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Phrases Newly Banned At USDA Include ‘Safe Drinking Water’ and ‘Climate Change,’ Leaked Memo Reveals
Over 100 words and phrases are now banned, many of them essential to any discussion of climate.
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Overfishing Harms the Environment. Is There a Way Out?
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RFK’s Promise to Take Farming Back 80 Years Isn’t Plausible
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Pennsylvania Egg Brand Agrees to Drop Deceptive ‘Free-Roaming’ Label
Food•5 min read
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What Food Webs Are & How Cattle Ranching Harms Them
Many factors affect biodiversity, but meat production is particularly destructive.
Climate•10 min read
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Smithfield Foods Is Owned by China, but Pollution and Price-Fixing Are the Real Problem
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High-Protein Diets Are Popular — but They Certainly Aren’t Sustainable
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The Ugly, if Unsurprising, Truth About Collagen
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The Italian Far Right’s Beef with Vegans and Immigrants
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How Ads for Meat, Milk and Eggs Sell You a Fantasy
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How Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and Musk Are Trying — or Not Trying — to Make Meat Sustainable
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Why Egg Farming Practices Spread Avian Flu
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Axed Once, USDA Employees Anxiously Await Potentially Being Fired Again
Many employees have been reinstated, but the Trump administration is moving forward with plans to slash federal jobs.
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The Beef Industry Knew Its Climate Impact as Early as 1989 — and Worked to Obfuscate the Science
Two new studies reveal decades of industry tactics to downplay beef’s role in climate.
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Venison Donated to Food Banks May Contain Lead. The NRA Could Be Why.
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How U.S. Taxpayers Bailed Out the Poultry Industry, and Helped Entrench Avian Flu
The U.S. has failed to contain bird flu. The $1.46 billion industry bailout is one reason why.
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Meat Industry Group Asks Trump To Deregulate Meatpacking and Factory Farms
Amid a deregulatory blitz, trade group pushes for rollback on environmental regulations, worker protections and food safety.
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How a Group of Immigrant Farmworkers Is Preparing for Avian Flu to Hit New York Dairy Farms
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Plans to End Male Chick Culling Stall in U.S.
Egg producer Kipster is still moving forward with in-ovo sexing technology.
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