Sustainable Dish

Another win for Big Ag and CAFO lovers alike. Ohio passed a constitutional amendment creating a “Livestock Care Standards Board”. While this may sound promising, it thwarts organizations such as the Humane Society from trying to improve the standards of animal care and prevents new laws from being passed such as the one in California banning battery cages. The Cattle Network kind of “reports”.

Frequent questions asked of vegetarians: “But don’t you need meat to live?” “How do you get your protein?” “Are you sickly and anemic if you don’t eat beef?” Marion Nestle comes to the rescue with a blog post on why it’s just fine not to eat animals.

Bisphenol A – the little plastic that causes big problems. Looks like it’s finally getting the attention it desperately deserves. Nicholas Kristof reports in the New York Times.

“H1N1” or “Swine Flu”, which do you prefer? The name that reveals the link to factory farming, or the sanitized white house version? Tom Philpott suggests the media get more comfortable with “swine flu” on Grist.

Factory farmed products may be in the overwhelming majority of the food we eat, but it can be avoided with a bit of gumption. Nicolette Hahn Niman gives a detailed roundup of the steps to eating food you can be comfortable with on the Huffington Post.