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That means that, instead of taking his animals to a large commercial slaughterhouse, he can slaughter his own pigs and lambs each week, all within the confines of the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes time for them to be harvested, we walk them to the slaughterhouse. So they never get on a trailer, they never have to experience the stress that goes along with most slaughterhouses,\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His livestock live their entire lives on this farm, from birth to harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Double Brook works to reduce the stress on its animals for a few reasons: McConaughy thinks the quality of the life of an animal is just as important as the quality of its death. And, secondly, stress can ruin meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stress hormones affect the acid levels, which affect the meat to the point in some cases where it's inedible,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On slaughter day, lambs and pigs are walked to the back of the slaughterhouse, which looks like a barn from the outside. The pigs grow up in the shadow of the building, and it's a short walk from their pasture to the holding pen. Then about 10 of each animal are selected for harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say that's probably the hardest thing for me, is that on that particular day, why are those the ones chosen?\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last pig of the day is waiting in the holding pen, snorting and walking around the enclosure that held nine of its litter mates before. He has beady black eyes like marbles and is covered in dirt and coarse black hairs. Butchers herd him down a curved path into the slaughterhouse. Once inside, a gate is closed behind him and he stands in what's called the knock box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butchers pet the pig and talk to him, while another butcher prepares the captive bolt — a bullet that is shot into the pig's head to render it unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a commercial slaughterhouse, there is a pig every 15 to 20 seconds. We're watching the process right now and we have probably been sitting here for a minute and a half, watching this whole thing going on,\" McConaughy explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butchers get the pig in place and the captive bolt fires with a loud crack. They open the gate and the pig falls to the floor. They take a knife and slice open its jugular vein, and the pig's blood spills out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The heart will continue to beat for another three or four minutes after the brain has been killed. And so the animal will continue to move and convulse,\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pig twists and writhes in its own blood until it stops moving. The butchers, clad in heavy aprons and black rubber boots, lift the lifeless body into a metal machine, which boils its hair off. When the pig comes out it looks less like an animal and more like meat — its flesh is pink and clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A butcher then pops the toenails off with a knife. Another takes a blowtorch to scorch the remainder of the hair. They saw into the breast plate until the bone cracks, and use a giant serrated knife to cut the head off. Chains jangle as they hoist the body to the ceiling. One butcher slices the stomach and the guts plop into a metal wheelbarrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I happen to think that the slaughter process is something that most people should watch if they're going to eat animals, and if it turns them away from animals, then that's probably a good thing,\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks being exposed to the slaughter process helps people connect the meat on their plate to the animal it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences with our kids versus other kids is that they very, very rarely waste anything,\" McConaughy says. \"They understand that these animals gave their lives for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paige Pfleger reports for WHYY's health and science show,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://whyy.org/thepulse\">The Pulse\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on an episode of its podcast called \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pulse/id772127662?mt=2\">The Meat Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.whyy.org\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY\u003c/a>, Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Livestock farmer Jon McConaughy's animals live their whole lives on his farm - and die there, too, in his slaughterhouse. 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And, secondly, stress can ruin meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stress hormones affect the acid levels, which affect the meat to the point in some cases where it's inedible,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On slaughter day, lambs and pigs are walked to the back of the slaughterhouse, which looks like a barn from the outside. The pigs grow up in the shadow of the building, and it's a short walk from their pasture to the holding pen. Then about 10 of each animal are selected for harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say that's probably the hardest thing for me, is that on that particular day, why are those the ones chosen?\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last pig of the day is waiting in the holding pen, snorting and walking around the enclosure that held nine of its litter mates before. He has beady black eyes like marbles and is covered in dirt and coarse black hairs. Butchers herd him down a curved path into the slaughterhouse. Once inside, a gate is closed behind him and he stands in what's called the knock box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butchers pet the pig and talk to him, while another butcher prepares the captive bolt — a bullet that is shot into the pig's head to render it unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a commercial slaughterhouse, there is a pig every 15 to 20 seconds. We're watching the process right now and we have probably been sitting here for a minute and a half, watching this whole thing going on,\" McConaughy explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butchers get the pig in place and the captive bolt fires with a loud crack. They open the gate and the pig falls to the floor. They take a knife and slice open its jugular vein, and the pig's blood spills out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The heart will continue to beat for another three or four minutes after the brain has been killed. And so the animal will continue to move and convulse,\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pig twists and writhes in its own blood until it stops moving. The butchers, clad in heavy aprons and black rubber boots, lift the lifeless body into a metal machine, which boils its hair off. When the pig comes out it looks less like an animal and more like meat — its flesh is pink and clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A butcher then pops the toenails off with a knife. Another takes a blowtorch to scorch the remainder of the hair. They saw into the breast plate until the bone cracks, and use a giant serrated knife to cut the head off. Chains jangle as they hoist the body to the ceiling. One butcher slices the stomach and the guts plop into a metal wheelbarrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I happen to think that the slaughter process is something that most people should watch if they're going to eat animals, and if it turns them away from animals, then that's probably a good thing,\" McConaughy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks being exposed to the slaughter process helps people connect the meat on their plate to the animal it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences with our kids versus other kids is that they very, very rarely waste anything,\" McConaughy says. \"They understand that these animals gave their lives for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Paige Pfleger reports for WHYY's health and science show,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://whyy.org/thepulse\">The Pulse\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on an episode of its podcast called \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pulse/id772127662?mt=2\">The Meat Show\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.whyy.org\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY\u003c/a>, Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/117954/this-farmer-wants-to-give-animals-a-better-life-and-death","authors":["byline_bayareabites_117954"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_13253","bayareabites_8914"],"featImg":"bayareabites_117955","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_116469":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_116469","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"116469","score":null,"sort":[1490976163000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-global-dangers-of-industrial-meat","title":"The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat","publishDate":1490976163,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>The world’s largest beef manufacturer is in trouble. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-17/brazil-meat-producers-jbs-brf-probed-in-alleged-bribery-scheme\">Reports have emerged\u003c/a> that employees in over a dozen plants knowingly packed rancid meat, covering up the smell with acid, slabs of which were then sold on to schools and Walmart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this happened not in the U.S., though, but in Brazil, headquarters to meatpacking giant JBS. Named for its founder, Jose Batista Sobrinho, the company turns over almost as much as the next three largest U.S. beef producers—Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef—combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Egypt has already banned Brazilian beef, and U.S. Senator John Tester (D-Montana) recently introduced legislation to prevent Brazilian beef from entering into the country, even as JBS \u003ca href=\"http://agnetwest.com/2017/03/27/jbs-suspends-brazil-product-meat-scandal/\">suspended meat production\u003c/a> at 33 of its 36 Brazilian meatpacking plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But choosing “America First” for your steak misses two far larger points. The Brazilian giant is simply striving \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-19/brazilian-meatpacker-jbs-wrangles-the-u-dot-s-dot-beef-industry\">to adopt ideas from, and buy out companies\u003c/a> in, the U.S. meat industry. \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/history/\">Pilgrim’s, Cargill’s pork business and Smithfield’s beef operation\u003c/a> have been acquired by what Bloomberg once called \u003ca href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/3086336-jbs-corporation-getting-to-know-one-of-the-largest-food-companies-in-the-world\">the world’s second largest packaged food company\u003c/a> (behind Nestlé).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if you could stop the import of dodgy sausage, you still couldn’t avoid the bigger planetary impact of the beef industry, because it’s airborne. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), meat and dairy production alone now generates \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/Newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html\">more greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> than all the world’s transport combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by industrial livestock occur indirectly, through the production of grains to feed to animals that then get fed to humans. In 2010, about one-third of all cereals on Earth went to animal feed, and the FAO predicts this figure will reach \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/report-10-elaboration-process/en/\">50 percent\u003c/a> by 2050. More feed means more land under cultivation. And feed crops like soybean, maize, and sorghum are usually grown with chemical fertilizers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n10/pdf/ngeo325.pdf\">themselves another potent source of greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, consumption is soaring, made possible by widespread marketing and producing meat that’s cheap to buy—even if those low prices are made possible through dangerous and poorly paid jobs, lax environmental practices, corporate subsidies, and dreadful living conditions for animals. If current trends continue, the FAO predicts world meat consumption will grow a further 76 percent by 2050. If, on the other hand, people kept their level of meat consumption to the World Health Organization’s recommended guidelines, the world could reduce \u003ca href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/isee/2016-o-035-3305/\">40 percent\u003c/a> of all current greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, this advice hasn’t been well received by the meat, fertilizer, pesticide, and processing industries. Industrial meat concerns \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/sep/22/food-firms-lobbying-samuel-jutzi\">blasted the FAO\u003c/a> after they put out a report in 2006 on the role of livestock in the climate crisis. “You wouldn’t believe how much we were attacked,” said Samuel Jutzi, director of the animal production and health division this UN agency. The FAO soon buckled under the pressure and agreed to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/fao-yields-to-meat-industry-pressure-on-climate-change/?_r=0\">partnership\u003c/a> with the meat industry’s main lobby groups and shifted the focus of its work accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian academic \u003ca href=\"http://ecologicalhoofprint.org/\">Tony Weis\u003c/a> has a term for what’s happening here: the world’s diet, food system, and food policy are being “meatified.” The corporations doing it are increasingly based in the global South, where most of the world’s future industrial meat eaters live, and those firms are doing roaring business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5639-grabbing-the-bull-by-the-horns-it-s-time-to-cut-industrial-meat-and-dairy-to-save-the-climate\">recent report by GRAIN shows\u003c/a> that JBS is also the world’s largest poultry producer. The world’s largest pork producer is the Chinese WH Group, and France’s Lactalis Group is the world’s largest dairy producer. These firms, together with more-established U.S. and European ones, work hard to increase their control over the market: They blunt domestic government attempts to regulate them, they spur demand across the world, and they destroy the livestock practices of small-scale farmers in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Propping Up the Meat Market\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Germany drafted guidelines to reduce meat consumption, demonstrating that a 50 percent cut by 2030 would be “crucial to climate protection,” the industry lobbied. Hard. By the November 2016 launch date, the country’s climate change plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-trimmed-down-climate-action-plan\">had been gutted\u003c/a>, and stripped of any reference at all to greenhouse gases in the agriculture sector. Similar stories can be told of U.S. efforts and those, predictably, in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite industry opposition to certain kinds of regulation, they’re very happy to suck at the teat of government subsidy. In 2013, OECD countries \u003ca href=\"https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/livestock-climate-change-forgotten-sector-global-public-opinion-meat-and-dairy\">dished out\u003c/a> $53 billion to livestock producers, with the EU paying $731 million to its cattle industry alone The same year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcrm.