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August 16, 2016 - Issue 3650


Sanderson Farms Refuses to Reduce Use of Antibiotics

Sanderson Farms Refuses to Reduce Use of Antibiotics

August 16, 2016

Want safe food? Avoid this company's wares like the plague. They call it '100% natural' - yet they're feeding their chickens antibiotics. Now they're running malicious ads poking fun at their clean competitors, wrongfully accusing the antibiotic-free movement of being a sham.

The Price of Pork

pork market price

August 16, 2016

The row upon row of cheap pork chops and bacon at most US grocery stores do not reveal the high price paid for its production. At pig CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), the animals, local residents and the environment suffer immensely from this industrialized form of food production.

Zika: Brazil Admits It's Not the Virus

Zika Virus Exposure

August 16, 2016

A handful of Zika cases discovered in Miami, Florida has renewed the hysteria over this so-called emergency. Meanwhile, Brazilian officials quietly admitted that Zika virus may not have been the sole culprit in rising rates of the birth defect microcephaly.