On AlterNet: feedlot

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "feedlot"

Smithfield Foods Exposed for (More) Cruelty at Factory Farms

Rachel Cernansky, TreeHugger. December 17, 2010.

Through an undercover investigation in Virginia, the Humane Society of the U.S. caught horrific treatment of female pigs and piglets on video.

America's Priciest Steak Houses Still Serving Factory-Farmed Beef

Luanne Bradley, AlterNet. February 16, 2010.

Most of the high priced U.S. haunts of meat connoisseurs cite several excuses for not making the shift to ethically raised, drug-free, grass-fed cattle.

Lab-Grown Meat: The Answer to Animal Cruelty and Environmental Ruin From Feedlots?

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. November 13, 2009.

If and when lab-grown meat begins filling the processed-food troughs of the masses, will the Oscar Mayer wiener-eaters of the world even notice?

Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 4, 2009.

"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."

FDA Says 29 Million Pounds of Antibiotics Used in Food Animals Last Year

Marion Nestle, December 31, 1969.