CAFOs
lborkowski | March 7, 2014A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Jim Morris, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer in a collaboration between the Weather Channel, InsideClimate News, and The Center for Public Integrity: Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale: Big Oil and Bad Air on the Texas Prairie
Brigid Schulte in the Washington Post: 'Mad Men' era of U.S. family policy coming to an end?
Tom Frieden at The Health Care Blog: CDC: Together We Can Provide Safer Patient Care
Farida Jhabvala Romero at Reporting on Health: California County Seeks to Eliminate Health Safety Net for the Undocumented
Ted Genoways at OnEarth: Hog Wild:…
denialism | May 7, 2012The New York Times has the results from when they posed the question, "is it ethical to eat meat?" The finalists, with one or two exceptions, are quite interesting. Certainly, when it comes to opinions about food, everyone has one, and the judges emphasized the variety of the opinions, and interestingly, the near unanimous belief that CAFOs are unethical (I'm with Pollan on that one). The only other topic at the NYT which seems to generate as much diversity of opinion, and frankly insane commentary, is child-rearing. But what I liked most about these finalists were the three writers who…