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Who's-Making-Money-from-Overweight-Kids.pdf\">paid more than $500 million to just 62 producers\u003c/a> (starting with Tyson Foods) in order to get meat and dairy on school meal trays, compared to just a fraction of that to fruit and vegetable suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the big guns in the industry’s arsenal are “free trade” agreements. These trade deals \u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/e/5639\">artificially prop up production and consumption\u003c/a> by promoting the dumping of cheap meat and dairy into poor countries’ economies. They include clauses that eliminate protections for local farmers from foreign competitors. They also make it illegal to grant preference to local suppliers or products and they make government regulations subject to investor-state dispute settlement under which a foreign company can sue governments that adopt social or environmental legislation that they think undermines their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2.jpg\" alt=\"Contrasting the broader carbon footprint of factory farm animals vs animals from small-scale, mixed farms using a systems lens.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"808\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-768x517.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contrasting the broader carbon footprint of factory farm animals vs animals from small-scale, mixed farms using a systems lens.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all meat production is the same, of course. Small scale mixed farmers and herders who graze animals on land where crops often cannot be grown are the sustainable old-guard. Their production and consumption systems contribute relatively few greenhouse gases, while improving family nutrition and livelihoods and forming an integral part of people’s cultural and religious traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if they’re better for the planet, small-scale farmers and ranchers don’t have the political clout that industry has. Factory farms are the most rapidly growing segment of meat and dairy production, accounting for \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldwatch.org/rising-number-farm-animals-poses-environmental-and-public-health-risks-0\">80 percent of the growth\u003c/a> of global meat and dairy in recent years. Industrial livestock production has grown at twice the annual rate of traditional, diversified farming systems, and at more than six times the annual growth rate of production based on grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Change is Possible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it’s not unimaginable to shift, at scale, away from industrial meat. Last month, Friends of the Earth and Oakland Unified School District\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2017/03/09/less-meat-better-food-happier-kids-oakland-unified-reinvents-its-school-lunch/\"> published the result\u003c/a> of a unique two-year experiment. The district reduced animal protein on school menus by 30 percent while increasing fruit, vegetables, and legumes. When kids ate meat, it came from local organic producers. The result: a 14 percent reduction in the school’s food carbon footprint and $42,000 savings in the cost of the meals. Perhaps most remarkable: the children reported increased satisfaction with the healthy, regionally sourced meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland school initiative is smart and, unlike the U.S. meat industry’s practices, deserves to be shared and spread widely. But we can’t just default to letting our children solve climate change for us. Voting with one’s fork or school menu is important, but that alone won’t restore small-scale production, and it won’t detoxify agricultural politics of corporate influence. Larger-scale policy change is vital. Some governments—including \u003ca href=\"http://www.jordbruksverket.se/download/18.5df17f1c13c13e5bc4f800039403/En+h%8Cllbar+k%9Attkonsumtion.pdf\">Sweden\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/03/cut-meat-say-new-netherlands-dietary-guidelines/\">Netherlands\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/20/chinas-meat-consumption-climate-change\">China\u003c/a>—have started formulating recommendations that people eat less meat in the interest of reducing climate emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De-meatifying the world will require more from legislators, and more from consumers. It will mean rejecting the meat-marketing and the fertilizer, feed, and fossil fuel industries, too. It will mean pushing back on the trade agreements of which these industries are so fond—and doing so without backing into the nationalism of the right. (It is striking that earlier this year we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TomiLahren/videos/1190032107756641/\">a Trump supporter\u003c/a> go head-to-head against \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BeefUSA/videos/vb.119381467680/10154282483617681/?type=3&theater\">the U.S. meatpacking industry\u003c/a> in defense of sustainable beef.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rift between the left and the right around climate change turns on whether you think industrial meatification is an unintended consequence of the food system or its embodiment. If it’s no accident that today’s food system exploits animals, humans and nature, then it’s clear that a radically transformed system—one that moves beyond capitalism—is what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying America First won’t save us from the worst of Big Meat. But it looks as if there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.r-calfusa.com/\">many\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.worc.org/\">ranchers\u003c/a>, educators, and \u003ca href=\"http://nffc.net/\">small-scale farmers\u003c/a> who are ready to take a more radical stand. If consumers are ready to boycott Big Meat for good, permanently choosing to support sustainable animal raising by paying more for it, there’s hope for us all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Authors\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/\">GRAIN\u003c/a> is a small, international non-profit collective that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Patel is an activist, academic and author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing. You can follow him on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_RajPatel\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Through lobbying, marketing, and proselytizing about cheap meat, the global meat industry is working hard to keep industrially produced meat on the menu, sometimes with disastrous consequences.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490976163,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1583},"headData":{"title":"The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat | KQED","description":"Through lobbying, marketing, and proselytizing about cheap meat, the global meat industry is working hard to keep industrially produced meat on the menu, sometimes with disastrous consequences.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat","datePublished":"2017-03-31T16:02:43.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-31T16:02:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"116469 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=116469","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/03/31/the-global-dangers-of-industrial-meat/","disqusTitle":"The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/grain/\">Grain\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/rpatel/\">Raj Patel\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/civileat/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/116469/the-global-dangers-of-industrial-meat","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The world’s largest beef manufacturer is in trouble. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-17/brazil-meat-producers-jbs-brf-probed-in-alleged-bribery-scheme\">Reports have emerged\u003c/a> that employees in over a dozen plants knowingly packed rancid meat, covering up the smell with acid, slabs of which were then sold on to schools and Walmart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this happened not in the U.S., though, but in Brazil, headquarters to meatpacking giant JBS. Named for its founder, Jose Batista Sobrinho, the company turns over almost as much as the next three largest U.S. beef producers—Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef—combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Egypt has already banned Brazilian beef, and U.S. Senator John Tester (D-Montana) recently introduced legislation to prevent Brazilian beef from entering into the country, even as JBS \u003ca href=\"http://agnetwest.com/2017/03/27/jbs-suspends-brazil-product-meat-scandal/\">suspended meat production\u003c/a> at 33 of its 36 Brazilian meatpacking plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But choosing “America First” for your steak misses two far larger points. The Brazilian giant is simply striving \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-19/brazilian-meatpacker-jbs-wrangles-the-u-dot-s-dot-beef-industry\">to adopt ideas from, and buy out companies\u003c/a> in, the U.S. meat industry. \u003ca href=\"http://jbssa.com/about/history/\">Pilgrim’s, Cargill’s pork business and Smithfield’s beef operation\u003c/a> have been acquired by what Bloomberg once called \u003ca href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/3086336-jbs-corporation-getting-to-know-one-of-the-largest-food-companies-in-the-world\">the world’s second largest packaged food company\u003c/a> (behind Nestlé).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if you could stop the import of dodgy sausage, you still couldn’t avoid the bigger planetary impact of the beef industry, because it’s airborne. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), meat and dairy production alone now generates \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/Newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html\">more greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> than all the world’s transport combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by industrial livestock occur indirectly, through the production of grains to feed to animals that then get fed to humans. In 2010, about one-third of all cereals on Earth went to animal feed, and the FAO predicts this figure will reach \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/report-10-elaboration-process/en/\">50 percent\u003c/a> by 2050. More feed means more land under cultivation. And feed crops like soybean, maize, and sorghum are usually grown with chemical fertilizers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n10/pdf/ngeo325.pdf\">themselves another potent source of greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, consumption is soaring, made possible by widespread marketing and producing meat that’s cheap to buy—even if those low prices are made possible through dangerous and poorly paid jobs, lax environmental practices, corporate subsidies, and dreadful living conditions for animals. If current trends continue, the FAO predicts world meat consumption will grow a further 76 percent by 2050. If, on the other hand, people kept their level of meat consumption to the World Health Organization’s recommended guidelines, the world could reduce \u003ca href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/isee/2016-o-035-3305/\">40 percent\u003c/a> of all current greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, this advice hasn’t been well received by the meat, fertilizer, pesticide, and processing industries. Industrial meat concerns \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/sep/22/food-firms-lobbying-samuel-jutzi\">blasted the FAO\u003c/a> after they put out a report in 2006 on the role of livestock in the climate crisis. “You wouldn’t believe how much we were attacked,” said Samuel Jutzi, director of the animal production and health division this UN agency. The FAO soon buckled under the pressure and agreed to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/fao-yields-to-meat-industry-pressure-on-climate-change/?_r=0\">partnership\u003c/a> with the meat industry’s main lobby groups and shifted the focus of its work accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian academic \u003ca href=\"http://ecologicalhoofprint.org/\">Tony Weis\u003c/a> has a term for what’s happening here: the world’s diet, food system, and food policy are being “meatified.” The corporations doing it are increasingly based in the global South, where most of the world’s future industrial meat eaters live, and those firms are doing roaring business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5639-grabbing-the-bull-by-the-horns-it-s-time-to-cut-industrial-meat-and-dairy-to-save-the-climate\">recent report by GRAIN shows\u003c/a> that JBS is also the world’s largest poultry producer. The world’s largest pork producer is the Chinese WH Group, and France’s Lactalis Group is the world’s largest dairy producer. These firms, together with more-established U.S. and European ones, work hard to increase their control over the market: They blunt domestic government attempts to regulate them, they spur demand across the world, and they destroy the livestock practices of small-scale farmers in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Propping Up the Meat Market\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Germany drafted guidelines to reduce meat consumption, demonstrating that a 50 percent cut by 2030 would be “crucial to climate protection,” the industry lobbied. Hard. By the November 2016 launch date, the country’s climate change plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-trimmed-down-climate-action-plan\">had been gutted\u003c/a>, and stripped of any reference at all to greenhouse gases in the agriculture sector. Similar stories can be told of U.S. efforts and those, predictably, in Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite industry opposition to certain kinds of regulation, they’re very happy to suck at the teat of government subsidy. In 2013, OECD countries \u003ca href=\"https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/livestock-climate-change-forgotten-sector-global-public-opinion-meat-and-dairy\">dished out\u003c/a> $53 billion to livestock producers, with the EU paying $731 million to its cattle industry alone The same year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcrm.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Who's-Making-Money-from-Overweight-Kids.pdf\">paid more than $500 million to just 62 producers\u003c/a> (starting with Tyson Foods) in order to get meat and dairy on school meal trays, compared to just a fraction of that to fruit and vegetable suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the big guns in the industry’s arsenal are “free trade” agreements. These trade deals \u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/e/5639\">artificially prop up production and consumption\u003c/a> by promoting the dumping of cheap meat and dairy into poor countries’ economies. They include clauses that eliminate protections for local farmers from foreign competitors. They also make it illegal to grant preference to local suppliers or products and they make government regulations subject to investor-state dispute settlement under which a foreign company can sue governments that adopt social or environmental legislation that they think undermines their profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2.jpg\" alt=\"Contrasting the broader carbon footprint of factory farm animals vs animals from small-scale, mixed farms using a systems lens.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"808\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-768x517.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-960x646.