An article in the current issue of Environmental Health Perspectives highlights the connection between animal agriculture and the most pressing environmental issue of our time—climate change. Published in the peer-reviewed journal of the U.S. government's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a subdivision of the National Institutes of Health, the piece written by staff members of The Humane Society of the United States will reach public health and environmental experts and policy makers worldwide. [...more]
Campaign Is First Ever National Consumer Initiative to Address Climate Change Crisis through Food Choices
Sign-On “Cool Foods” Pledge Encourages Restaurants and Food Retailers to Reduce Their “Foodprint” by Making Responsible and Sustainable Food Choices
New York, NY, April 16th, 2008 - This afternoon the Center for Food Safety and the CornerStone Campaign announced the launch of the [...] [...more]
The recall of 143 million pounds of beef processed over the past two years is the largest meat recall in the history of the world. The USDA had no choice following an animal group's release of videotape of "downer" cows being dragged across filthy floors and pushed around by a fork lift, before joining their healthier brethren on the hamburger highway. Since we all agree that the primary responsibility of the USDA is food safety, the question is, where were the USDA inspectors? The answer may be that for several years, the top priority at the USDA has not been food safety, but the creation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). [...more]
