Farm Animals

Pork Is Finding Its Niche

Farmers of 'Free-Range' Hogs Ride the Surge in Demand

USDA Rules Out Mad Cow Disease in Animal

Testing Is Repeated to Verify Results After Earlier Assessments Had Raised Suspicions

Fighting for Local Control

Weakening local control to help create factory farms in Minnesota is a blueprint for the destruction of family farming.

As SE Asian Farms Boom, Stage Set for a Pandemic

...But with chickens now packed into farmyards alongside other livestock, international health experts warn that conditions are set for a bird flu pandemic that could kill millions worldwide if the virus developed into a form capable of spreading among humans.

The Merry-Go-Round of Beef

"Minimal risk" should be an unacceptable standard of safety for beef crossing American borders.

Japan Still Bans U.S. Beef, Chafing American Officials

Japan is still closed to American beef, as a result of a single case of mad cow disease detected in Washington State in December 2003.

How to Poison a River

New York is increasingly a state of mega-dairies, and when things go wrong with such operations, they go wrong in a mega-way.

Animal welfare issue boiling

Many firms in the industry have moved to undertake a number of changes in response to customer concerns. Jerry Hirsch, Times Staff Writer July 2, 2007

DawnWatch: Aussie media on downside of meat July 1-3, 2007

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The Worst Way of Farming

As new reports make it clear, the efficiency of industrial animal production is an illusion, made possible by prisonlike confinement systems.