Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county.
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2008
I don't know how seriously to take this, or if it's just the ag industry pulling an NRA stunt (ie. 4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog. knee-jerk reaction to anything and everything.) There was} a proposal Thursday, Dec.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Many of the beef industry’s problems result from feedlots that consume tremendous amounts of grain and that pour out huge sloughs of waste. Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method. Consumers can help the beef industry save itself by both buying less and choosing grass-fed. Andrew Rimas Evan D. This is stupid.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
11, 2008 To the Editor: We are seeing environmental ruin because of factory farming. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products.
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