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. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease.
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2012
Supreme Court rules on health care challenge| GPS tracking "The Federal Meat Inspection Act regulates slaughterhouses' handling and treatment of non-ambulatory pigs from the moment of their delivery through the end of the meat production process," wrote Justice Elena Kagan.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. So if animal husbandry is to be prohibited, it should be on animal-welfare grounds, not environmental grounds.
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. The featured slaughterer is Bev Eggleston of EcoFriendly Foods, who says, “My perspective of what is humane is broader than how you harvest a cow.
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." All they do thereafter is replace cows with chickens and pigs and fish. Where do people get that idea? Let's just say the ban was meaningful.
Critter News
APRIL 1, 2009
He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. You are not processing their wellbeing, but their carcasses for meat. Here is my opinion.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 11, 2008
4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. But the leaner meat from grass-fed animals actually tastes richer and more savory. The other problem with meat consumption is proportion. Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,
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