senator Migen to require that meat and dairy products from cloned animals be ...
Saturday, May 05, 2007

Unlabeled irradiated foods

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new federal regulations that will allow manufacturers and retailers to sell controversia...

Contaminated Pet Food moving into Human Food Supply

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The FDA and USDA, the federal agencies responsible for protecting the nation's food supply, said on Monday that contaminated wheat glute...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Independent Testing for Mad Cow Disease May Be Allowed

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Remember last year when Creekstone Farms, a meatpacker in Kansas, wanted to test all of its cows for mad cow disease at its own expense. The...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Beef consumption during pregnancy may affect children

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According to a study by Dr. Shanna H. Swan of the Universtiy of Rochester Medical Center, men whose mother’s ate a lot of beef during pregna...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Mad Cow

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There was an interesting article in this week's newsletter from the Organic Consumers Association. It seems that McDonalds Corporation i...