Your Meat Is Green

Tips for responsible carnivores.

I'll Pay You to Kill My Steer

Free-range and grass-fed animals are big with consumers. So why won’t most American slaughterhouses kill them?

Greens Goddess

Cookbook author Deborah Madison spills the beans with CHOW.

100 Pounds of Leftovers

A meat-and-potatoes guy tries to save money by buying an entire side of beef.

From cave paintings to burgers, beef has long been a part of human history.

The rise of industrial meat; the fall of cows.

Workers at a processing plant fall ill, and health inspectors look into pig brains.

A creepy video produced by a PETA volunteer undercover at a slaughterhouse makes us think about the ethics of both killing animals and advocating for vegetarianism.

Small farmers screwed by the E. coli scare, sez Mike Pollan. He makes a case for buying local and against torturous federal regulations in The New York Times.

What’s the best way to make our meat supply safer?

Psst— know where to buy a mobile slaughterhouse? The state of Vermont may soon be in the market for a pair of 'em, according to the AP.

A hidden-camera video shows flagrantly illegal and inhumane practices in a California slaughterhouse.

In which a rare uncloven pig is loved, killed, and gloriously cooked.

What’s all the fuss about slaughter?

Grilled meats in large quantities at the Woodburning Pit.