+Food | January 5, 2012

Farm Drugs: The FDA Moves to Restrict (Somewhat) the Use of Antibiotics in Livestock

By Bryan Walsh

It’s no secret that America has a drug problem—so perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that our livestock have one as well. Antibiotics are a major part of the conventional meat industry, and the drugs aren’t just used to treat sick animals—they’re also given regularly in feed to help growth promotion of pigs, chickens and cattle. [...]

+Uncategorized | June 15, 2011

More Warming, More Rain, More Plague

By Tara Thean

Most of us learned about “the plague” or “the Black Death” a long time ago – reading Boccaccio and Petrarch, sitting in high school history class, and even from that debate about the nursery rhyme “ring-a-ring of roses.” But scientists have uncovered a link between this historic threat to human health and one that only [...]