Showing posts with label Factory Farms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Factory Farms. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Broken food chains

by Steve Masover

I wrote in late May  about industrial food production, as an exemplar of a general thesis  that complexity breeds collapse. And here we go again: news in the U.S.  press this week skews heavily toward eggs contaminated with salmonella.  Not just one or two eggs. We're talking "recall of a half-billion eggs from two mega-farms in Iowa" according to Friday's San Francisco Chronicle.



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Friday, June 4, 2010

The Oil We Eat

by soothsayer99

A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme advocates what many environmental and animal rights activists have been urging for eons -- GO VEGAN! "A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change."

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