Healthier Meat & Dairy

Links and articles

Clone, clone on the range, Alex Roslin, straight.com, The Campaign.org. February 21, 2008.

Wanted: organic livestock feed, Sound Consumer, April 2007.

Pasturing: Cornerstone of Organic Dairy, a discussion of practives and values by the Organic Valley co-operative of dairy farmers.

Organic milk in glass jugs, letter to editor, Sound Consumer, March 2007.

The surprising truth about saturated fats. A nutritionist reviews research that undermines a presumed link between saturated fat and heart disease, suggesting that oils derived from hard seeds play a role and that all saturated fats are not equal; Sound Consumer, February 2006.

Industrialized farming costs, a study in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability calculates the cost in greenhouse emissions, damage to wildlife and diversity, human health; Sound Consumer, November 2005.

FDA rules on mad cow, loopholes allow the disease to spread, Sound Consumer, November 2005.

The Good Egg, free-range eggs are more nutritious than eggs from caged hens, Sound Consumer, November 2005.

Tillamook bans rBGH, Sound Consumer, April 2005.

Cougar Gold Cheese (contains rBGH), letter to the editor, Sound Consumer, December 2005.

Questions about dairy, letter to the editor, Sound Consumer, June 2003.

Links & articles — Mad cow/BSE

Tighten rules to safeguard beef, Trudy Bialic, PCC Director Public Affairs

AG Observatory (www.agobservatory.org/madcow), recent BSE articles and documents

Country Natural Beef

Dakota Beef

Why organic beef is safer than conventional beef, Q & A by Jim Riddle, National Organics Standards Board

Williamson Farms

Mad cow disease and U.S. regulations, Sound Consumer, April 2001