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/170329-meat-2-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contrasting the broader carbon footprint of factory farm animals vs animals from small-scale, mixed farms using a systems lens.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all meat production is the same, of course. Small scale mixed farmers and herders who graze animals on land where crops often cannot be grown are the sustainable old-guard. Their production and consumption systems contribute relatively few greenhouse gases, while improving family nutrition and livelihoods and forming an integral part of people’s cultural and religious traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if they’re better for the planet, small-scale farmers and ranchers don’t have the political clout that industry has. Factory farms are the most rapidly growing segment of meat and dairy production, accounting for \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldwatch.org/rising-number-farm-animals-poses-environmental-and-public-health-risks-0\">80 percent of the growth\u003c/a> of global meat and dairy in recent years. Industrial livestock production has grown at twice the annual rate of traditional, diversified farming systems, and at more than six times the annual growth rate of production based on grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Change is Possible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it’s not unimaginable to shift, at scale, away from industrial meat. Last month, Friends of the Earth and Oakland Unified School District\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2017/03/09/less-meat-better-food-happier-kids-oakland-unified-reinvents-its-school-lunch/\"> published the result\u003c/a> of a unique two-year experiment. The district reduced animal protein on school menus by 30 percent while increasing fruit, vegetables, and legumes. When kids ate meat, it came from local organic producers. The result: a 14 percent reduction in the school’s food carbon footprint and $42,000 savings in the cost of the meals. Perhaps most remarkable: the children reported increased satisfaction with the healthy, regionally sourced meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland school initiative is smart and, unlike the U.S. meat industry’s practices, deserves to be shared and spread widely. But we can’t just default to letting our children solve climate change for us. Voting with one’s fork or school menu is important, but that alone won’t restore small-scale production, and it won’t detoxify agricultural politics of corporate influence. Larger-scale policy change is vital. Some governments—including \u003ca href=\"http://www.jordbruksverket.se/download/18.5df17f1c13c13e5bc4f800039403/En+h%8Cllbar+k%9Attkonsumtion.pdf\">Sweden\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/03/cut-meat-say-new-netherlands-dietary-guidelines/\">Netherlands\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/20/chinas-meat-consumption-climate-change\">China\u003c/a>—have started formulating recommendations that people eat less meat in the interest of reducing climate emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De-meatifying the world will require more from legislators, and more from consumers. It will mean rejecting the meat-marketing and the fertilizer, feed, and fossil fuel industries, too. It will mean pushing back on the trade agreements of which these industries are so fond—and doing so without backing into the nationalism of the right. (It is striking that earlier this year we saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TomiLahren/videos/1190032107756641/\">a Trump supporter\u003c/a> go head-to-head against \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BeefUSA/videos/vb.119381467680/10154282483617681/?type=3&theater\">the U.S. meatpacking industry\u003c/a> in defense of sustainable beef.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rift between the left and the right around climate change turns on whether you think industrial meatification is an unintended consequence of the food system or its embodiment. If it’s no accident that today’s food system exploits animals, humans and nature, then it’s clear that a radically transformed system—one that moves beyond capitalism—is what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying America First won’t save us from the worst of Big Meat. But it looks as if there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.r-calfusa.com/\">many\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.worc.org/\">ranchers\u003c/a>, educators, and \u003ca href=\"http://nffc.net/\">small-scale farmers\u003c/a> who are ready to take a more radical stand. If consumers are ready to boycott Big Meat for good, permanently choosing to support sustainable animal raising by paying more for it, there’s hope for us all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Authors\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.grain.org/\">GRAIN\u003c/a> is a small, international non-profit collective that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Patel is an activist, academic and author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing. You can follow him on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_RajPatel\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/116469/the-global-dangers-of-industrial-meat","authors":["byline_bayareabites_116469"],"categories":["bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_13636","bayareabites_12363","bayareabites_15800","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_243"],"featImg":"bayareabites_116473","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_114364":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_114364","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"114364","score":null,"sort":[1482462129000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics","title":"Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics","publishDate":1482462129,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It's a continuing paradox of the meat industry. Every year, more restaurants and food companies announce that they will sell only meat produced with minimal or no use of antibiotics. And every year, despite those pledges, more antibiotics are administered to the nation's swine, cattle and poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm534244.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">figures\u003c/a>, released this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, antibiotic sales for use on farm animals increased by 1 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year. The increase was slightly greater – 2 percent — for antibiotics used as human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA and other public health agencies have been pushing farmers to rely less on these drugs. Heavy use of antibiotics both in human medicine and in agriculture has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, complicating the task of treating many infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the FDA finds a glimmer of good news in the latest figures, pointing out that the rate of increase has slowed. In the previous year, antibiotic use had increased by 4 percent, and a total of 22 percent from 2009 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry has made the most ambitious promises to reduce antibiotic use. Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/07/497033243/perdue-goes-almost-antibiotic-free\">says\u003c/a> that 95 percent of its chickens already are raised with no antibiotics at all. Tyson Foods, the largest producer, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/media/news-releases/2015/04/antibiotics-announcement.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that it is \"striving\" to end the use of antibiotics that also are used in human medicine. Tyson will continue to deploy a class of antibiotics called ionophores, which can't be used on humans. The new report, however, doesn't shed any light on the impact of these moves, because it doesn't show how much of each drug is used on cattle, swine or poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, David Wallinga, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that \"this report further underscores how urgently we need more and stronger government action\" to reduce antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Phillips, from the Animal Health Institute, which represents veterinary drug manufacturers, says that the FDA's data on drug sales tell us little about what's most important — whether the use of those drugs is leading to more drug-resistant bacteria. He says that another recent government \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm529719.htm\">report\u003c/a>, from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, shows \"very encouraging trends.\" According to that report, bacteria found on meat at slaughter have not shown increasing resistance to most antibiotics in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some concerning trends, however. Some species of bacteria found on cattle have shown increasing levels of resistance to ciproflaxin, and turkey samples showed a big increase in Salmonella that's resistant to several different drugs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many meat producers say they are reducing their use of antibiotics. 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Every year, more restaurants and food companies announce that they will sell only meat produced with minimal or no use of antibiotics. And every year, despite those pledges, more antibiotics are administered to the nation's swine, cattle and poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm534244.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">figures\u003c/a>, released this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, antibiotic sales for use on farm animals increased by 1 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year. The increase was slightly greater – 2 percent — for antibiotics used as human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA and other public health agencies have been pushing farmers to rely less on these drugs. Heavy use of antibiotics both in human medicine and in agriculture has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, complicating the task of treating many infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the FDA finds a glimmer of good news in the latest figures, pointing out that the rate of increase has slowed. In the previous year, antibiotic use had increased by 4 percent, and a total of 22 percent from 2009 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry has made the most ambitious promises to reduce antibiotic use. Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/07/497033243/perdue-goes-almost-antibiotic-free\">says\u003c/a> that 95 percent of its chickens already are raised with no antibiotics at all. Tyson Foods, the largest producer, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/media/news-releases/2015/04/antibiotics-announcement.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that it is \"striving\" to end the use of antibiotics that also are used in human medicine. Tyson will continue to deploy a class of antibiotics called ionophores, which can't be used on humans. The new report, however, doesn't shed any light on the impact of these moves, because it doesn't show how much of each drug is used on cattle, swine or poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, David Wallinga, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that \"this report further underscores how urgently we need more and stronger government action\" to reduce antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Phillips, from the Animal Health Institute, which represents veterinary drug manufacturers, says that the FDA's data on drug sales tell us little about what's most important — whether the use of those drugs is leading to more drug-resistant bacteria. 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Some species of bacteria found on cattle have shown increasing levels of resistance to ciproflaxin, and turkey samples showed a big increase in Salmonella that's resistant to several different drugs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/114364/despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics","authors":["byline_bayareabites_114364"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_8914"],"featImg":"bayareabites_114365","label":"source_bayareabites_114364"},"bayareabites_79364":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_79364","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"79364","score":null,"sort":[1395426333000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-your-love-of-burgers-may-be-helping-to-drive-wildlife-extinct","title":"How Your Love Of Burgers May Be Helping To Drive Wildlife Extinct","publishDate":1395426333,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/hrose-2-_slide-873e05b0b4ee7098c8d5e52f1559a529e13d034e.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/hrose-2-_slide-873e05b0b4ee7098c8d5e52f1559a529e13d034e.jpg\" alt=\"Rancher Denny Johnson, looks over his cattle in Joseph, Ore., in 2011. Conservationists say ranchers raising beef cattle are responsible for the decline of some wildlife. Photo: Rick Bowmer/ASSOCIATED PRESS\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79365\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rancher Denny Johnson, looks over his cattle in Joseph, Ore., in 2011. Conservationists say ranchers raising beef cattle are responsible for the decline of some wildlife. Photo: Rick Bowmer/ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/21/291495523/how-your-love-of-burgers-may-be-helping-to-drive-wildlife-extinct\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/21/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many animal lovers have made peace with their decision to eat meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Center for Biological Diversity has a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/\">campaign\u003c/a> that hopes to persuade them that a hamburger habit does wildlife a disservice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see a drastic reduction in meat consumption to protect land, water and wildlife,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/staff/index.html\">Stephanie Feldstein\u003c/a>, population and sustainability director for the Center for Biological Diversity, tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservation group claims that some species of grizzly bears and wolves have already been driven extinct by the livestock industry, and another 175 threatened or endangered species, like the prairie dog, could be next. Most of this drama is playing out on federal lands, where the needs of wildlife conflict with the needs of grazing cattle, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has for decades promoted and subsidized cattle grazing on 270 million acres of public lands in 11 Western states. According to Feldstein, one of the hotspots of livestock-wildlife conflict is when predator species like wolves and bears prey on cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California grizzly, for example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/give/bene61/bene61story5.html\">was driven extinct\u003c/a> in the 1920s by hunters assisting farmers and ranchers, according to historical documents at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers also all but\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>wiped out the Mexican gray wolf, the most endangered wolf species in the world, in the U.S. (A few survived in Mexico and in zoos, and scientists have been trying to bring them back through breeding, the group Defenders of Wildlife \u003ca href=\"http://www.defenders.org/mexican-gray-wolf/mexican-gray-wolves-101\">says\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The anti-wolf policies we've seen are heavily driven by ranching interests, and while some populations of wolves are being rebuilt, they're still highly endangered,\" says Feldstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists aren't the only ones who've pinned the demise of some species on the livestock industry. