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This is the second part of a two part series on food labeling. Part I is here.
All Natural
The “All Natural” label means the product contains no artificial ingredients and is minimally processed (a process which does not fundamentally alter the raw product). For example, animal products raised with the use of artificial hormones can [...]
Debeaking is the partial removal of a bird’s beak. This commonplace procedure is painful and sometimes fatal for the bird.
Have you ever see an “All Natural”, “Organic” or “Cage Free” label on a food product such as chicken breast or eggs? These labels are popping up everywhere in response to a new awareness of what we put in our bodies and how our farmed animals are raised.
While there are many labels that can [...]
A gestation crate is a 7 ft by 2 ft metal enclosure used in intensive pig farming, in which a female breeding pig is confined during pregnancy, and in effect for most of her adult life.
Is our current health care crisis is tied to the overuse of antibiotics in the animal agricultural industry?
Factory farming is a dirty business. The life forms that evolved on this planet and were eventually domesticated by humans were never meant to be packed shoulder to shoulder in cramped, artificially lit structures.
La Gloria, home of the first victim of swine flu, lies close to a collection of Smithfield’s farms. Residents in the area have long complained about an unnatural smell around the farms, and swarms of flies in the area. The type of fly found near these farms is known to reproduce in pig [...]
Somewhere east of the North Carolina town of Tar Heel lay rows upon rows of hog farms, as far as the eye can see. Each hog house, as long as a football field, holds up to 10,000 hogs and backs onto a single large lagoon. The lagoons are a sickly shade of pink and contain [...]
Overcrowding and overuse of vaccines could be the reason for the mutation of a powerful new super flu and Smithfield’s super efficient factory farms could be the breeding ground. This isn’t the first time swine flu has broken out at a Smithfield’s farm. As recently as 2007, an outbreak at one of the company’s Romanian [...]