Bonnie Azab Powell and Tom Philpott over at the environmental website Grist asked a number of big-name (and not-so-big name, ahem) food writers to name their favorite food books of the year. It’s a great must-read list. I’m going to have to place an order to fill in a few holes in my own roster of […]
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From the Humane Society of the United States’ press release: The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer. The investigation is […]
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Tags: Gestation Crates, Smithfield Foods, United States Humane Society
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Stars pierced the clear, cold predawn sky last January 19 when Dean Pierson, a 59-year-old dairy farmer from the hamlet of Copake, N. Y., headed out of the house to milk the 51 cows on Hi-Low Farm, as he did every […]
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