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6167/1241484\">study\u003c/a> published in January in the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> linked the population declines of large carnivores — think pumas, lions, and sea otters — around the world to our growing demand for meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cattle industry has vigorously defended its right to kill wolves to protect the business interests of ranchers. As NPR's Nathan Rott \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/wolves/\">reported\u003c/a> in February, Montana state officials say wolves killed at least 67 cattle and 37 sheep in 2012, and many more elk. Losing those animals can be costly for ranchers: One calf can be worth $1,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main reason I hunt wolves is because I've seen what they do to other animals,\" Bruce Stell, a Montana outdoorsman and hunter, told Rott. \"They're killers. I want to do my part in managing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldstein says grazing cattle also degrade grassland habitat for the prairie dog, elk and many other threatened and endangered species. Grazing destroys vegetation and damages soils and stream banks, the CBD \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/meat_and_wildlife.html\">notes\u003c/a>. (As we've \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/24/report-meat-producers-ignore-pleas-for-health-environmental-reform/\">reported\u003c/a>, the livestock industry has been implicated in a number of other troubling ecological trends: greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change, water pollution and excessive waste, to name a few.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2010/04/08/125722082/the-truth-about-grass-fed-beef\">grass-fed\u003c/a> beef is a more \"sustainable\" choice, think again, says the CBD. Grazing cattle on grass has more negative impacts on the land than any other land use, the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/faq.html#organic\">says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, we could replace meat with plants, even one day a week. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/21/239126655/meatless-monday-movement-gets-more-veggies-on-the-menu\">Meatless Monday\u003c/a>, perhaps? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many meat-eating animal lovers may not realize that their hankering for hamburgers hurts wildlife. A conservation group says some species have already been driven extinct by the livestock industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1395426333,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":589},"headData":{"title":"How Your Love Of Burgers May Be Helping To Drive Wildlife Extinct | KQED","description":"Many meat-eating animal lovers may not realize that their hankering for hamburgers hurts wildlife. 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Conservationists say ranchers raising beef cattle are responsible for the decline of some wildlife. Photo: Rick Bowmer/ASSOCIATED PRESS\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79365\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rancher Denny Johnson, looks over his cattle in Joseph, Ore., in 2011. Conservationists say ranchers raising beef cattle are responsible for the decline of some wildlife. Photo: Rick Bowmer/ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/21/291495523/how-your-love-of-burgers-may-be-helping-to-drive-wildlife-extinct\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/21/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many animal lovers have made peace with their decision to eat meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Center for Biological Diversity has a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/\">campaign\u003c/a> that hopes to persuade them that a hamburger habit does wildlife a disservice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see a drastic reduction in meat consumption to protect land, water and wildlife,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/staff/index.html\">Stephanie Feldstein\u003c/a>, population and sustainability director for the Center for Biological Diversity, tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservation group claims that some species of grizzly bears and wolves have already been driven extinct by the livestock industry, and another 175 threatened or endangered species, like the prairie dog, could be next. Most of this drama is playing out on federal lands, where the needs of wildlife conflict with the needs of grazing cattle, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has for decades promoted and subsidized cattle grazing on 270 million acres of public lands in 11 Western states. According to Feldstein, one of the hotspots of livestock-wildlife conflict is when predator species like wolves and bears prey on cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California grizzly, for example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/give/bene61/bene61story5.html\">was driven extinct\u003c/a> in the 1920s by hunters assisting farmers and ranchers, according to historical documents at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranchers also all but\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>wiped out the Mexican gray wolf, the most endangered wolf species in the world, in the U.S. (A few survived in Mexico and in zoos, and scientists have been trying to bring them back through breeding, the group Defenders of Wildlife \u003ca href=\"http://www.defenders.org/mexican-gray-wolf/mexican-gray-wolves-101\">says\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The anti-wolf policies we've seen are heavily driven by ranching interests, and while some populations of wolves are being rebuilt, they're still highly endangered,\" says Feldstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists aren't the only ones who've pinned the demise of some species on the livestock industry. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6167/1241484\">study\u003c/a> published in January in the journal \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> linked the population declines of large carnivores — think pumas, lions, and sea otters — around the world to our growing demand for meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cattle industry has vigorously defended its right to kill wolves to protect the business interests of ranchers. As NPR's Nathan Rott \u003ca href=\"http://apps.npr.org/wolves/\">reported\u003c/a> in February, Montana state officials say wolves killed at least 67 cattle and 37 sheep in 2012, and many more elk. Losing those animals can be costly for ranchers: One calf can be worth $1,000 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main reason I hunt wolves is because I've seen what they do to other animals,\" Bruce Stell, a Montana outdoorsman and hunter, told Rott. \"They're killers. I want to do my part in managing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldstein says grazing cattle also degrade grassland habitat for the prairie dog, elk and many other threatened and endangered species. Grazing destroys vegetation and damages soils and stream banks, the CBD \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/meat_and_wildlife.html\">notes\u003c/a>. (As we've \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/24/report-meat-producers-ignore-pleas-for-health-environmental-reform/\">reported\u003c/a>, the livestock industry has been implicated in a number of other troubling ecological trends: greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change, water pollution and excessive waste, to name a few.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2010/04/08/125722082/the-truth-about-grass-fed-beef\">grass-fed\u003c/a> beef is a more \"sustainable\" choice, think again, says the CBD. Grazing cattle on grass has more negative impacts on the land than any other land use, the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/faq.html#organic\">says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, we could replace meat with plants, even one day a week. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/21/239126655/meatless-monday-movement-gets-more-veggies-on-the-menu\">Meatless Monday\u003c/a>, perhaps? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/79364/how-your-love-of-burgers-may-be-helping-to-drive-wildlife-extinct","authors":["byline_bayareabites_79364"],"categories":["bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_13190","bayareabites_13189","bayareabites_13188","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_243","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_13187"],"featImg":"bayareabites_79373","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_79273":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_79273","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"79273","score":null,"sort":[1395270954000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"could-our-food-supply-be-a-target-for-terrorists","title":"Could Our Food Supply Be A Target For Terrorists?","publishDate":1395270954,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1673px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/hires-copy_wide-b9646207396ccab1fa3fd0f760ae294f2342c39e.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/hires-copy_wide-b9646207396ccab1fa3fd0f760ae294f2342c39e.jpg\" alt=\"Few livestock owners consider their operations targets of terrorism. And that mindset could leave them vulnerable. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1673\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79274\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few livestock owners consider their operations targets of terrorism. And that mindset could leave them vulnerable. Photo: iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Luke Runyon, \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org/\">KUNC\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/19/290251928/could-our-food-supply-be-a-target-for-terrorists\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/19/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: Villains bent on chaos set their sights on a food company — an easy target — with plans to lace its products with a chemical or pathogen. The hero finds out in time to save the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sound far-fetched? Not according to U.S. regulators who have been pondering such scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2013-N-1425-0002\">new proposed rules\u003c/a> from the Food and Drug Administration, food processors and manufacturers – both domestic and companies abroad that ship food to the U.S. – would need to take steps to mitigate a potential terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few documented incidents of malicious food contamination exist, though, which raises the question: Is food terrorism fact or fiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Sept. 11, the U.S. government spent years, and billions of dollars, fortifying various industries against possible terrorist attacks. And since then, the United States has seen its fair share of terrorist attacks, including the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the food system has remained relatively untouched, \"we've certainly studied it since 9/11 to assess what the potential impacts might be,\" says Don Kraemer, deputy director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. \"And they can be catastrophic,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA rules \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/UCM379548.pdf\">focus on weak links\u003c/a> in food processing and manufacturing in an attempt to ferret out where the vulnerabilities exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules mostly apply to facilities in charge of bulk storage or handling of liquids for human consumption – think dairy plants where milk is stored in big vats. Another area of concern? Facilities like large, industrial bakeries where lots of ingredients are mixed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of food processing manufacturers don't practice rigid biosecurity,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/about/people/c/chalk_peter.html\">Peter Chalk,\u003c/a> a terrorism analyst with the RAND Corporation, a policy think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many food companies fail to take even the most basic precaution, he says. Owners don't padlock warehouses or engage in sufficient surveillance. Or they hire a lot of transient workers without performing background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So actually, introducing a contaminant — salmonella, botulism, mercury — into the food chain would not be particularly difficult,\" Chalk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak links, though, haven't really been tested. The last big bioterror attack in the U.S. happened in 1984 in The Dalles, Ore. That's when members of a cult infected salad bars with salmonella; more than 700 people were sickened. Since then, the American food system has grappled more with unintentional outbreaks, like the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/14/listeria-outbreak-still-haunts-colorados-cantaloupe-growers/\">listeria-laden cantaloupe\u003c/a> that killed 33 people in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would the FDA's proposed rules keep us safe? Chalk says the vulnerabilities go well beyond what's covered in the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producers could be at risk as well, he says. It would be relatively easy to deal a devastating blow to the country's livestock industry with a virus in a vial. An act of agroterrorism like that keeps some food experts up at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a terrorist wanted to deal a devastating economic blow to the U.S., all it would take is a calculated release of foot-and-mouth disease on the nation's livestock. Unintentional outbreaks in Europe and South America have haunted economies there, as trade is shut down and whole herds are culled to quarantine the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of a deliberate outbreak in the U.S. could be huge. One risk assessment from the Department of Homeland Security found that if a pathogen like foot-and-mouth disease were let loose among Great Plains ranchers, total damages could exceed $50 billion. Exports and trade could be cut off, and consumer demand would likely take a huge hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When U.S. troops raided an al-Qaida storehouse in Afghanistan in 2002, they found \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/february-2012/agroterrorism\">documents detailing ways to attack American agriculture\u003c/a> in order to deal a blow to the U.S. economy. Still, no attack has materialized in the 12 years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agriculture is critical infrastructure in a country,\" says Keith Roehr, Colorado's state veterinarian. \"How would we eradicate the disease? We don't know. ... We know there would be steps we would take. Do we know exactly what these would be? No, we don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet few livestock owners consider their operations targets of terrorism, Roehr says. And that mindset could leave them vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts suspect that the bigger reason the U.S. has avoided a large-scale attack on food and farms is that an attack like that doesn't carry the same weight as a suicide bombing or mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It lacks a visible point for the media to latch onto, [except for] the possible images of burning cows,\" Chalk says. \"Really, it doesn't have the same blood lust appeal of carrying out a suicide attack in a shopping mall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's a risk that government regulators want the food industry to consider more seriously, in case what seems like a grisly fiction turns into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/could-our-food-supply-be-target-terrorists\">A version of this post\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> first appeared on the Harvest Public Media website.