Meat (page 32)

Trashing Pork, Cashing In

He’s “very reckless.” He’s “assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature.” He “separates himself from good science at times in order to aggressively pursue an issue and win.” He’s…
Posted April 11, 2002 at 12:00 am

Kennedy’s Pork Police Hit Iowa

Farmers be warned: Anti-pork activists from across the nation (including “labor leaders,” “attorneys,” and “animal welfare and community activists”) will descend on Clear Lake, Iowa, on Friday, April 5 for…
Posted April 2, 2002 at 12:00 am

Anti-Poultry Eggs-tremism

The anti-poultry fringe group United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is taking on the evil menace of Easter eggs, planning a protest outside the White House during the annual Easter Egg Roll,…
Posted March 28, 2002 at 12:00 am

March Meatout Madness

It’s the first day of spring. The flowers are blooming, the birds are returning… and the Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM) is demonstrating. As they do each year on…
Posted March 20, 2002 at 12:00 am

Bird Brains

Mother hen Karen Davis of the anti-poultry fringe group United Poultry Concerns, who lives with over 100 chickens and duck “companions,” has said “the extermination of seven billion…
Posted March 13, 2002 at 12:00 am

Big Bucks vs. Small Farms

If you’re a Kennedy you might not have to worry about making ends meet, but Iowa hog farmers do. Environmental controls pushed by groups like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Water…
Posted March 7, 2002 at 12:00 am

The End Of An Industry?

“This threat is greater than that in Afghanistan. This is not only a threat to the environment, it is a threat to the American economy and democracy.”…
Posted January 29, 2002 at 12:00 am

Waterkeepers, Farmers Weepers

Iowa hog farmers trying to make a living could be treated no better than mobsters if the Waterkeeper Alliance gets its way. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s anti-hog…
Posted December 12, 2001 at 12:00 am

On The Watch

With the nation’s mind turned to terrorism, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped up surveillance of Foreign Animal Disease…
Posted September 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Salmonella from eggs? A real-world risk assessment

“Isn’t everybody afraid to eat eggs?” asks the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Not so, reports the paper’s food editor, noting that egg consumption has risen about 20 percent since 1996. As for…
Posted August 23, 2001 at 12:00 am