meat industry

The Recent USDA Beef Recall and Why It Should Matter to the Future of American Consumerism. Recently, the US government called for the recall of the largest amount of beef in U.S. history. To me, this issue is important because industrial-style factory farming is a very environmentally-destructive modern practice. Not only is it posing a huge problem for open space conservation and preservation of natural resources out in the American countryside, but it is obviously a food safety / consumer issue as well. Take a look at the articles here and submit your own / let me know what you think.

The Great American Meatout encourages you to give up meat for a day (or more). Here's a look at some of the environmental reasons why that's a good idea.

A look at two of the issues surrounding the recent downer cows debacle.

Channel Four's Big Food Fight starts on monday, aiming to expose where our food comes from and inspire more ethical consumer choices. Look out for the programmes, and sign the petition for better poultry farming at chickenout.tv

Up to 250,000 healthy Welsh hill lambs will be culled and incinerated in the next few weeks to avoid a welfare disaster. The move follows restrictions imposed during the latest foot and mouth disease outbreak and a similar cull of up to 250,000 lambs now taking place in Scotland.

Farmers are being offered £15 a lamb by the two devolved governments to have the animals slaughtered. Some of the Scottish lambs are being rendered to make biodiesel fuel, but none of the 500,000 animals will go for food.

Last November, immigration officials began a crackdown at Smithfield Foods’s giant slaughterhouse here, eventually arresting 21 illegal immigrants at the plant and rousting others from their trailers in the middle of the night.  Since then, more than 1,100 Hispanic workers have left the 5,200-employee hog-butchering plant, the world’s largest, leaving it struggling to find, train

After battling out the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history, Topps Meat closes it's doors forever.