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org\">KUNC-FM\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Terrorists haven't hit our food supply – yet. But there are major vulnerabilities, from food processing plants to cattle ranching. U.S. regulators want the industry to start taking the risk seriously.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1395270954,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":872},"headData":{"title":"Could Our Food Supply Be A Target For Terrorists? | KQED","description":"Terrorists haven't hit our food supply – yet. But there are major vulnerabilities, from food processing plants to cattle ranching. 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And that mindset could leave them vulnerable. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1673\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79274\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few livestock owners consider their operations targets of terrorism. And that mindset could leave them vulnerable. Photo: iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Luke Runyon, \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org/\">KUNC\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/19/290251928/could-our-food-supply-be-a-target-for-terrorists\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/19/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: Villains bent on chaos set their sights on a food company — an easy target — with plans to lace its products with a chemical or pathogen. The hero finds out in time to save the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sound far-fetched? Not according to U.S. regulators who have been pondering such scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA-2013-N-1425-0002\">new proposed rules\u003c/a> from the Food and Drug Administration, food processors and manufacturers – both domestic and companies abroad that ship food to the U.S. – would need to take steps to mitigate a potential terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few documented incidents of malicious food contamination exist, though, which raises the question: Is food terrorism fact or fiction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of Sept. 11, the U.S. government spent years, and billions of dollars, fortifying various industries against possible terrorist attacks. And since then, the United States has seen its fair share of terrorist attacks, including the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the food system has remained relatively untouched, \"we've certainly studied it since 9/11 to assess what the potential impacts might be,\" says Don Kraemer, deputy director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. \"And they can be catastrophic,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA rules \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/UCM379548.pdf\">focus on weak links\u003c/a> in food processing and manufacturing in an attempt to ferret out where the vulnerabilities exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules mostly apply to facilities in charge of bulk storage or handling of liquids for human consumption – think dairy plants where milk is stored in big vats. Another area of concern? Facilities like large, industrial bakeries where lots of ingredients are mixed together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of food processing manufacturers don't practice rigid biosecurity,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/about/people/c/chalk_peter.html\">Peter Chalk,\u003c/a> a terrorism analyst with the RAND Corporation, a policy think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many food companies fail to take even the most basic precaution, he says. Owners don't padlock warehouses or engage in sufficient surveillance. Or they hire a lot of transient workers without performing background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So actually, introducing a contaminant — salmonella, botulism, mercury — into the food chain would not be particularly difficult,\" Chalk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weak links, though, haven't really been tested. The last big bioterror attack in the U.S. happened in 1984 in The Dalles, Ore. That's when members of a cult infected salad bars with salmonella; more than 700 people were sickened. Since then, the American food system has grappled more with unintentional outbreaks, like the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/14/listeria-outbreak-still-haunts-colorados-cantaloupe-growers/\">listeria-laden cantaloupe\u003c/a> that killed 33 people in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would the FDA's proposed rules keep us safe? Chalk says the vulnerabilities go well beyond what's covered in the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Producers could be at risk as well, he says. It would be relatively easy to deal a devastating blow to the country's livestock industry with a virus in a vial. An act of agroterrorism like that keeps some food experts up at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a terrorist wanted to deal a devastating economic blow to the U.S., all it would take is a calculated release of foot-and-mouth disease on the nation's livestock. Unintentional outbreaks in Europe and South America have haunted economies there, as trade is shut down and whole herds are culled to quarantine the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of a deliberate outbreak in the U.S. could be huge. One risk assessment from the Department of Homeland Security found that if a pathogen like foot-and-mouth disease were let loose among Great Plains ranchers, total damages could exceed $50 billion. Exports and trade could be cut off, and consumer demand would likely take a huge hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When U.S. troops raided an al-Qaida storehouse in Afghanistan in 2002, they found \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/february-2012/agroterrorism\">documents detailing ways to attack American agriculture\u003c/a> in order to deal a blow to the U.S. economy. Still, no attack has materialized in the 12 years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agriculture is critical infrastructure in a country,\" says Keith Roehr, Colorado's state veterinarian. \"How would we eradicate the disease? We don't know. ... We know there would be steps we would take. Do we know exactly what these would be? No, we don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet few livestock owners consider their operations targets of terrorism, Roehr says. And that mindset could leave them vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts suspect that the bigger reason the U.S. has avoided a large-scale attack on food and farms is that an attack like that doesn't carry the same weight as a suicide bombing or mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It lacks a visible point for the media to latch onto, [except for] the possible images of burning cows,\" Chalk says. \"Really, it doesn't have the same blood lust appeal of carrying out a suicide attack in a shopping mall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's a risk that government regulators want the food industry to consider more seriously, in case what seems like a grisly fiction turns into reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/could-our-food-supply-be-target-terrorists\">A version of this post\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> first appeared on the Harvest Public Media website.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org\">KUNC-FM\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/79273/could-our-food-supply-be-a-target-for-terrorists","authors":["byline_bayareabites_79273"],"categories":["bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_13177","bayareabites_2608","bayareabites_13175","bayareabites_13176","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_13173","bayareabites_13174"],"featImg":"bayareabites_79280","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_75751":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_75751","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"75751","score":null,"sort":[1388164469000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed","title":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed","publishDate":1388164469,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\" alt=\"A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75752\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year was a busy one for the animal welfare activists who've turned their hidden cameras on confinement facilities where huge numbers of food animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestock producers — and the policymakers they influence — were just as busy trying to make it illegal for activists to enter these facilities undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, for the last several years, groups like the Humane Society of the U.S. and Mercy for Animals have caught some workers abusing animals red-handed. The groups say this abuse happens regularly out of view of the public and the law, and to expose it, they have to send in activists posing as ordinary workers, armed with video cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking videos made public have rankled animal agriculture groups, and strained their relationships with retailers. They \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhogfarmer.com/blog/when-bad-videos-happen-good-pork-producers\">typically respond\u003c/a> that the videos aren't representative — they merely show one employee, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Industry groups, in turn, have pressured legislators in several states to introduce measures intended to protect them from these kinds of incursions into their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colloquial term for this legislation is ag-gag. It refers to laws that make it illegal to photograph or shoot videos of internal operations of farms where food animals are being raised. And awareness of such laws is growing: \"Ag gag\" was featured as one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html\">words of the year\u003c/a> in Sunday's \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three states signed ag-gag bill into law in 2011 and 2012, setting new legal precedents. This year, a flurry of legislation — 15 ag-gag bills — was introduced in 11 states, but interestingly, \u003cem>not a single one passed.\u003c/em> (Indeed, in some states, more than one measure was introduced: Tennessee and Arkansas each had two, while Indiana had three.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What explains the failure of these bills, which either didn't get enough votes or were vetoed by governors? For details, we turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/about/leadership/subject_experts/matthew-dominguez.html\">Matt Dominguez\u003c/a>, who spent 2013 traveling around the U.S. fighting various ag-gag bills for the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dominguez, ag-gag laws failed this year because of a large and broad coalition opposing them that tapped its grass-roots network to hammer legislators with emails, phone calls and online campaigns. The coalition included animal welfare groups, of course, but also environmental groups like Food and Water Watch, and organizations that advocate for a free press, like the National Press Photographers Association, and legal issues, like the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition also had public opinion on its side. A 2012 nationwide \u003ca href=\"http://www.aspca.org/about-us/press-releases/aspca-research-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-investigations-expose\">poll\u003c/a> commissioned by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals showed that 71 percent of Americans support undercover investigative efforts by animal welfare organizations to expose animal abuse on industrial farms, and 64 percent oppose making such efforts illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another advantage was high-profile media coverage from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms\"> Mother Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists?src=longreads\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>, plus dozens of editorials in newspapers condemning ag-gag, says Dominguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the vociferous opposition, the trend seems to be towards more bills, not fewer, especially if investigations continue to paint damaging portraits of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do an investigation that shows cruelty, and a legislator introduces one of these bills to criminalize investigations themselves,\" says Dominguez. He cited the example of the 2012 HSUS \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/wyoming_pig_investigation_050812.html#id=album-142&num=content-2668\">investigation\u003c/a> that showed workers throwing piglets at Wyoming Premium Farms, which prompted Wyoming state legislator Sue Wallis to introduce an ag-gag bill in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, says Dominguez, lawmakers are trying to find new ways to keep activists off the farm. The original ag-gag bills made it illegal to take photos and video, but now some states are instead attempting to pass mandatory reporting bills. They would require anyone who witnesses and videotapes abuse on a farm to turn recordings over to the state within 24 to 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like it would be pro-animal, but it means you can't document a series of abuses,\" Dominguez says. \"And then the industry can say, 'This is an isolated incident.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/11/a-legal-twist-in-the-effort-to-ban-cameras-from-livestock-plants/\">reported\u003c/a> earlier in the year, California introduced a measure that would have required that anyone who videotapes or records animal abuse turn over a copy of the evidence to police within 48 hours. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what might next year hold for animal activists fighting ag-gag laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez expects that 2014 will be a lot like 2013, and that 10 to 15 bills will come back in various states, since many legislators work on a two-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll likely come back in the states where we've been fighting, and in new states,\" says Dominguez. \"Lawmakers view it that they were beat by animal rights groups. They'll tweak the bills, make them more like animal protection bills to dupe the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This year, 15 bills in 11 states attempted to make undercover videos on farms illegal. Not a single one passed. Activists say a broad-based coalition that tapped the grass-roots concern for animal welfare helped defeat the measures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1388164469,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":855},"headData":{"title":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed | KQED","description":"This year, 15 bills in 11 states attempted to make undercover videos on farms illegal. Not a single one passed. Activists say a broad-based coalition that tapped the grass-roots concern for animal welfare helped defeat the measures.