Food – Page 27 – People's World

Pork corporations ending use of torturous crates

February 10, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Temple Grandin noted that a pig's life in a gestation crate is comparable to a person being stuck in an airline seat for their entire life.

Bayer’s ill-gotten factory farming profits

February 6, 2012 By Blake Skylar

There are potentially lethal strains of bacteria, traced to antibiotics produced by pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, present in pork, beef, and poultry

Food safety watchdog says poultry guidelines don’t go far enough

January 30, 2012 By Cory Collins

A new set of guidelines proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a welcome development but does not take enough steps to reduce bacteria levels, a consumer advocates' group said.

The Republicans’ pizza problem

November 29, 2011 By Susan Webb

Actually it's not the pizza. It's the tomato paste on the pizza. Do the Republicans have a thing about veggies?

FDA says it’s OK to turn bad food into sellable stuff

November 28, 2011 By John Wojcik

Turning tainted or even contaminated food into "edible" and profitable stuff is so common in the United States that virtually all producers do it.