| Jan 31, 2011 | Food / FarmingOf course you want your meat to be cheap, but the costs of producing so-called cheap meat come at a hidden price you might not want to pay. Corporate giant Smithfield Foods and other major producers use what is known as confinement or factory farming–keeping...
| Nov 22, 2010 | Food / FarmingMost Americans view cheap meat as a good thing, but they generally don’t understand who pays the high cost of the policies making it inexpensive. More than 80 percent of the beef, pork and poultry consumed in this country comes from livestock fed and processed...
| Sep 6, 2010 | Food / FarmingThis mind-boggling egg recall, involving half a billion eggs from Iowa, is no fluke. It’s just the latest example of how the consolidation of our nation’s food production puts consumers at risk. The recall involves 30 different brands but only two factory...
| Aug 23, 2010 | Food / FarmingThe vast Iowa egg recall is terrifying. So far, half a billion eggs are involved. Who knows how many we have already eaten? Our health authorities say about 1,300 Americans have gotten salmonella from them so far. I spend a lot of time cooking for my two preschoolers...
| | Rights / DemocracyHere’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which includes an op-ed by Chris Toensing on the upcoming and lackluster U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and a column by Donald Kaul about unlikely advocates for ditching the Bush tax cuts for...