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed","datePublished":"2013-12-27T17:14:29.000Z","dateModified":"2013-12-27T17:14:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"75751 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=75751","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/12/27/2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed/","disqusTitle":"2013 Was The Year Bills To Criminalize Animal Cruelty Videos Failed","nprByline":"Eliza Barclay","nprStoryId":"255549796","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=255549796&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed?ft=3&f=255549796","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:52:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:39:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:52:19 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/75751/2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/pigs-fffe58b09c339d9d1e979a71f2aa749b25bbf20f.jpg\" alt=\"A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75752\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Humane Society investigation of a Wyoming pig breeding facility to the introduction of an ag-gag bill in Wyoming, which eventually failed. Photo: Courtesy of Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/19/255549796/2013-was-the-year-every-new-ag-gag-bill-failed\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/27/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The past year was a busy one for the animal welfare activists who've turned their hidden cameras on confinement facilities where huge numbers of food animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livestock producers — and the policymakers they influence — were just as busy trying to make it illegal for activists to enter these facilities undercover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, for the last several years, groups like the Humane Society of the U.S. and Mercy for Animals have caught some workers abusing animals red-handed. The groups say this abuse happens regularly out of view of the public and the law, and to expose it, they have to send in activists posing as ordinary workers, armed with video cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking videos made public have rankled animal agriculture groups, and strained their relationships with retailers. They \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhogfarmer.com/blog/when-bad-videos-happen-good-pork-producers\">typically respond\u003c/a> that the videos aren't representative — they merely show one employee, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Industry groups, in turn, have pressured legislators in several states to introduce measures intended to protect them from these kinds of incursions into their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colloquial term for this legislation is ag-gag. It refers to laws that make it illegal to photograph or shoot videos of internal operations of farms where food animals are being raised. And awareness of such laws is growing: \"Ag gag\" was featured as one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/opinion/sunday/a-wordnado-of-words-in-2013.html\">words of the year\u003c/a> in Sunday's \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three states signed ag-gag bill into law in 2011 and 2012, setting new legal precedents. This year, a flurry of legislation — 15 ag-gag bills — was introduced in 11 states, but interestingly, \u003cem>not a single one passed.\u003c/em> (Indeed, in some states, more than one measure was introduced: Tennessee and Arkansas each had two, while Indiana had three.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What explains the failure of these bills, which either didn't get enough votes or were vetoed by governors? For details, we turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/about/leadership/subject_experts/matthew-dominguez.html\">Matt Dominguez\u003c/a>, who spent 2013 traveling around the U.S. fighting various ag-gag bills for the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dominguez, ag-gag laws failed this year because of a large and broad coalition opposing them that tapped its grass-roots network to hammer legislators with emails, phone calls and online campaigns. The coalition included animal welfare groups, of course, but also environmental groups like Food and Water Watch, and organizations that advocate for a free press, like the National Press Photographers Association, and legal issues, like the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition also had public opinion on its side. A 2012 nationwide \u003ca href=\"http://www.aspca.org/about-us/press-releases/aspca-research-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-investigations-expose\">poll\u003c/a> commissioned by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals showed that 71 percent of Americans support undercover investigative efforts by animal welfare organizations to expose animal abuse on industrial farms, and 64 percent oppose making such efforts illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another advantage was high-profile media coverage from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/us/taping-of-farm-cruelty-is-becoming-the-crime.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-mowmar-farms\"> Mother Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists?src=longreads\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>, plus dozens of editorials in newspapers condemning ag-gag, says Dominguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the vociferous opposition, the trend seems to be towards more bills, not fewer, especially if investigations continue to paint damaging portraits of the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do an investigation that shows cruelty, and a legislator introduces one of these bills to criminalize investigations themselves,\" says Dominguez. He cited the example of the 2012 HSUS \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/05/wyoming_pig_investigation_050812.html#id=album-142&num=content-2668\">investigation\u003c/a> that showed workers throwing piglets at Wyoming Premium Farms, which prompted Wyoming state legislator Sue Wallis to introduce an ag-gag bill in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, says Dominguez, lawmakers are trying to find new ways to keep activists off the farm. The original ag-gag bills made it illegal to take photos and video, but now some states are instead attempting to pass mandatory reporting bills. They would require anyone who witnesses and videotapes abuse on a farm to turn recordings over to the state within 24 to 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like it would be pro-animal, but it means you can't document a series of abuses,\" Dominguez says. \"And then the industry can say, 'This is an isolated incident.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/11/a-legal-twist-in-the-effort-to-ban-cameras-from-livestock-plants/\">reported\u003c/a> earlier in the year, California introduced a measure that would have required that anyone who videotapes or records animal abuse turn over a copy of the evidence to police within 48 hours. It failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what might next year hold for animal activists fighting ag-gag laws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dominguez expects that 2014 will be a lot like 2013, and that 10 to 15 bills will come back in various states, since many legislators work on a two-year cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They'll likely come back in the states where we've been fighting, and in new states,\" says Dominguez. \"Lawmakers view it that they were beat by animal rights groups. They'll tweak the bills, make them more like animal protection bills to dupe the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/75751/2013-was-the-year-bills-to-criminalize-animal-cruelty-videos-failed","authors":["byline_bayareabites_75751"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11540","bayareabites_11539","bayareabites_12575","bayareabites_9887","bayareabites_99","bayareabites_12850","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_75759","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_75219":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_75219","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"75219","score":null,"sort":[1387300470000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"industrial-meat-bad-small-farm-good-its-not-so-simple","title":"Industrial Meat Bad, Small Farm Good? It's Not So Simple","publishDate":1387300470,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/kenya-e78018b5d9656a9bf3a772f79d13f965003ca9bf-e1387300166749.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/kenya-e78018b5d9656a9bf3a772f79d13f965003ca9bf-e1387300166749.jpg\" alt=\"Somali refugees lead their herds of goats home for the night outside Dadaab, Kenya. A new study shows that animals in many parts of the developing world require more food — and generate more greenhouse emissions — than animals in wealthy countries. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75220\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somali refugees lead their herds of goats home for the night outside Dadaab, Kenya. A new study shows that animals in many parts of the developing world require more food — and generate more greenhouse emissions — than animals in wealthy countries. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/16/251611230/big-meat-bad-small-farm-good-it-s-not-so-simple\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To feed all 7 billion of us, address climate change and live longer, we all need to eat less meat. From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/11/26/al-gore-goes-vegan-following-in-footsteps-of-bill-clinton/\">Al Gore\u003c/a> to the Meatless Monday movement to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/12/148457233/death-by-bacon-study-finds-eating-meat-is-risky\">Harvard epidemiologists\u003c/a>, that's been the resounding advice offered to consumers lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hold up a minute, says \u003ca href=\"http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_vmjCiYAAAAJ&hl=en\">Mario Herrero\u003c/a>, the chief research scientist at Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO. Writing off food animals as greedy, inefficient polluters of land and water, artery cloggers and robbers of food from the mouths of hungry babes is perhaps a bit brash, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it's important to see the global livestock sector as a super diverse system of tiny backyards and massive feedlots that defies generalizations, Herrero tells The Salt. Shifting to this view is becoming more and more important as we plan for a future of 9 billion people on Earth by mid-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also one of the takeaways of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/12/1308149110\">assessment of global livestock systems\u003c/a> by Herrero published Monday in the \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. \u003c/em>Inside the vast dataset are new calculations of how livestock use land, how efficiently they convert feed into food for humans and their greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the range of human nutritional needs and the different ways of raising livestock, Herrero and co-authors argue, decisions about how to make meat and milk production more sustainable should probably be local ones. In other words, there's no \"one-size-fits-all\" blueprint for sustainability for farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because when it comes to raising livestock, the contradictions abound, the authors note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example? While animals provide nutrients for farmers' crops (think \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/21/246386290/organic-farmers-bash-fda-restrictions-on-manure-use\">manure\u003c/a>), their waste also pollutes the land and water. While grazing animals can be beneficial to a grassland ecosystem, overgrazing can destroy it. Questions of health can be equally complex: Animal milk and meat are critically important sources of protein and other nutrients for many people – especially the poor – but they also contribute to obesity and chronic disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this means is that a cattleman raising 10 cows on cruddy grassland in Zambia and the manager of a major Kansas feedlot have starkly different priorities when it comes to how they manage resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the authors say the same goes for consumer choices about animal products in rich countries versus those in poor countries: While most Americans could forgo a third serving of bacon for the week, mothers in Cambodia may very well need to seek out more milk and chicken for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that nuanced global perspective is missing from the conversation about meat production, Hererro says. When we think about the global environmental impacts, we tend to imagine industrial U.S. cattle or hog producers spewing emissions and waste into the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the \u003cem>PNAS\u003c/em> paper, smaller producers in the developing world account for the most emissions from livestock, including 75 percent of emissions from cattle and other ruminants (like goats) and 56 percent from poultry and pigs. That's mainly because of the sheer number of animals — millions more than those raised in Europe and the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it's harder to feed animals, they also produce more emissions. For example, cattle scrounging for food in arid East Africa might release the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of carbon for every pound of protein they produce. Compare that with many parts of the U.S. and Europe, where a cow might generate about 10 pounds of carbon per pound of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper also reminds us that India is the world's biggest producer of milk and China, the largest producer of pork. Asia accounts for 55 percent of global pork production, dwarfing Europe (26 percent) and the U.S. (17 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The developing world is where the demand is growing the most, and it's also where we need to find better solutions for protecting resources,\" Herrero tells The Salt. That's going to mean getting more meat and milk out of each animal, with better feed on better managed land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that everywhere, smaller livestock like pigs and poultry convert feed into protein more efficiently — and have a smaller impact on the climate — than beef and dairy cows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might suggest that for maximum efficiency (and fewer emissions), we should focus on getting protein mainly from pigs and chickens. But as Herrero argues, there's a big tradeoff there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pigs and poultry may be reservoirs of [diseases that can be transmitted to humans], like the flu, so we really need systems diversity,\" says Herrero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all this complexity, what's a conscientious consumer to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though choosing to eat less meat won't dismantle industrial meat or stem the rising number of livestock animals on Earth, it still makes sense for consumers in the developed world, Herrero says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we account for how much we consume in general terms — and the fact that we are responsible for most of the world's carbon dioxide emissions — then we should modify our diets and eat fewer animals products, if we can,\" he says. \"We have a higher responsibility, because we are the ones that can make that choice.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When it comes to making livestock agriculture more sustainable, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. That's the conclusion of a study of livestock around the world.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1387300470,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":932},"headData":{"title":"Industrial Meat Bad, Small Farm Good? It's Not So Simple | KQED","description":"When it comes to making livestock agriculture more sustainable, there's no one-size-fits-all approach. That's the conclusion of a study of livestock around the world.