Feb 5, 2011: American Food Service recalls 3,170 pounds of ground beef due to E. coli contamination Jan 8, 2011: Columbus Meat Market recalls 780 pounds of beef patties due to E. coli contamination Dec 31, 2010: First Class Foods Inc. recalls 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef due to E. coli contamination Aug 30, …
Jan
28
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. is a fantastic summary of all the food-related issues in the US today. Marketing The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the previous 200. But we still use the same images of agarian America to sell food. Hillshire Farms, owned by Sarah Lee, a $12.8 billion …
Oct
09
Burgers That Can Shatter Lives
Last week, the New York Times published an in-depth article on how the flaws in our industrialized meat system can lead to devastating consequences, including death. It features the story of one woman who was paralyzed from the waist down by an E. coli contaminated hamburger. “I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why from a …
Aug
04
Meat's Not Green: Water
Nearly half of the water used in the U.S. is squandered on animal agriculture. Between watering the crops grown to feed farm animals, providing drinking water for billions of animals each year, and cleaning the filthy factory farms, transport trucks, and slaughterhouses, the farmed animal industry places a serious strain on our water supply. According …
Jun
10
What's Really In Your Hamburger
In the early 1900′s hamburgers had a reputation similar to hot dogs: tainted, unsafe to eat, food for the poor, sold only at carnivals (not in restaurants), made from old meat, laced with preservatives. In the 1920′s, White Castle, the nation’s first hamburger chain, worked extremely hard to reverse this image, even naming their chain …
May
27
Downed Cows
In February 2008, the USDA ordered the largest beef recall in US history – 143 million pounds of beef. The recall came 3 weeks after the Humane Society exposed the cattle abuse at a plant that supplies meat to 36 states and over 100,000 schools. Unfortunately, the recall included beef dated back to February 2006, …
May
13
Feeding Our Food (Part 1)
When we think of farm animals, we picture cows eating grass on the pasture, pigs rolling in mud troughs, and chickens pecking at the ground for grubs. Unfortunately, this is nowhere near reality. In fact, most of our farm animals are not raised on farms at all. Instead, they are raised in Confined Animal Feeding …
