Parting the Veil: What Really Happens in Factory Farms
I studied factory farms for years. Visiting one was far worse than I imagined. Excerpted from Our Symphony with Animals:...
Are Eggs Healthy for You — And for the Planet?
Are eggs an egg-cellent addition to a healthy diet? Or not?
Dunkin Donuts will switch to cage-free eggs
By Wayne Pacelle • Originally published on the Humane Society of the United States blog If you don’t think we are...
Clearing the Air About Factory Farming and Ag-Gag Laws
By Paul Shapiro What do our nation's farms and chemical manufacturing labs have in common? Well, for some pig factory farms...
Redefining Good Food at the Nation’s Largest Casual Restaurant Company
By Kari Hamerschlag, Friends of the Earth In these busy times, we spend nearly half our food budgets eating out....
Getting Creative Juices Flowing
I was ten-years-old when my dad first began to write Diet for a New America. It was the first book...
VIDEO: The Secrets of Food Marketing
Think you aren't being fooled by advertising tricks? Take a look at this so-called expert revealing food marketing's secret weapon. The...
The Truth About Grassfed Beef
Get answers about grassfed beef. Is it healthier? Better for the environment? What does it taste like? And how is...
How the Food Movement Is Gaining Strength
More and more people are realizing that our food chain is in crisis. Agribusiness has made profits more important than...
Greed, Cancer and Pink KFC Buckets
We live in a world of profound contradictions. Some things are just unbelievably strange. At times I feel like I’ve...
Could Anyone Find This Animal Abuse Tolerable?
On August 21, 2012, the USDA shut down operations at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, Calif. The facility, located...
Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease: Coming to a Burger Near You
Burger lovers never seem to have an easy time. In March 2012, news broke that the USDA's National School Lunch...