Tag Archives: Factory Farming

The New York Times 5:52 pm on December 29, 2021
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How We Treat Farmed Animals

Readers react to a column by Ezra Klein about the horrors of factory farming. Also: Hospitals and the unvaccinated; unwanted holiday gifts. 

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #christmas, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #factory-farming, #gifts, #hospitals, #meat, #vaccination-and-immunization

The New York Times 10:02 am on December 16, 2021
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There Are Better Ways to Build a Burger

How we treat farm animals today will be seen as a defining moral failing of our age.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #content-type-service, #empathy, #factory-farming, #food, #good-food-institute, #innovation, #livestock, #meat, #mercy-for-animals

The New York Times 9:00 am on November 4, 2021
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How Tyson Foods Got 60,500 Workers to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Quickly

The meatpacking giant, which was criticized for failing to do enough to protect its workers from Covid-19 last year, has become a leader on corporate mandates.

#appelbaum-stuart-h, #arkansas, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #factory-farming, #georgia, #iowa, #king-donnie, #meatpacking-plants-and-slaughterhouses, #retail-wholesale-and-department-store-union, #tyson-foods-inc, #united-food-and-commercial-workers-union, #vaccination-and-immunization, #workplace-environment, #workplace-hazards-and-violations

The New York Times 3:00 pm on April 24, 2021
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Let’s Launch a Moonshot for Meatless Meat

It wouldn’t actually take that much of an investment for Biden to get us headed in the right direction.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #animals, #beyond-meat-inc, #diet-and-nutrition, #factory-farming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #impossible-foods-inc, #livestock-diseases, #meat, #quarantine-life-and-culture, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 12:42 am on April 7, 2021
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Florida Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds

Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change.

#coal, #duke-energy-corporation, #environment, #factory-farming, #floods, #florida, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #hazardous-and-toxic-substances, #mines-and-mining, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #waste-materials-and-disposal, #water-pollution

The New York Times 6:44 pm on April 6, 2021
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Florida’s Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds

Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change.

#coal, #duke-energy-corporation, #environment, #factory-farming, #floods, #florida, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #hazardous-and-toxic-substances, #mines-and-mining, #regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry, #waste-materials-and-disposal, #water-pollution

The New York Times 9:00 am on March 16, 2021
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Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything.

The acclaimed food writer offers a sweeping indictment of our modern food system.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-vegetable-junk-a-history-of-food-from-sustainable-to-suicidal-book, #bittman-mark, #books-and-literature, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #factory-farming, #food

The New York Times 7:30 pm on February 6, 2021
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The Ugly Secrets Behind the Costco Chicken

An investigator went under cover and brought back disturbing video from a farm growing those famous birds.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #chickens, #costco-wholesale-corporation, #factory-farming, #mercy-for-animals, #supermarkets-and-grocery-stores, #united-states

The New York Times 1:52 pm on December 2, 2020
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Singapore Approves a Lab-Grown Meat Product, a Global First

The approval for a U.S. start-up’s “cultured chicken” product is a small victory for the nascent laboratory meat industry. Less clear is whether other countries will follow Singapore’s lead.

#chickens, #eat-just, #factory-farming, #food, #laboratories-and-scientific-equipment, #meat, #singapore, #start-ups

The New York Times 9:00 am on September 7, 2020
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The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis

In “Perilous Bounty,” Tom Philpott looks at the toll that industrial farming practices have taken on the health of the land.

#agriculture-and-farming, #books-and-literature, #factory-farming, #food-contamination-and-poisoning, #land-use-policies, #perilous-bounty-the-looming-collapse-of-american-farming-and-how-we-can-prevent-it-book, #philpott-tom-journalist

The New York Times 6:30 pm on July 11, 2020
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Why Will Our Great-Grandchildren Scorn Us?

As we topple statues, let’s also search for our own moral blind spots.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animal-abuse-rights-and-welfare, #factory-farming, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #vegetarianism

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 15, 2020
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Tyson Foods Worker Urges Company To Slow Down So They Can Social Distance

Poultry plants continue to run processing lines at a breakneck speed, making it impossible for workers to social distance.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #executive-orders-and-memorandums, #factories-and-manufacturing, #factory-farming, #poultry, #trump-donald-j, #tyson-foods-inc, #tyson-john-h, #virginia, #your-feed-opinionvideo

The New York Times 12:25 pm on May 21, 2020
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The Coronavirus and a World Without Meat

If you care about the working poor, about racial justice, and about climate change, you have to stop eating animals.

#agriculture-and-farming, #animals, #centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #factory-farming, #foer-jonathan-safran, #grassley-charles-e, #meat, #meat-packers-and-butchers, #shutdowns-institutional, #trump-donald-j, #white-castle, #whole-foods-market-inc

The New York Times 9:00 am on May 14, 2020
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Meat Plant Closures Mean Pigs Are Gassed or Shot Instead

Coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants have created a backlog of animals ready for slaughter but with nowhere to go. Farmers are having to cull them.

#agriculture-and-farming, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #factory-farming, #iowa, #livestock, #meat, #midwestern-states-us, #minnesota, #pigs, #slaughterhouses, #suicides-and-suicide-attempts