an independent, nonprofit Animal Compassion Foundation to, in its words, "provide education and research services to assist and inspire ranchers and meat producers around the world to achieve a higher standard of animal welfare...

with the chickens and eggs they produce. Some years ago, I made the choice not to buy factory produced chicken or eggs. Apart from the ethical/welfare issues (I do donate to Compassion in World Farming –...

Yes, I was referring to the discussion of animal protein causing problems with vegetarians who are not used to it. I know lard comes from dead animals, but I know a lot of vegetarians that avoid meat for health reasons, not...

production due to human health and animal welfare concerns.

states, "Slow Food is good, clean and fair food. We believe that the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food...

) In general, most risk analysis does take the most conservative route, as it should when human health and welfare is at stake. If you are a young, healthy person, you should be fine. Personally, I believe that the very young,...

I heard the zoo was fine, it was high enough that it got no flooding and only 3 animals died out of a couple thousand.

The reason for excluding foreign meat products predates mad cow: it’s anthrax, a devastating disease. If you care about the welfare of farm animals in the U.S. (and the people who eat them), don’t smuggle —...

with humanitarian/animal welfare issues (veal, Kobe, fois gras, horsemeat) in their food production than many Americans (although I think you could argue that their more traditional animal husbandry methods are more humane to...

of the strains of e coli are so dangerous. Apparently, the strain of e coli that harmed the young woman in the NY Times story was unknown before 1982 and is prevalent in the guts of cattle in large feedlots, not pasture fed...

maybe the parents' priority re: their kids drinking horizon “organic” strawberry milk is not the added sugar (or the welfare of the animals who produce the milk), but the artificial hormones(& high IGF1 levels) which...

animals are raised for consumption. I think our cuisine would be improved, not impoverished, if restaurants served interesting meatless dishes. And I think a heavy meat diet does bad things to men psychologically (maybe women,...

the stranglehold agribusiness has on our own domestic policy. ADM et al pressured the gov’t to cut sugar imports by 80%, then funnel corporate welfare to farmers to grow corn for HFCS and now ethanol – farmers with...

others with a vested interest in my welfare, that when the day comes, after I have been indoctrinated in to this colorless, scientifically engineered, sterile, smokeless fratenity of alledged masters of the big 'Q, and apparently...

breast are more expensive per kg. I usually buy the free range but occasionally the organic. I am not prepared to buy factory produced meat. We make economies elsewhere. (“Freedom Foods” standards are slightly higher...