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Industrial Meat Bad, Small Farm Good? 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It's Not So Simple","nprByline":"Eliza Barclay","nprStoryId":"251611230","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=251611230&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/16/251611230/big-meat-bad-small-farm-good-it-s-not-so-simple?ft=3&f=251611230","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:53:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:01:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:03:31 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/75219/industrial-meat-bad-small-farm-good-its-not-so-simple","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/kenya-e78018b5d9656a9bf3a772f79d13f965003ca9bf-e1387300166749.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/kenya-e78018b5d9656a9bf3a772f79d13f965003ca9bf-e1387300166749.jpg\" alt=\"Somali refugees lead their herds of goats home for the night outside Dadaab, Kenya. A new study shows that animals in many parts of the developing world require more food — and generate more greenhouse emissions — than animals in wealthy countries. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75220\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somali refugees lead their herds of goats home for the night outside Dadaab, Kenya. A new study shows that animals in many parts of the developing world require more food — and generate more greenhouse emissions — than animals in wealthy countries. Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/16/251611230/big-meat-bad-small-farm-good-it-s-not-so-simple\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To feed all 7 billion of us, address climate change and live longer, we all need to eat less meat. From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/11/26/al-gore-goes-vegan-following-in-footsteps-of-bill-clinton/\">Al Gore\u003c/a> to the Meatless Monday movement to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/12/148457233/death-by-bacon-study-finds-eating-meat-is-risky\">Harvard epidemiologists\u003c/a>, that's been the resounding advice offered to consumers lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hold up a minute, says \u003ca href=\"http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_vmjCiYAAAAJ&hl=en\">Mario Herrero\u003c/a>, the chief research scientist at Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO. Writing off food animals as greedy, inefficient polluters of land and water, artery cloggers and robbers of food from the mouths of hungry babes is perhaps a bit brash, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, it's important to see the global livestock sector as a super diverse system of tiny backyards and massive feedlots that defies generalizations, Herrero tells The Salt. Shifting to this view is becoming more and more important as we plan for a future of 9 billion people on Earth by mid-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also one of the takeaways of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/12/1308149110\">assessment of global livestock systems\u003c/a> by Herrero published Monday in the \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. \u003c/em>Inside the vast dataset are new calculations of how livestock use land, how efficiently they convert feed into food for humans and their greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the range of human nutritional needs and the different ways of raising livestock, Herrero and co-authors argue, decisions about how to make meat and milk production more sustainable should probably be local ones. In other words, there's no \"one-size-fits-all\" blueprint for sustainability for farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because when it comes to raising livestock, the contradictions abound, the authors note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example? While animals provide nutrients for farmers' crops (think \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/21/246386290/organic-farmers-bash-fda-restrictions-on-manure-use\">manure\u003c/a>), their waste also pollutes the land and water. While grazing animals can be beneficial to a grassland ecosystem, overgrazing can destroy it. Questions of health can be equally complex: Animal milk and meat are critically important sources of protein and other nutrients for many people – especially the poor – but they also contribute to obesity and chronic disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this means is that a cattleman raising 10 cows on cruddy grassland in Zambia and the manager of a major Kansas feedlot have starkly different priorities when it comes to how they manage resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the authors say the same goes for consumer choices about animal products in rich countries versus those in poor countries: While most Americans could forgo a third serving of bacon for the week, mothers in Cambodia may very well need to seek out more milk and chicken for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that nuanced global perspective is missing from the conversation about meat production, Hererro says. When we think about the global environmental impacts, we tend to imagine industrial U.S. cattle or hog producers spewing emissions and waste into the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the \u003cem>PNAS\u003c/em> paper, smaller producers in the developing world account for the most emissions from livestock, including 75 percent of emissions from cattle and other ruminants (like goats) and 56 percent from poultry and pigs. That's mainly because of the sheer number of animals — millions more than those raised in Europe and the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it's harder to feed animals, they also produce more emissions. For example, cattle scrounging for food in arid East Africa might release the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of carbon for every pound of protein they produce. Compare that with many parts of the U.S. and Europe, where a cow might generate about 10 pounds of carbon per pound of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper also reminds us that India is the world's biggest producer of milk and China, the largest producer of pork. Asia accounts for 55 percent of global pork production, dwarfing Europe (26 percent) and the U.S. (17 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The developing world is where the demand is growing the most, and it's also where we need to find better solutions for protecting resources,\" Herrero tells The Salt. That's going to mean getting more meat and milk out of each animal, with better feed on better managed land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that everywhere, smaller livestock like pigs and poultry convert feed into protein more efficiently — and have a smaller impact on the climate — than beef and dairy cows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might suggest that for maximum efficiency (and fewer emissions), we should focus on getting protein mainly from pigs and chickens. But as Herrero argues, there's a big tradeoff there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pigs and poultry may be reservoirs of [diseases that can be transmitted to humans], like the flu, so we really need systems diversity,\" says Herrero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all this complexity, what's a conscientious consumer to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though choosing to eat less meat won't dismantle industrial meat or stem the rising number of livestock animals on Earth, it still makes sense for consumers in the developed world, Herrero says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we account for how much we consume in general terms — and the fact that we are responsible for most of the world's carbon dioxide emissions — then we should modify our diets and eat fewer animals products, if we can,\" he says. \"We have a higher responsibility, because we are the ones that can make that choice.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/75219/industrial-meat-bad-small-farm-good-its-not-so-simple","authors":["byline_bayareabites_75219"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_12808","bayareabites_836","bayareabites_12807","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_243","bayareabites_2613","bayareabites_12790","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_75220","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_75012":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_75012","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"75012","score":null,"sort":[1386866662000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses","title":"Drug Companies Accept FDA Plan To Phase Out Some Animal Antibiotic Uses","publishDate":1386866662,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_75013\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 638px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/chicken1-374076b43c0c1b307abe88569871d6f9591212ad.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/chicken1-374076b43c0c1b307abe88569871d6f9591212ad.jpg\" alt=\"Young broilers nibble feed at a chicken farm in Luling, Texas. The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidance on how drug companies label antibiotics for livestock. Photo: Bob Nichols/USDA/Flickr\" width=\"638\" height=\"478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75013\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young broilers nibble feed at a chicken farm in Luling, Texas. The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidance on how drug companies label antibiotics for livestock. Photo: Bob Nichols/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/9682284804/in/photostream/\">USDA/Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/12/20131211_atc_14.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If drug companies follow \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378100.htm\">guidance\u003c/a> issued Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, within three years it will be illegal to use medically important antibiotics to make farm animals grow faster or use feed more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA's announcement wasn't a big surprise; a draft version of the strategy was released more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger news is that the two biggest veterinary drug companies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elanco.us/\">Elanco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.zoetis.com/\">Zoetis\u003c/a>, said Wednesday that they will, in fact, follow the FDA's advice and make it illegal for farmers to use their drugs for growth promotion. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ahi.org/\">Animal Health Institute\u003c/a>, which represents most of the industry, likewise expressed enthusiastic support for the FDA's move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's announcement is the latest step in a long-running, sometimes convoluted effort by the FDA to reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture. As we've reported in our series \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=243035549\">Pharmed Food\u003c/a>, public health advocates are concerned that livestock producers' widespread use of antibiotics could lead to more drug-resistant bacteria, first in animals and eventually infecting people. They're especially concerned about the industry's practice of giving animals low doses of the drugs when they're not sick to make them put on weight faster. Those low doses are more likely to create resistance than high doses for animals that are sick, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the newly official guidance, the FDA is hoping to reduce the \"subtherapeutic\" use by revising drug labels, which define the legal uses of each drug. The FDA is asking companies to remove \"growth promotion\" or \"feed efficiency\" as a legal use of any drug that is also used in human medicine. If those uses do not appear on the label, farmers can no longer legally use the drug for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label changes are supposed to happen within three years. Companies have 90 days to say whether they intend to do this or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA's announcement inspired diverse reactions. The Animal Health Institute, which has downplayed the risks of farm antibiotic use, promised to support the FDA's initiative — in part for public relations reasons. The AHI's Richard Carnevale told reporters in a conference call that it could help to dispel the common, but incorrect, belief that growth promotion accounts for most antibiotic use in agriculture. He says that most antibiotics are used to prevent or treat disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's impossible to know how many of the antibiotics that farmers use are for growth promotion. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216874940/with-no-data-on-antibiotic-use-on-the-farm-are-we-flying-blind\">doesn't collect\u003c/a> that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of antibiotic use on the farm condemned the FDA strategy for not going far enough. The \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/akar/fda_announces_finalization_of.html\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a> called it \"a free pass to industry\" because it relies on voluntary cooperation, rather than binding regulations. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/news_events/announcement/2013/FDA-Voluntary-Guidelines-Antibiotics-Fail-Protect-Public-Health.html\">Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future\u003c/a> predicted that the relabeling exercise will fail to reduce antibiotic use because farmers may just continue to give animals the drugs at low doses for \"disease prevention\" instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public health advocates were cautiously optimistic. Laura Rogers, who directs the Pew Charitable Trusts' human health and industrial farming \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhealth.org/projects/pew-campaign-on-human-health-and-industrial-farming-85899367226\">campaign\u003c/a>, called it a promising start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterinarians will play a key role in enforcing the new labels and making sure that antibiotics aren't used to promote growth under the guise of disease prevention. They also may be required to sign off on all uses of medically important drugs, if another draft regulation released Wednesday is adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, many of these drugs, such as tetracycline, are available over the counter for farm animals. If the FDA caught a veterinarian prescribing these drugs for growth promotion purposes, that veterinarian could lose his or her license. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday advised companies to change the labels on their drugs to make it illegal for livestock producers to use drugs for \"growth promotion\" or \"feed efficiency.\" The announcement is the latest step in a long-running effort by the FDA to reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1386866662,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":683},"headData":{"title":"Drug Companies Accept FDA Plan To Phase Out Some Animal Antibiotic Uses | KQED","description":"The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday advised companies to change the labels on their drugs to make it illegal for livestock producers to use drugs for "growth promotion" or "feed efficiency." 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The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidance on how drug companies label antibiotics for livestock. Photo: Bob Nichols/USDA/Flickr\" width=\"638\" height=\"478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75013\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young broilers nibble feed at a chicken farm in Luling, Texas. The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidance on how drug companies label antibiotics for livestock. Photo: Bob Nichols/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/9682284804/in/photostream/\">USDA/Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/12/20131211_atc_14.