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Slash Meat Consumption and Avert Climate Catastrophe, Says New Blueprint for 'Sustainable Food Future' by 2050

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As Rumors Mount Zinke's Days Are Numbered, Warnings About 'Man Behind the Curtain' Who Could Take Over Interior

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Deputy secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt

Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt is an ex-lobbyist with "so many potential conflicts of interest he has to carry a small card listing them all."

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200+ Groups Call on Senate to Reject 'Pesticide Industry Loyalist' Scott Hutchins as USDA's Top Scientist

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Agricultural workers in Salinas, California. (Photo: Michael Davidson/flickr/cc)

"The Trump Administration has, again, proven that they are more interested in...

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In 'Loud and Clear' Rebuke of Factory Farming, California Passes World's 'Strongest Animal Welfare Law'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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While some animal rights advocates argue Proposition 12 won't prevent routine...

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'Sleepwalking Towards Edge of a Cliff': 60% of Earth's Wildlife Gone Since 1970

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'Hugely Important Breakthrough for Human and Animal Health' as EU Approves Antibiotic Restrictions for Livestock to Battle Superbugs

3 Women Charged With Grand Theft Felony For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow

To Save the Planet From Climate Catastrophe, New Study Says Put Down the Damn Meat

Condemning Modi's 'Anti-People Policies' Ahead of India's Election, Striking Farmers and Workers Grind New Delhi to Halt

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New 'Groundbreaking' Bill Would Put Firm Pause on Out-of-Control Food Industry Mega-Mergers

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'Guilty on All Counts!': In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit

Earliest "Earth Overshoot Day" Ever Expected for 2018 as Consumption of Natural Resources Accelerates

"Most of the top 35 global meat and dairy giants either do not report or underreport their emissions. Only four of them provide complete, credible emissions estimates." (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Emissions Impossible: How Big Meat and Dairy Are Heating Up the Planet

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Aaack! New Analysis Shows Superbugs Lurking on Three-Fourths of U.S. Supermarket Meat

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'No Such Thing as Cheap Meat': Global Index Shows Industry Failure to Combat Climate Crisis, Antibiotic Resistance

Hundreds Rally, Dozens Arrested in Effort to Save Chickens from 'Horrific Cruelty' at Industrial Egg Farm

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Food & Water Watch

Coalition Files Suit Against USDA on Factory Farms

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Groups File Suit to Require Environmental Review for Public Loans to Animal Operations

Food & Water Watch

Another Friday News Dump: USDA Posts Alarming Data About Privatized Inspection at Poultry Plants

Direct Action Everywhere

Massive Farm Releases 100 Turkeys -- to Activists Facing Felony Charges For Investigating It

Food & Water Watch

Over 200 Farm, Food and Rural Groups Endorse Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Bills

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits

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Michael Carolan

A Sharing Economy for Plants: Seed Libraries Are Sprouting Up

Zenobia Barlow

When a Warming Climate Threatens Your Dinner Plate

Christopher D. Cook

To Address the Climate Crisis, We Must Completely Rethink How We Produce and Consume Food

Cameron Harsh

How to Combat Climate Change with What You Eat

Michael Sainato, Chelsea Skojec

Police Arrest 58 Activists After Factory Conditions Exposed at 'Free Range' Perdue Supplier

Anthony Pahnke, Jim Goodman

Bad Farm Policy Contributes to Natural Disasters

Lorraine Chow

3.4 Million Chickens, 5,500 Hogs Killed in Florence's Flooding

Timothy Wise

'This Is Life or Death for Us': Mexico's Farm Movement Rejects New NAFTA Agreement

Ruchi Shroff

Monsanto-Bayer: Eliminating the Name Will Not Erase the History

John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto

Coffee and the Shock Doctrine in Puerto Rico

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