News tagged with 'Factory Farming'

A research team looked at 90 dispensed beverages and found 70 percent had bacterial contamination that would not be allowed in municipal drinking water.

Antibiotic resistant diseases are an urgent problem that has one immediate solution, backing off on feeding 70 percent of the U.S. antibiotics to farm animals, about 28 million pounds a year.

A new vaccine given to cattle, may keep E. coli from shedding from the animal into our food supply. But getting to the root of the problem - the new documentary, "Food Inc." explores how agribusiness and factory farming methods have increased E. coli contamination and foodborne illnesses in the first place.  

Can salmon be organic? The short answer is no, but that's not stopping the National Organic Standards Board from meeting Monday to discuss that possibility.  There are too many variables out at sea, critics charge, pointing to the industry as a slight improvement over industrialized factory-farming agriculture at sea.