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If drug companies follow \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378100.htm\">guidance\u003c/a> issued Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, within three years it will be illegal to use medically important antibiotics to make farm animals grow faster or use feed more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA's announcement wasn't a big surprise; a draft version of the strategy was released more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger news is that the two biggest veterinary drug companies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.elanco.us/\">Elanco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.zoetis.com/\">Zoetis\u003c/a>, said Wednesday that they will, in fact, follow the FDA's advice and make it illegal for farmers to use their drugs for growth promotion. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ahi.org/\">Animal Health Institute\u003c/a>, which represents most of the industry, likewise expressed enthusiastic support for the FDA's move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's announcement is the latest step in a long-running, sometimes convoluted effort by the FDA to reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture. As we've reported in our series \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=243035549\">Pharmed Food\u003c/a>, public health advocates are concerned that livestock producers' widespread use of antibiotics could lead to more drug-resistant bacteria, first in animals and eventually infecting people. They're especially concerned about the industry's practice of giving animals low doses of the drugs when they're not sick to make them put on weight faster. Those low doses are more likely to create resistance than high doses for animals that are sick, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the newly official guidance, the FDA is hoping to reduce the \"subtherapeutic\" use by revising drug labels, which define the legal uses of each drug. The FDA is asking companies to remove \"growth promotion\" or \"feed efficiency\" as a legal use of any drug that is also used in human medicine. If those uses do not appear on the label, farmers can no longer legally use the drug for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The label changes are supposed to happen within three years. Companies have 90 days to say whether they intend to do this or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA's announcement inspired diverse reactions. The Animal Health Institute, which has downplayed the risks of farm antibiotic use, promised to support the FDA's initiative — in part for public relations reasons. The AHI's Richard Carnevale told reporters in a conference call that it could help to dispel the common, but incorrect, belief that growth promotion accounts for most antibiotic use in agriculture. He says that most antibiotics are used to prevent or treat disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's impossible to know how many of the antibiotics that farmers use are for growth promotion. The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216874940/with-no-data-on-antibiotic-use-on-the-farm-are-we-flying-blind\">doesn't collect\u003c/a> that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of antibiotic use on the farm condemned the FDA strategy for not going far enough. The \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/akar/fda_announces_finalization_of.html\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a> called it \"a free pass to industry\" because it relies on voluntary cooperation, rather than binding regulations. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/news_events/announcement/2013/FDA-Voluntary-Guidelines-Antibiotics-Fail-Protect-Public-Health.html\">Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future\u003c/a> predicted that the relabeling exercise will fail to reduce antibiotic use because farmers may just continue to give animals the drugs at low doses for \"disease prevention\" instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public health advocates were cautiously optimistic. Laura Rogers, who directs the Pew Charitable Trusts' human health and industrial farming \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhealth.org/projects/pew-campaign-on-human-health-and-industrial-farming-85899367226\">campaign\u003c/a>, called it a promising start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterinarians will play a key role in enforcing the new labels and making sure that antibiotics aren't used to promote growth under the guise of disease prevention. They also may be required to sign off on all uses of medically important drugs, if another draft regulation released Wednesday is adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, many of these drugs, such as tetracycline, are available over the counter for farm animals. If the FDA caught a veterinarian prescribing these drugs for growth promotion purposes, that veterinarian could lose his or her license. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/75012/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses","authors":["byline_bayareabites_75012"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_129","bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_2608","bayareabites_8914","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_75013","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_69967":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_69967","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"69967","score":null,"sort":[1378937964000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter","title":"Pets Or Livestock? A Moral Divide Over Horse Slaughter","publishDate":1378937964,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/horse.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/horse.jpg\" alt=\"Jamesport has the largest Amish community in Missouri, and horses pulling buggies often park alongside cars. Horse owners in the state are divided over whether to allow horses to be killed for meat in the U.S. Photo: Frank Morris for NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"759\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69983\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamesport has the largest Amish community in Missouri, and horses pulling buggies often park alongside cars. Horse owners in the state are divided over whether to allow horses to be killed for meat in the U.S. Photo: Frank Morris for NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/09/20130911_atc_07.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Frank Morris, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://kcur.org/\">KCUR\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few Americans eat horse meat, and many don't like the idea of horses being slaughtered. But a handful of investors are struggling to restart a horse-slaughter industry in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of American horses \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/01/143017558/to-kill-or-not-to-kill-horses-that-others-may-eat\">are already slaughtered\u003c/a> for the European and Asian markets for horse meat each year in Mexico and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of reviving the U.S. slaughterhouses argue that they would be good for the horse business, and more humane than the current situation of shipping them across the borders. The issue cleaves horse owners into two camps: those that view horses as pets, and those who see them as livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'We Have Standards'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia MacPherson led efforts to kill two proposed horse slaughterhouses in southern Missouri. To her, it would be like slaughtering pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you said, 'I'm going to open a puppy mill to breed dogs because people in China and people in France want to eat dog meat,' I think there'd be a big public outcry. And that's what we have here,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opposition has hounded horse slaughter since Congress funded \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">inspections\u003c/a> for it a couple of years ago. U.S. Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle argues that horses suffer more than other animals at slaughter. He also contends that the meat is dangerous, since horses can be treated with drugs not allowed in animals raised specifically for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have standards. We have values in society. You don't just opportunistically harvest whatever animal is around,\" Pacelle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assets or Pets?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Wallis, a Wyoming lawmaker with a dozen horses, says there are two \"very different styles\" of meat production going on. She says fattening up animals fast — and slaughtering them young — is the modern way to produce meat. Horse slaughter, she says, follows an older model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chickens for eggs, lambs for wool, cows for milk, horses for work, and when their useful, productive life has passed, then you turn them into meat,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wallis, horses are livestock first and companions second — more assets than pets. And that's common in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jamesport, Mo., horse-drawn buggies park next to cars. Elmer Beechy, a wiry man sporting a faded black hat and a beard, runs a shop that sells horse equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really love horses. But when they're no good to me, what are you going to do with them? We don't want to take 'em out back and shoot 'em,\" he says. \"They may just as well be slaughtered, and get some use out of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat for horse eaters, money for horse owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they were shut down, domestic slaughterhouses provided a ready market for old, hobbled or unruly steeds. It made horses more valuable. Beechy says shutting it down has spurred a glut of unwanted and neglected animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of horses out there in the pasture, hurting. Some of them linger three or four years, suffer every day. And the slaughter's the best place for them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic slaughter, he means. The long hauls to slaughter plants in Canada and Mexico can brutalize the animals, and burn up the seller's profit. So thousands of horses have just been abandoned on Indian reservations, cow pastures and public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People will just stop and open the trailer and turn 'em out and drive off,\" says Jim Smith, who maintains a wild horse refuge in the Missouri Ozarks. As far as he's is concerned, the solution lies in opening what he calls \"killer plants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In The Market\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Rains shows off his home-made \"knock box,\" a lightly padded steel cage built to confine a horse that's about to be shot in the head. Necessary business, he says, but not work he's looking forward to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard, but it's a better end than a slow, painful death, and that's what a lot of these horses are going through right now,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain's finances are suffering, too. He built this plant on the corner of his farm near Jamesport to process naturally raised beef and pork. 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Investors argue restarting the practice in the U.S. would be better for business and offer a more humane end for horses who are neglected under the current model.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1378937964,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":890},"headData":{"title":"Pets Or Livestock? A Moral Divide Over Horse Slaughter | KQED","description":"Horse slaughter is banned in the U.S., but thousands of American horses are shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter every year. Investors argue restarting the practice in the U.S. would be better for business and offer a more humane end for horses who are neglected under the current model.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Pets Or Livestock? 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Horse owners in the state are divided over whether to allow horses to be killed for meat in the U.S. Photo: Frank Morris for NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/09/20130911_atc_07.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Frank Morris, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://kcur.org/\">KCUR\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/11/221371617/pets-or-livestock-a-moral-divide-over-horse-slaughter\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few Americans eat horse meat, and many don't like the idea of horses being slaughtered. 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And that's what we have here,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opposition has hounded horse slaughter since Congress funded \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/17/150833468/plan-to-slaughter-horses-for-human-consumption-is-met-with-distaste\">inspections\u003c/a> for it a couple of years ago. U.S. Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle argues that horses suffer more than other animals at slaughter. He also contends that the meat is dangerous, since horses can be treated with drugs not allowed in animals raised specifically for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have standards. We have values in society. You don't just opportunistically harvest whatever animal is around,\" Pacelle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assets or Pets?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Wallis, a Wyoming lawmaker with a dozen horses, says there are two \"very different styles\" of meat production going on. She says fattening up animals fast — and slaughtering them young — is the modern way to produce meat. Horse slaughter, she says, follows an older model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chickens for eggs, lambs for wool, cows for milk, horses for work, and when their useful, productive life has passed, then you turn them into meat,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Wallis, horses are livestock first and companions second — more assets than pets. And that's common in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jamesport, Mo., horse-drawn buggies park next to cars. Elmer Beechy, a wiry man sporting a faded black hat and a beard, runs a shop that sells horse equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really love horses. But when they're no good to me, what are you going to do with them? We don't want to take 'em out back and shoot 'em,\" he says. \"They may just as well be slaughtered, and get some use out of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meat for horse eaters, money for horse owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they were shut down, domestic slaughterhouses provided a ready market for old, hobbled or unruly steeds. It made horses more valuable. Beechy says shutting it down has spurred a glut of unwanted and neglected animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of horses out there in the pasture, hurting. Some of them linger three or four years, suffer every day. And the slaughter's the best place for them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic slaughter, he means. The long hauls to slaughter plants in Canada and Mexico can brutalize the animals, and burn up the seller's profit. 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